AGEP: Connectivity and Implementation

本项目旨在加强国家科学基金会的伙伴关系和资源共享网络。研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）通过扩大参与研究所（IBP）的服务。IBP将作为一个广泛的服务中心，专门面向创建一个真正的AGEP机构全国网络的目标。该项目将最大限度地提高AGEP社区内多个层面的连通性。IBP是一个小型的协调组织，在过去的四年里一直与NSF的研究生教育部门合作。IBP已经开发了一个实施模型，用于支持一个国家网络，以努力增加STEM领域中代表性不足的少数民族和妇女的数量。已经建立了广泛的基础设施，用于收集，存储和交换项目，潜在学生，少数民族服务机构和组织以及学生导师之间的信息，从而增加了成功地从本科课程过渡到研究生院的学生数量。IBP还开始开发一个基础设施，以帮助研究生在他们的职业道路，博士后机会，教师和其他职位的下一步。这一新的国家模式表明，旨在实现重大文化和结构变革的教育举措如何能够由致力于扩大STEM参与这一总体目标的一小部分工作人员来实施。IBP现在的定位是协助AGEP加强和扩展其由项目领导者、学生、潜在学生和学生导师组成的全国网络。增强的国家网络将提高这一努力的可见度和能力，吸引入门级科学家从事STEM职业，并通过增加科学院中代表性不足的少数民族的数量，为公共和私营部门培养多样化的新科学家和领导人。通过将一小部分员工奉献给这些目标，IBP已经能够开发出一种创新和全面的方法来解决在所有情况下代表性不足的问题。通过研究问题，识别问题，提出，测试和改进解决方案，IBP在开发工具和方法方面取得了重大进展，这些工具和方法减少了来自弱势背景的学生的障碍，跨越了技术鸿沟，并使资源较少的学生能够获得信息。这种IBP方法以及创建和传播的相关工具将为培养多样化的STEM劳动力做出重要贡献，为这些领域带来各种各样的人才和观点。更广泛的ImpactIBP吗?美国的工作面向两个广泛的影响。首先，增加未被充分代表的少数民族在AGEP项目中的参与，将有助于创造一支在社会构成方面多样化和包容性的STEM劳动力队伍。第二,后备?美国的综合方法可以作为任何寻求多样化和增加其人力资源管道的区域或国家计划的适应模式。

This project proposes to strengthen the national network of partnerships and resource sharing for the NSF?s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) through the services of the Institute for Broadening Participation (IBP). IBP will serve as a hub for a wide variety of services specifically oriented toward the goal of creating a truly national network of AGEP institutions. This project will maximize connectivity at multiple levels within the AGEP community. IBP is a small, coordinating organization which has worked with the Division of Graduate Education at NSF for the past four years. IBP has developed an implementation model for supporting a national network in an effort to increase the number of underrepresented minorities and women in STEM fields. An extensive infrastructure has been built for gathering, storing and exchanging information between programs, potential students, minority serving institutions and organizations and student mentors, with a resulting increase in the number of students who successfully navigate the transition from their undergraduate programs to graduate school. IBP has also begun developing an infrastructure to assist graduate students in the next steps in their career paths, post doctoral opportunities, faculty and other positions. This new national model demonstrates how educational initiatives designed to achieve significant cultural and structural change can be implemented by a small staff dedicated to the overall objective of broadening participation in STEM. IBP is now positioned to assist AGEP in strengthening and extending its national network of program leaders, students, potential students, and student mentors. An enhanced national network will increase the visibility and capabilities of this effort, attract entry level scientists to STEM careers, and produce a diverse new cadre of scientists and leaders for the public and private sectors by increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in the academy. Intellectual MeritBy dedicating a small staff to these goals, IBP has been able to develop an innovative and comprehensive approach for addressing underrepresentation in all contexts. By researching the issue, identifying problems, and posing, testing, and refining solutions, IBP has made significant progress in developing tools and methods to reduce barriers for students from less advantaged backgrounds, to cross the technology divide and to make information accessible to students who may have fewer resources. This IBP approach and the related tools created and disseminated will make an important contribution to producing a diverse STEM workforce bringing a wide variety of talent and perspectives to these fields. Broader ImpactIBP?s work is geared toward two broad impacts. First, increasing the participation of underrepresented minorities in AGEP programs will contribute to the creation of a STEM workforce which is as diverse and inclusive with respect to social makeup. Second, IBP?s comprehensive approach can serve as a model for adaptation by any regional or national program that seeks to diversify and increase their human resource pipeline.