UC Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Phase II

加州大学研究生教育联盟和教授第二期

• 批准号: 0450366
• 负责人: Steven Beckwith
• 金额: $ 1000万
• 依托单位: University of California, Office of the President, Oakland
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-10-01 至 2011-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0450366&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UC; Alliance; Graduate; Education; Professoriate

The UC Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (UC AGEP) is uniquely poised to increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) students who enter the professoriate in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). In Phase II of UC AGEP, the broader impact of this program will be to increase the number of URM STEM students earning PhDs and becoming optimally prepared for the professoriate. Its intellectual merit lies in its production of new model programs for recruiting, retaining, and graduating URM STEM PhDs and assisting with postdoctoral placements. The UC system currently produces approximately 10% of the nation.s URM PhDs in the Life Sciences, Engineering and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Mathematics. In Phase I of its AGEP program, UC AGEP increased URM new STEM enrollment both in real numbers and as a percent of total enrollment. To sustain this gain and increase representation of URMs in the professoriate, UC AGEP Phase II will expand its recruitment and admission efforts while addressing key later components from retention through postdoctoral placements. Specifically, UC AGEP II will implement a six-step program designed to: 1. Increase the number of URM STEM students aware of and prepared for graduate study through dissemination of information about UC AGEP activities and summer enrichment opportunities for undergraduates. 2. Increase the number of URM students who apply to UC campuses and who are considered for admission to the University through pre-application events, partnerships with minority serving institutions (MSIs) such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), partnerships with California State Universities and summer programs for masters students. 3. Increase both the number of URM students who are admitted, and the number who choose to accept offers through: 1) targeting interactions and assistance to admission committees; 2) increasing opportunities for campus visits; 3) increasing communication with admitted students; and 4) providing summer enrichment opportunities for newly admitted students. 4. Impact the early academic experience of URM graduate students and improve their retention by creating community networks, improving faculty mentoring, and enhancing students. skills for coping with academic hurdles such as the qualifying exam. 5. Support continuing URM graduate students through programs that improve their professional and academic skills, and prepare them for postdoctoral positions and the academic job market. 6. Create new models for increasing URM access to and participation in postdoctoral scholar positions, thereby ensuring their competitiveness for academic positions. UC AGEP Phase II expects project outcomes to include increased URM awareness of UC STEM fields, better preparation of applicants, increased URM numbers (and percentages) for application and matriculation, increased retention, a decreased time to degree, and better access to postdoctoral positions. Thus, over the next five years, UC AGEP II should result in a significant increase in URM PhDs who graduate from UC programs and enter the professoriate. Also, by comparison of best practices, the UC AGEP infrastructure will foster the building of networks and models for diversity interventions that will persist after the grant period ends.

UC联盟研究生教育和教授（UC AGEP）是唯一准备增加谁进入科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教授代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生的数量。 在UC AGEP的第二阶段，该计划的更广泛影响将是增加URM STEM学生获得博士学位的数量，并为教授做好最佳准备。 它的智力价值在于它的招聘，保留和毕业URM STEM博士和协助博士后安置的新模式计划的生产。 UC系统目前产生了大约10%的国家。s URM博士在生命科学，工程和计算机科学，物理科学和数学。 在其AGEP计划的第一阶段，UC AGEP增加了URM新的STEM入学人数，无论是在真实的人数还是在总入学人数中的百分比。为了维持这一收益并增加URM在教授中的代表性，UC AGEP第二阶段将扩大其招聘和录取工作，同时解决从保留到博士后安置的关键后期组成部分。 具体而言，UC AGEP II将实施六步计划，旨在： 1. 通过传播有关UC AGEP活动和本科生夏季充实机会的信息，增加URM STEM学生了解并准备研究生学习的人数。 2. 增加URM学生的数量谁申请到UC校园，谁被认为是通过预申请活动，与少数民族服务机构（MSI），如历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU），与加州州立大学和硕士生暑期课程的合作伙伴关系录取到大学。 3. 增加URM学生被录取的人数，以及选择接受录取通知书的人数：1）有针对性地与招生委员会进行互动和协助; 2）增加校园参观的机会; 3）增加与被录取学生的沟通; 4）为新录取的学生提供夏季充实的机会。 4. 影响URM研究生的早期学术经验，并通过创建社区网络，改善教师指导和提高学生的保留率。应付学业障碍的技巧，例如资格考试。 通过提高他们的专业和学术技能的计划，支持继续URM研究生，并为博士后职位和学术就业市场做好准备。 6. 创造新的模式，增加URM获得和参与博士后学者职位，从而确保他们的学术职位的竞争力。 UC AGEP第二阶段预计项目成果包括提高URM对UC STEM领域的认识，更好地准备申请人，增加URM申请和入学人数（和百分比），增加保留率，减少学位时间，以及更好地获得博士后职位。因此，在接下来的五年里，UC AGEP II应该会导致从UC课程毕业并进入教授职位的URM博士人数显著增加。 此外，通过比较最佳做法，加州大学AGEP基础设施将促进建立多样性干预措施的网络和模式，这些干预措施将在赠款期结束后继续存在。