Alabama Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Planning Activity

亚拉巴马参与NSF研究生教育联盟和教授协会（AGEP）的活动于2008年结束。亚拉巴马AGEP开始有12个机构，6个博士授予机构和6个非博士授予机构。本科院校作为饲料的博士授予机构，现在由亚拉巴马路易斯斯托克斯联盟少数民族参与（LSAMP）计划的支持。因此，现在应该制定一项规划提案，建立一个新的联盟，只由博士学位授予机构组成，这些机构将与LSAMP计划合作，招募代表性不足的少数STEM学生，并完全专注于实现AGEP的目标和目的。虽然前一个联盟在增加博士学位获得者方面取得了成功，但这一举措将进一步增加博士学位产出，并包括博士后培训。这个新的联盟需要规划，以重新调整人力资源，研究基础设施，项目管理，预算优先事项，并制定一个优秀的博士后培训计划。此外，还计划开展一项教育活动，为学生成为教授做准备。数据收集和活动和计划的研究，将最大限度地提高学生网络和整个联盟的互动也需要规划。为了实现这一目标，建议成立一个规划委员会，由来自博士机构的教师和管理人员、外部顾问和研究生组成。该委员会将审查STEM教育研究结果和有效的实施战略，以及STEM项目评估和评价。数据收集和分析也将是委员会沿着博士后培训和指导的重点。拟议的规划委员会将与利益攸关方举行会议和务虚会。此外，规划委员会的一个子集将访问一个AGEP计划，该计划被认为是一个基于毕业学生人数、博士后教师人数和进入教授职位的AGEP参与者人数的模型。为了完成这些任务，将成立四个小组委员会，以解决STEM数据收集和分析; AGEP目标，战略，活动，评估和评价;博士后培训，指导和务虚会规划;和资源。智力优点拟议的规划活动为亚拉巴马AGEP是重要的，以推进知识和理解的STEM研究生教育和博士后培训的领域内的元素。提案团队由教师，管理人员和研究生组成，他们非常有资格实施拟议的项目。拟议的博士后培训和指导将探索创造性，原创性和潜在的变革性概念。拟议项目将有足够的资源。拟议的规划活动将促进发现和理解，同时促进教学、培训、研究和学习，并根据项目参与者的性质，扩大代表性不足的群体的参与。研究、教育、网络和伙伴关系的基础设施将得到加强，项目成果将得到广泛传播。

Alabama's participation in the NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) activities ended in 2008. Alabama AGEP began with twelve institutions, six doctoral granting institutions and six non-doctoral granting institutions. The undergraduate institutions served as feeders for the doctoral granting institutions and are now supported by the Alabama Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program. Thus, it is now appropriate to develop a planning proposal to establish a new alliance consisting of only doctoral degree granting institutions that will collaborate with the LSAMP program for the recruitment of underrepresented minority STEM students and focus fully on the achievement of AGEP goals and objectives. While the former alliance was successful in increasing doctoral degree recipients, this move will serve to increase doctoral degree output even more, as well as include postdoctoral training. Planning is needed for this new alliance to re-align human resources, the research infrastructure, project management, budget priorities and develop an outstanding postdoctoral training program. In addition, an education component directed at preparing students for the professoriate is planned. Data collection and research on activities and programs that will maximize student networking and interactions across the alliance also require planning. To accomplish this, it is proposed that a planning committee consisting of faculty and administrators from the doctoral institutions, external consultants and graduate students be formed. The committee will review STEM education research findings and effective implementation strategies as well as STEM program assessments and evaluations. Data collection and analysis will also be a focus of the committee along with postdoctoral training and mentoring. The proposed planning committee will hold meetings and a retreat with stakeholders. In addition, a subset of the planning committee will visit an AGEP program considered to be a model based on the number of students graduated, postdoctoral faculty produced and number of AGEP participants entering the professoriate. To accomplish these tasks four subcommittees will be formed to address STEM data collection and analysis; AGEP goals, strategies, activities, assessment and evaluation; post doctoral training, mentoring and retreat planning; and resources. Intellectual Merit The proposed planning activities for Alabama AGEP are important to advancing knowledge and understanding of the elements of STEM graduate education and postdoctoral training within the fields. The proposal team consists of faculty, administrators and graduate students eminently qualified to implement the proposed project. The proposed postdoctoral training and mentoring will explore creative, original, and potentially transformative concepts. The proposed project will have sufficient access to resources. Broader Impacts The proposed planning activities will advance discovery and understanding while promoting teaching, training, research and learning, and by the nature of the project participants will broaden participation of underrepresented groups. The infrastructure for research, education, networks and partnerships will be enhanced and project results will be disseminated broadly.