Developing Professorial Leadership: A Pilot Partnership

目标是解决国内代表性不足人口（即，非裔美国人、西班牙裔、美洲印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民或其他太平洋岛民）攻读STEM学科（科学、技术、工程和数学）博士学位，研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）计划于1998年由NSF发起。在过去7年中，该方案从1998年的几个联盟发展到2005年全国22个AGEP联盟。在行为科学（CASBS）高级研究中心将与研究生教育联盟和教授（AGEP）合作，特别是解决在社会，行为和经济科学领域准备代表性不足的少数民族在学术界的教师领导AGEP的目标。CASBS成立于1954年，与NSF几乎同时成立，旨在推进行为科学（广义解释）领域并为社会服务。该中心具有悠久而杰出的历史，在跨学科的环境中汇集了全国及其他地区最优秀的学者，从而推动了各领域的发展，并提供了一些服务社会的例子。AGEP-CASBS伙伴关系将更有效地推进领域，改善机构，并通过吸引年轻的少数民族教师学者与新的想法和支持他们发展成为未来的学术领袖服务社会。这一试点伙伴关系将确定和指导青年就业和终身教职后的年轻教师，作为2008-2009学年CASBS的住宿研究员。这些奖学金将由NSF和CASBS共同资助。SBE AGEP领导的指导委员会将与CASBS主任和副主任合作，以实现这些目标。这笔赠款的资金还将帮助CASBS设计用于选择研究员的申请系统首次使用的评估。CASBS寻求一个过程，将产生更多的研究员在年龄，机构，性别，特别是种族方面的多样性。CASBS的目标是在未来四年内改进这一进程。AGEP-CASBS伙伴关系将加强这一评估和由此产生的修改。

With the goal to address the severe national shortage in the number of domestic members of underrepresented populations (i.e., African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders) pursuing doctoral degrees in the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Program was initiated by the NSF in 1998. During the last 7 years, the program has grown from a few alliances in 1998 to 22 AGEP alliances nationwide in 2005. The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) will partner with the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) to especially address the AGEP goal of preparing underrepresented minorities in the fields of social, behavioral, and economic sciences for faculty leadership in academia. CASBS was established in 1954, around the same time as NSF, for the purpose of advancing the fields within the behavioral sciences (broadly construed) and being of service to society. This Center has a long and distinguished history of bringing together in an interdisciplinary setting, the very best scholars in the nation and beyond, and thereby advancing fields, with some examples of serving society. An AGEP-CASBS partnership will more effectively advance fields, improve institutions, and serve society by engaging younger minority faculty scholars with fresh ideas and supporting them to develop into future academic leaders. This pilot partnership will identify and mentor young post-tenure faculty from AGEP as residential Fellows at CASBS for the 2008-2009 academic year. These fellowships will be jointly funded by NSF and CASBS. A Steering Committee of SBE AGEP leadership would work with the CASBS Director and Deputy Director to accomplish the goals.Funds from this grant will also help CASBS design the assessment of first use of an application system for selecting Fellows. CASBS seeks a process that will yield more diversity among Fellows in terms of age, institution, gender, and especially ethnicity. CASBS aims to improve this process over the next four years. The AGEP-CASBS partnership will enhance this assessment and resulting modifications.