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

SES-0750621劳伦斯·亨森西北大学约翰·汉森芝加哥大学SES-0750656查尔斯·哈拉比朱迪·罗勒威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校SES-0750630罗伯特·考夫曼俄亥俄州立大学SES-0750618 Evelynn EllisChalandra BryantEva PellPennalvania州立大学SES-0750612 Aquiles Iglesias ZeBulon KendrickTemple大学SES-07506 Deborah Richie伊利诺伊州大学厄巴纳-香槟分校这笔赠款为五大湖社会科学联盟和行为科学(玻璃)联盟提供持续(三年)的支持。Glass由七所大学组成--西北大学(联盟牵头机构)、伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-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、威斯康星大学和坦普尔大学。该联盟寻求通过以下方式扩大博士生在社会科学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)加强每个校区活动的协调，(3)研究各种技术对促进研究生教育多样性的影响。格拉斯将专注于增加少数族裔学生参加联盟机构在社会、行为和经济科学方面的研究生项目的人数，在每个校园和联盟之间建立永久基础设施，以支持多样性和多样化的研究生群体，并开发一套可供任何大学使用的可出版的技术和指导方针，并创建一个促进学院多样性的思想和最佳做法的全国性论坛。联盟结构的增值价值包括：1)联盟一级的活动(例如，每年一次的学生研究会议，以及创建共同的招聘材料和协调招聘工作；2)通过实施联盟访问学者计划和协调在大型会议、博览会和大学访问中的招聘工作进行招聘；3)由于社会和行为教授和学者提供即时、多层次的指导网络并支持过渡计划，增加了学生的留存率；以及4)在更广泛的大学和学院中增加针对本科生的活动和计划，以增加潜在的研究生人才库。联盟中的大学数量也使私人投资机构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学院和大学创建一个多样化的研究生教育学生群体和教师队伍。此外，该联盟将开发可分发给美国所有大学的书面材料，作为扩大美国高等教育机构参与的一项战略，可以成为全国范围内就联盟交换意见的基础。

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.