AGEP-- Rice-Houston ALLIANCE FOR GRADUATE EDUCATION AND THE PROFESSORIATE

AGEP--赖斯-休斯顿研究生教育和教授联盟

• 批准号: 0450363
• 负责人: Paula Sanders
• 金额: $ 529.03万
• 依托单位: William Marsh Rice University
• 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 2012-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0450363&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AGEP; Rice; Houston; ALLIANCE; GRADUATE

Rice-Houston ALLIANCE FOR GRADUATE EDUCATION AND THE PROFESSORIATE (Rice-Houston AGEP) Project Summary Rice University, the University of Houston, Texas Southern University, the University of Houston-Downtown, Texas State University, Houston Community College, and San Jacinto Junior College, propose an exciting new alliance, the Rice-Houston Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (Rice-Houston AGEP). Situated in one of the nation's largest, most culturally diverse cities, the proposed Rice-Houston AGEP unites many of the city's research and teaching universities and community colleges in the common mission of significantly increasing the number of underrepresented minority students earning Ph.D.s and positioning them to become leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The proposed Rice-Houston AGEP builds on and leverages the strengths of two highly successful programs - the Rice AGEP and the Houston Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (H-LSAMP) - to build a unified, multi-level, long-range alliance deeply committed to this cause. In order to accomplish its mission, the Rice-Houston AGEP has established the following goals: Increase minority undergraduate retention in STEM majors to the B.S.; Promote and motivate more minority STEM undergraduates to pursue the Ph.D.; Increase minority STEM graduate admissions; and Increase minority STEM graduate retention to the Ph.D. Program Strategies. The Rice-Houston AGEP will accomplish its goals by building a strong community of scholars across the Alliance institutions creating unique opportunities for all participating students including those from community colleges and other minority serving institutions, exposing them to the excitement of research and a career in the professoriate that they would never experience otherwise. Through the Rice-Houston AGEP community, students will develop personal and professional relationships with peers and professors and enjoy a supportive network where they are welcomed, encouraged, and supported to pursue Ph.D.s, while mentoring others as they attain their own goals. Activities. Main activities within the Rice-Houston AGEP community include yearly: university faculty workshops, integrated undergraduate and graduate summer research and mentoring programs, student research/professional development conferences, extensive student/faculty conference attendance, and multi-institutional national and local graduate student recruitment. Intellectual Merit. The Rice-Houston AGEP will test several new or adapted components of its program. It will examine the effects of intensive and sustained faculty workshops on faculty commitment to the promotion of STEM diversity; it will evaluate the effectiveness of a university-wide, faculty-led model of program direction; it will assess program effects on broader faculty and institutional culture, and it will assess the impact of multi-institutional community activities to encourage and promote STEM graduate education. Broader Impact. The Rice-Houston AGEP has the potential to impact hundreds of underrepresented minority students - encouraging, preparing, and retaining them as they pursue STEM Ph.D.s. The Rice-Houston AGEP will provide a model for undergraduate and graduate education that effectively promotes careers in science and sustains students as they pursue careers as scientists.

莱斯-休斯顿研究生教育和教授联盟 (Rice-Houston AGEP) 项目摘要 莱斯大学、休斯顿大学、德克萨斯南方大学、休斯顿大学市中心分校、德克萨斯州立大学、休斯顿社区学院和圣哈辛托初级学院提议建立一个令人兴奋的新联盟，即莱斯-休斯顿研究生教育和教授联盟 (Rice-Houston AGEP)。 拟议的莱斯-休斯顿 GEP 项目位于美国最大、文化最多元化的城市之一，该项目将该市的许多研究和教学大学以及社区学院联合起来，以实现显着增加获得博士学位的少数族裔学生数量的共同使命，并使他们成为科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 领域的领导者。 拟议的莱斯-休斯顿 AGEP 建立在并利用两个非常成功的计划——莱斯 AGEP 和休斯敦路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟 (H-LSAMP)——的优势，建立一个统一的、多层次的、长期的联盟，坚定致力于这一事业。 为了完成其使命，莱斯-休斯顿 GEP 制定了以下目标： 提高少数族裔本科生在 STEM 专业中获得学士学位的比例； 促进和激励更多少数族裔 STEM 本科生攻读博士学位；增加少数族裔 STEM 研究生招生；提高少数 STEM 毕业生获得博士学位的保留率 计划策略。 莱斯-休斯顿 GEP 将通过在联盟机构中建立一个强大的学者社区来实现其目标，为所有参与的学生（包括来自社区学院和其他少数族裔服务机构的学生）创造独特的机会，让他们接触到研究的兴奋和他们在其他情况下永远不会经历的教授生涯。 通过莱斯-休斯顿 AGEP 社区，学生将与同龄人和教授建立个人和专业关系，并享受一个支持网络，在这个网络中，他们受到欢迎、鼓励和支持来攻读博士学位，同时指导他人实现自己的目标。 活动。 莱斯-休斯顿 AGEP 社区内的主要活动包括每年：大学教师研讨会、综合本科生和研究生暑期研究和指导计划、学生研究/专业发展会议、广泛的学生/教师会议出席以及多机构国家和地方研究生招募。 智力优点。 莱斯-休斯顿 AGEP 将测试其计划的几个新的或改编的部分。 它将研究密集和持续的教师研讨会对教师致力于促进 STEM 多样性的影响；它将评估全校范围内、教师主导的项目指导模式的有效性；它将评估项目对更广泛的教师和机构文化的影响，并将评估多机构社区活动的影响，以鼓励和促进 STEM 研究生教育。 更广泛的影响。莱斯-休斯顿 GEP 有潜力影响数百名代表性不足的少数族裔学生——鼓励、准备和留住他们攻读 STEM 博士学位。 莱斯-休斯顿 GEP 将为本科生和研究生教育提供一个模型，有效促进科学事业并支持学生追求科学家的职业生涯。