PROMISE: Maryland's AGEP

S研究生教育与教授联盟(AGEP)成立于2002年11月，2003年4月正式命名为Promise(面向数学家、信息技术专家、科学家和工程师的教授培训)。Promise是马里兰州三所公立研究型大学的强大联盟：马里兰大学巴尔的摩县分校(UMBC，马里兰州荣誉大学)、马里兰大学学院公园和马里兰州大学巴尔的摩分校。Promise未来的使命是显著增加从马里兰大学毕业的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域的博士数量和多样性。任何支持这一使命的人，无论种族、学科或地位(兼职/全职)，都被鼓励作为合作伙伴参与Promise的活动，以实现从传统上开发不足的人力资源池中为美国培养高技能STEM专业人员的目标。该联盟呼吁采取行动，让来自STEM历史上代表性不足的少数民族的学生采取行动。Promise旨在培养和培训领导者。通过扩展传统的招聘、留住和成功毕业的项目模式，将重点放在培训和专业成熟度上，Promise希望通过成为研究生院的领导者来培养那些为在各自职业中成为领导者而做好准备的学生。为了培养这些领导力品质，Promise专注于沟通、公开演讲和其他软技能？加上对学术和研究卓越的重视，使学生能够获得美国解决国家技术问题所需的高水平专业知识和技能。问题：马里兰州？S AGEP在增加STEM学科的少数族裔博士生数量和建立强烈的社区意识方面非常有效。这是前一个奖项的重点，并为本奖项支持的下一阶段活动奠定了基础。这个联盟有大量的学生正在等待毕业。因此，这一奖项将提供资金，以继续和加强前一奖项最成功的招募和社区建设活动。这一奖项的重点是留住、完成学位论文和向教授过渡。Promise将扩大现有项目，并根据成功经验和经验教训开发新的举措，为马里兰州的研究生和全国各地的研究生提供服务。许多拟议的活动已经试行，并准备全面实施。智力方面的优点：该项目解决了国家需要增加少数族裔代表不足的人参与科学和工程研究事业的需要，特别是在教授职位上。承诺：马里兰州-S AGEP项目将开展一系列具体的活动，以解决研究生教育每个关键阶段的代表性不足问题，重点是留住研究生、完成论文和过渡到教授。该项目建立在Promise大学单独和集体建立的成功记录的基础上，这些大学有助于理解成功地引导学生通过博士学位所需的条件(巴斯等人，2003年；Tull等人，2003年；Tull等人，2005年)。广泛影响：该项目将在四个关键领域产生更广泛的影响。其中最重要的是增加授予STEM学科中代表性不足的少数群体的博士学位的数量。改善少数族裔STEM研究生的环境，就必须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广泛的影响，这些变化将在Promise院校制度化。第三，该项目将为研究生教育提供更广泛和更全面的方法，培养出为学术生涯做好准备的毕业生。最后，该项目促进了产生超出承诺的影响的伙伴关系。这一影响是通过与NSF资助的其他倡议(如最近资助的IGERT和工程研究中心)建立伙伴关系来实现的。这些合作伙伴关系可以实现更广泛的多样性，促进Promise院校和拥有大量少数民族STEM学士学位的学院和大学之间的联系-S在招聘和研究合作方面的持久变化，并与马里兰州以外的专业协会和国家科学基金会项目建立关系。

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.