Collaborative Research: SBE Alliance: Great Lakes Alliance for the Social and Behavioral Sciences (GLASS)

劳伦斯·亨斯肯西北大学约翰·汉森芝加哥大学查尔斯·哈拉比朱迪·罗勒威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校罗伯特·考夫曼俄亥俄州立大学伊芙琳·埃利斯·查兰德拉·布莱恩·蒂瓦·佩尔宾夕法尼亚州立大学阿奎尔斯·伊格莱西亚斯·泽布伦·肯德里克坦普尔大学德博拉·里奇伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校该资助为五大湖联盟提供了持续（三年）的支持社会与行为科学联盟。GLASS由七所大学组成——西北大学（联盟牵头机构）、伊利诺伊大学香槟分校、芝加哥大学、俄亥俄州立大学、宾夕法尼亚州立大学、威斯康星大学和天普大学。该联盟旨在通过以下方式扩大博士生在社会和行为科学领域的参与：(1)参与七所大学之间的协调活动；(2)加强各校区活动的协调；(3)研究各种技术对促进研究生教育多样性的影响。GLASS将专注于增加少数族裔学生在联盟机构的社会、行为和经济科学研究生课程中的入学人数，在每个校园和联盟之间建立永久性基础设施，以支持多样性和多样化的研究生群体。开发一套可供任何大学使用的可出版的技术和指导方针，并创建一个国家论坛，以交流促进学术界多样性的思想和最佳实践。联盟结构的附加价值包括：1)联盟层面的活动（例如，年度学生研究会议和共同招聘材料的创建和协调招聘工作；2）通过实施联盟访问学者计划进行招聘，并在主要会议、博览会和大学访问中协调招聘工作；3)由于社会和行为学教授和学者提供了一个即时的、多层次的指导网络，并使过渡项目成为可能，因此增加了学生的保留率；4)在更大范围的大学和学院中增加针对本科生的活动和项目，以增加潜在研究生的数量。联盟中大学的数量也使pi能够分析扩大参与和将现有技术转移到新环境的新战略的有效性。更广泛的影响：联盟模式有助于在美国高校创建多元化的研究生教育学生群体和教师。此外，该联盟还将编写书面材料，分发给美国所有的大学，这将成为全国交流联盟思想的基础，作为扩大美国高等教育机构参与的一项战略。

SES-0750621Lawrence HenschenNorthwestern UniversitySES-0750599John HansenUniversity of ChicagoSES-0750656Charles HalabyJudy RollerUniversity of Wisconsin-MadisonSES-0750630Robert KaufmanOhio State UniversitySES-0750618Evelynn EllisChalandra BryantEva PellPennsylvania State UniversitySES-0750612Aquiles IglesiasZebulon KendrickTemple UniversitySES-0750612Deborah RichieUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignThe grant provides continued (three-years) support for the Great Lakes Alliance for Social and Behavioral Sciences (GLASS) Alliance. GLASS is comprised of seven universities--Northwestern University (Alliance lead institution), University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign, University of Chicago, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, University of Wisconsin, and Temple University. The Alliance seeks to broaden the participation of PhD students in the social and behavioral sciences by: (1) engaging in coordinated activities across the seven universities, (2) increasing coordination of activities on each campus, (3) and studying the impact of various techniques on promoting diversity in graduate education. GLASS will focus on increasing the number of minority students enrolled in alliance institutions' graduate programs in the social, behavioral and economic sciences, the establishment of permanent infrastructure on each campus and across alliances to support diversity and a diverse population of graduate students, and the development of a publishable set of techniques and guidelines that can be used by any university and creates a national forum for the exchange of ideas and best practices for promoting diversity in the academy.The value added of the alliance structure includes: 1) alliance-level activities (e.g., an annual student research conference and the creation of common recruiting materials and coordinated recruiting efforts; 2) recruitment through the implementation of an Alliance Visiting Scholars Program and coordination of recruiting efforts at major conferences, fairs and university visits; 3) increased retention of students due to a cadre of social and behavioral professors and scholars who provide an instant, multi-level mentoring network and enable transition programs; and 4) increased activities and programs targeted at undergraduates in a wider range of universities and colleges to increase the pool of potential graduate students. The number of universities in the alliance also allows the PIs to analyze the effectiveness of new strategies for broadening participation and the transference of existing techniques to new settings. Broader Impact: The alliance model contribute to creating a diverse graduate education student body and faculty at US colleges and universities. Further the Alliance will develop written materials that can be distributed to all universities in the US could form the basis for a national exchange of ideas about alliances as a strategy to broaden participation in US institutions of higher learning.