PROMISE: Maryland's AGEP

承诺：马里兰州 AGEP

• 批准号: 0639698
• 负责人: Philip Rous
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-15 至 2012-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0639698&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PROMISE; Maryland; AGEP

ABSTRACTNSF-0639698Maryland?s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) was founded in November 2002 and was officially named PROMISE (PROfessorial training for Mathematicians, Information technologists, Scientists, and Engineers), in April 2003. PROMISE is a strong alliance of the three public research universities in Maryland: the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC, the Honors University in Maryland), the University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore. The mission of PROMISE going forward is to increase significantly the numbers and diversity of Ph.D.s who graduate from Maryland universities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Anyone who supports this mission, regardless of ethnicity, discipline, or status (part-time/full-time) is encouraged to participate in the activities of PROMISE as a partner to achieve the goal of developing highly skilled STEM professionals for the U.S. from a pool of traditionally under-tapped human resources. This alliance calls to action students from ethnic groups that are historically underrepresented in STEM. PROMISE is designed to cultivate and train leaders. By expanding the traditional program model of recruitment, retention, and successful graduation to include a strong emphasis on training and professional maturity, PROMISE seeks to develop students who prepare for leadership in their professions by becoming leaders in graduate school. To build these leadership qualities, PROMISE focuses on communication, public speaking, and other ?soft skills? together with an emphasis on academic and research excellence to empower students to achieve high levels of expertise and skill that the U.S. needs to tackle national technological concerns.PROMISE: Maryland?s AGEP has been extremely effective at increasing the number of minority doctoral students in STEM disciplines and building a strong sense of community. This was the focus of a previous award and sets the stage for the next phase of activities supported by this award. This alliance has a large number of students in the pipeline to graduate. Therefore, this award will provide funding to continue and augment the most successful recruitment and community building activities of the prior award. The focus of this award is on retention, dissertation completion, and transition to the professoriate. PROMISE will expand existing programs and develop new initiatives based on the successes and lessons learned to serve both the graduate students of Maryland and graduate students around the country. Many of the proposed activities have been piloted, and are poised to move into full implementation.Intellectual Merit: This project addresses the national need to increase participation of underrepresented minorities in science and engineering research careers, particularly in the professoriate. PROMISE: Maryland?s AGEP project will undertake a specific set of activities to address the problem of under representation at each key stage of graduate education with a focus on retention, dissertation completion, and transition to the professoriate. The project builds on the successful track record established individually and collectively by the PROMISE universities that have contributed to understanding what is required to successfully shepherd students through the Ph.D. (Bass et al., 2003; Tull et al., 2003; Tull et al.,2005).Broader Impacts: This project will have broader impacts in four critical areas. Foremost among these is an increase in the number of Ph.D. degrees awarded to underrepresented minorities in STEM disciplines. Improving the environment for minority STEM graduate students necessitates a change in the environment for all graduate students. Therefore, the project will have broader impact on graduate education generally, with these changes being institutionalized at PROMISE institutions. Third, the project will provide a broader and more holistic approach to graduate education that produces graduates who are prepared for academic careers. Finally, the project fosters partnerships that lead to impacts beyond PROMISE. This impact is achieved by building partnerships with other NSF funded initiatives such as the recently funded IGERT and engineering research center. These partnerships can achieve broader diversity, fostering connections between faculty at PROMISE institutions and colleges and universities that have a high production of minority STEM bachelor?s degrees for lasting change in recruiting and research collaborations, and building relationships with professional societies and NSF projects outside of Maryland.

Abstractnsf-0639698 Maryland的研究生教育联盟和教授（EGEP）于2002年11月成立，被正式命名为Promise（数学家，信息技术学家，科学家和工程师的教授培训），2003年4月。Promise。马里兰州，大学公园和巴尔的摩大学马里兰州大学。未来的承诺的使命是要大大增加从马里兰州大学毕业的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域的博士学位的数量和多样性。鼓励任何支持这项任务的人，无论种族，纪律或地位如何（兼职/全职），以作为合作伙伴的诺言活动，以实现从传统上开头的人力资源库为美国开发高技能的STEM专业人员的目标。这个联盟呼吁从历史上属于STEM中人数不足的种族群体的行动学生。承诺旨在培养和培训领导者。通过扩大传统的招聘，保留和成功毕业的计划模型，包括对培训和专业成熟的强调，Promise旨在通过成为研究生院的领导者来培养为职业领导的学生。为了建立这些领导才能，Promise专注于沟通，公开演讲和其他软技能？加上强调卓越的学术和研究，以使学生能够实现美国需要解决国家技术问题的高水平专业知识和技能。宣传：马里兰州的SEGP在增加STEM学科中的少数族裔博士生数量并建立强大的社区意义方面非常有效。这是先前奖项的重点，并为该奖项支持的下一阶段活动设定了舞台。这个联盟有大量的学生正在毕业。因此，该奖项将提供资金，以继续并扩大先前奖项中最成功的招聘和社区建设活动。该奖项的重点是保留，论文完成和向教授的过渡。 Promise将扩大现有计划，并根据学到的成功和经验教训为马里兰州的研究生和全国各地的研究生提供服务。许多拟议的活动已被试行，并有望进行全面实施。智能优点：该项目旨在满足增加代表性少数群体在科学和工程研究职业中的参与的国家需求，尤其是在教授中。承诺：马里兰州的年龄项目将开展一系列特定的活动，以解决研究生教育的每个关键阶段的代表性问题，重点是保留，论文完成和过渡到教授。该项目建立在诺言大学的单独和集体建立的成功往绩为基础上，这些记录有助于了解成功通过博士学位来成功牧羊学生所需的内容。 （Bass等，2003; Tull等，2003; Tull等，2005）。Boader的影响：该项目将在四个关键领域产生更大的影响。其中最重要的是博士学位的数量增加。授予STEM学科中代表性不足的少数群体的学位。改善少数族裔研究生的环境需要改变所有研究生的环境。因此，该项目将对研究生教育产生更大的影响，而这些变化在承诺机构中被制度化。第三，该项目将为研究生教育提供更广泛，更全面的方法，以培养为学术职业做准备的毕业生。最后，该项目促进了伙伴关系，从而产生了超出承诺的影响。通过与最近资助的IGERT和工程研究中心等其他NSF资助的计划建立合作伙伴关系来实现这一影响。这些伙伴关系可以实现更广泛的多样性，从而促进了承诺机构的教师与学院和大学之间的联系，这些教师的少数派STEM STEM学士学位高，以持续变化招聘和研究合作，并与马里兰州以外的专业社会和NSF项目建立关系。