The South East Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate

拟议的SEAGEP计划包括作为牵头机构的佛罗里达大学(UF)和两个主要合作伙伴。克莱姆森大学和南卡罗来纳大学。SEAGEP联合了三所广泛研究的机构，这三所机构在50多个STEM领域提供博士学位，提供无与伦比的研究生学习机会。2002年，这些机构的STEM研究生招生总数超过400人。次要合作伙伴是佛罗里达-佐治亚州路易斯·B·斯托克斯少数群体参与联盟(FGLSAMP)、南卡罗来纳州路易斯·B·斯托克斯少数群体参与联盟(SCAMP)和美属维尔京群岛大学。SEAGEP还将通过与拉丁美洲和加勒比工程机构联合会(LACCEI)的合作以及其他拉丁美洲和世界范围的项目，为学生提供国际机会。SEAGEP将组织和提供一个全面的计划，成功地指导STEM研究生从代表不足的群体走向博士学位完成和进入学术生涯。该计划的组成部分将以建筑工程与科学人才组织建议的设计原则为指导，将包括有针对性的招聘活动，为学生的研究生院经历做准备的衔接活动，保留活动，包括教师和同行指导，进入学术职业生涯的专业准备活动，以及博士后机会。该计划的目标是：增加来自代表性不足群体的少数STEM博士生的数量，并为他们成功进入生产性教师职业生涯做好准备；为使改革制度化而发展协同合作伙伴关系，这些变革将继续促进STEM研究生教育的多样性；增加来自代表性不足群体的本科生池，他们准备进入STEM研究生领域；开发一个评估伙伴关系有效性的模型。SEAGEP计划将在整个计划的五年中进行评估--使用定性和定量方法，包括计划活动实施时的形成性评估，以及计划影响的总结性评估。SEAGEP的学术价值显而易见，因为该联盟包括一支非常有资格担任私人助理和活动主持人的多样化团队，这些活动旨在以创造性和创新性的方式解决博士生的准备问题，从而增加在STEM学科获得博士学位并进入教授职位的人数不足的学者人数。正如文献所述，SEAGEP是在对这项任务所固有的挑战有透彻了解的基础上发展起来的。每个合作伙伴都有独特的优势可以贡献，优势可以实现。通过这种协同作用，SEAGEP将产生文化和体制变革以及伙伴关系有效性的国家模式。SEAGEP的使命是通过开发创新和可持续的研究生教育计划，为加强高等教育的多样性建立区域伙伴关系，为学生进入STEM领域做准备和培训，并培育机构文化变革的模式。一旦实现，它将通过增加少数族裔博士的数量产生直接影响，还将通过建立将广泛传播的示范伙伴关系和经过验证的战略而产生更广泛的影响。SEAGEP将有助于发展一个更具包容性、技能和多才多艺的技术人才库，加强国家劳动力的多样性，特别是学术界，从而为国家的经济实力、国家安全和生活质量至关重要的领域做出贡献。

The proposed SEAGEP Program includes The University of Florida (UF) as lead institution and two primary partners . Clemson University and The University of South Carolina. SEAGEP unites three Research Extensive institutions that combined offer PhD degrees in over 50 STEM fields offering unparalleled opportunities for graduate studies. In 2002, the total STEM graduate enrollment at these institutions was over 400. Secondary partners are the Florida-Georgia Louis B. Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (FGLSAMP), the South Carolina Louis B. Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (SCAMP) and the University of the U.S. Virgin Islands. SEAGEP will also provide international opportunities for students through a collaboration with the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI) and other Latin American and worldwide projects. SEAGEP will organize and deliver a comprehensive program that successfully guides STEM graduate students from underrepresented groups toward doctoral degree completion and entry into academic careers. The components of the program will be guided by the design principles suggested by the Building Engineering & Science Talent organization and will include targeted recruitment activities, bridging activities that prepare students for the graduate school experience, retention activities that include faculty and peer mentoring, professional preparation activities for entry into academic careers, and post doctoral opportunities. The objectives of the program are to: Increase the number of minority STEM PhD students from underrepresented groups and prepare them for successful entry into productive faculty careers, Develop synergistic partner relationships for institutionalizing changes that will continue to promote diversity in STEM graduate education Increase the pool of undergraduates from underrepresented groups who are prepared for entry into graduate STEM fields, Develop a model to evaluate the effectiveness of the partnership. The SEAGEP program will be evaluated throughout the five years of the program- using both qualitative and quantitative methods, including formative evaluation of the program activities as they are implemented, as well as summative program impact evaluation. The intellectual merit of SEAGEP is evident in that this Alliance includes a diverse team well qualified to serve as PIs and facilitators of the activities designed to address the preparation of doctoral students in creative and innovative ways, thereby increasing the numbers of underrepresented scholars that earn doctoral degrees in STEM disciplines and enter the professoriate. SEAGEP has been developed from a thorough understanding of the challenges inherent in this mission as reported in the literature. Each partner has unique strengths to contribute and benefits to realize. Through this synergy, SEAGEP will result in national models for cultural and institutional change, and partnership effectiveness. The Mission of SEAGEP is to create a regional partnership for enhancing diversity in higher education by developing innovative and sustainable graduate education programs to prepare and train students to enter STEM fields and to foster models of institutional cultural change. When realized, it will provide a direct impact by increasing the number of minority PhDs and will also result in broader impacts by establishing a model partnership and proven strategies that will be widely disseminated. SEAGEP will contribute to the development of a more inclusive, skilled, and versatile technical talent pool, strengthening the diversity of the Nation.s workforce, particularly academia, thereby contributing to the fields that are critical to the Nation.s economic strength, national security, and quality of life.