Alabama Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Planning Activity

阿拉巴马大学参与的美国国家科学基金会研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）活动于2008年结束。阿拉巴马州AGEP最初有12个机构，6个博士学位授予机构和6个非博士学位授予机构。本科院校为博士授予机构提供资助，现在由阿拉巴马州路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划提供支持。因此，现在应该制定一项计划提案，建立一个仅由博士学位授予机构组成的新联盟，与LSAMP项目合作，招募代表性不足的少数族裔STEM学生，并充分关注AGEP目标的实现。虽然前联盟在增加博士学位获得者方面取得了成功，但此举将有助于进一步增加博士学位产出，并包括博士后培训。这个新联盟需要规划，重新调整人力资源、研究基础设施、项目管理、预算优先级，并制定一个杰出的博士后培训计划。此外，还计划设立一个教育部分，使学生为成为教授做好准备。数据收集和研究活动和项目，将最大限度地扩大学生网络和整个联盟的互动也需要规划。为此，建议成立一个计划委员会，由博士院校的教员和管理人员、外部顾问和研究生组成。该委员会将审查STEM教育的研究成果和有效的实施策略，以及STEM项目的评估和评估。数据收集和分析以及博士后培训和指导也将成为委员会的重点。拟议的规划委员会将与利益相关者举行会议和静修。此外，计划委员会的一个子集将访问一个AGEP项目，该项目被认为是基于毕业学生数量、培养博士后教师数量和进入教授职位的AGEP参与者数量的模型。为了完成这些任务，将成立四个小组委员会来处理STEM数据的收集和分析；AGEP的目标、策略、活动、评估和评价；博士后培训、辅导、退修策划；和资源。为阿拉巴马州AGEP提出的规划活动对于促进对该领域内STEM研究生教育和博士后培训要素的认识和理解非常重要。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所提议的项目。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。拟议的项目将有足够的资源。更广泛的影响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，并且根据项目参与者的性质，将扩大代表性不足群体的参与。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.