AGEP: Colorado Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate

AGEP：科罗拉多州研究生教育和教授联盟

• 批准号: 0639653
• 负责人: Mark Hernandez
• 金额: $ 500万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-10-01 至 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0639653&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AGEP; Colorado; Alliance; Graduate; Education

The University of Colorado at Boulder will establish an enlarged Colorado Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate. This new Alliance will include original partner Colorado State University (CSU), and 2 new partners: the University Corporation of Atmospheric Research (UCAR), and the University of Colorado's urban Denver campus. The Alliance activities will be expanded to include an elite post-doctoral program that supports mentoring by the highest tier of award winning faculty, and a comprehensive professional evaluation to identify sustainable institutional factors that have the highest impact on promoting parity in graduate education and successful advancement to the professorate.Problem Statement and Motivation. To remain globally competitive in science and technology, US institutions must increase the participation of groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM fields, particularly at the doctoral level. In the coming decades underrepresented minorities will compose a growing fraction of the population, and if their representation within STEM fields does not increase, the total number of US STEM PhDs will decline substantially relative to the overall U.S. population. The Colorado AGEP has developed the following goals to address these national concerns:. To translate the significant increases in minority STEM PhD enrollment realized during the last project period, into corresponding increases in PhD conferrals, such that the number of PhDs awarded increases from an average of 12 per year to an average of 24 per year over the next 5 years . To increase minority STEM PhD enrollment by 67%, from the current 111 students to 185 students . To develop stable cohorts of minority STEM doctoral students with retention rates comparable to their majority counterparts, and scholars that continue into the professoriate with tenure rates comparable to their majority counterparts . To provide targeted professional development opportunities, which increase the competitiveness of recent PhD recipients and postdoctoral fellows for careers in academe . To institutionalize a value added promotion and tenure credit for faculty that successfully mentor underrepresented minority graduate students through a PhD or postdoctoral fellowship . To change institutional cultures and establish sustainable diversity programs that do not solely depend upon dedicated federal grant support by 2015 At Colorado Alliance universities, the value-added components to AGEP already in place are: . Proactive faculty support system that recruits and retains underrepresented PhD students and postdoctoral fellows; . Strong commitment to AGEP's goals at the highest administrative levels at each institution; and . Significant financial support from Alliance institutions. Together, the Colorado Alliance institutions have committed $1 million per year to support AGEP activities. The intellectual merit of this proposal lies in its comprehensive faculty-driven effort to seamlessly transfer students through doctoral education and career placement. The net gain will be 10 new, highly competitively trained postdoctoral fellows that will enter the professorate, and 120 new underrepresented PhD graduates. The broader impacts of this proposal lie in its potential to serve as a national model for the integration of a broad array of previously independent diversity programs, which will catalyze the institutionalization of AGEP's efforts, and significantly contribute to the diversity of the professoriate for generations.

科罗拉多大学博尔德分校将建立一个扩大的科罗拉多研究生教育和教授联盟。这个新的联盟将包括最初的合作伙伴科罗拉多州立大学(CSU)和两个新的合作伙伴：大学大气研究公司(UCAR)和科罗拉多大学的城市丹佛校区。联盟的活动将扩大到包括一项精英博士后计划，该计划支持最高级别获奖教师的指导，以及一项全面的专业评估，以确定对促进研究生教育平等和成功晋升教授具有最大影响的可持续体制因素。为了保持在科技领域的全球竞争力，美国院校必须增加传统上在STEM领域代表性不足的群体的参与，尤其是在博士水平。在接下来的几十年里，代表不足的少数族裔在人口中所占的比例将越来越大，如果他们在STEM领域的代表性不增加，美国STEM博士的总数将相对于美国总人口大幅下降。科罗拉多州AGEP为解决这些国家关切的问题制定了以下目标：将上一个项目期间实现的少数民族STEM博士入学人数的显著增加转化为博士学位授予人数的相应增加，从而使获得博士学位的人数在今后5年内从平均每年12人增加到平均每年24人。少数民族STEM博士招生人数增加67%，从目前的111人增加到185人。培养稳定的少数族裔STEM博士生，他们的保留率与多数族裔相当，而继续进入教授职位的学者，其终身教职比率与多数族裔同行相当。提供有针对性的职业发展机会，增加新近获得博士学位的人和博士后在学术界工作的竞争力。为那些通过博士或博士后奖学金成功指导代表不足的少数族裔研究生的教师提供增值晋升和终身教职抵免的制度化。为了改变机构文化，并在2015年前在科罗拉多联盟大学建立不完全依赖联邦专项拨款支持的可持续多样性计划，AGEP已经到位的增值部分包括：积极主动的教师支持系统，招聘和留住代表性不足的博士生和博士后研究员；坚定地致力于在每个机构的最高行政级别实现AGEP的目标；以及来自联盟机构的大量财政支持。科罗拉多州联盟各机构总共承诺每年提供100万美元支持AGEP活动。这一提议的智力价值在于它由教师推动的综合努力，通过博士教育和就业安置无缝地转移学生。净收益将是10名新的、训练有素的博士后研究员将进入教授职位，以及120名新的未被充分代表的博士毕业生。这项提议更广泛的影响在于，它有可能成为整合一系列以前独立的多样性计划的国家典范，这将催化AGEP努力的制度化，并为几代人的教授多样性做出重大贡献。