A Planning Grant to Enrich and Enlarge the Michigan AGEP Alliance

密歇根AGEP联盟(MAA)是密歇根大学、密歇根州立大学、韦恩州立大学和西密歇根大学的合作伙伴关系。在过去的六年里，MAA创建了一个可持续的社区，支持来自未被充分代表的少数群体(URM)的学生获得工程、物理科学、生命科学、数学、社会和行为科学的博士学位，并鼓励他们在学术界追求职业生涯，并为他们的学术成功做好准备。根据他们到目前为止的经验，并通过对促进学位完成和向教师职业生涯过渡的因素的研究，他们确定了有希望的战略，以利用NSF和我们的大学在MAA中所做投资的价值。他们请求得到支持，以丰富其联盟的智力和方案基础。学术价值：他们将探索的新方向包括：1)增加第五个合作机构：密歇根技术大学？一个小型的农村STEM主导的机构，靠近大量的美洲原住民人口；2)通过让URM博士后研究员参与旨在满足他们专业需求的编程，并将他们与URM博士后学生联系起来，扩大他们对博士后体验的关注，使两个群体都可以从对博士后培训机会和教师职位途径的现实评估中受益；3)发现来自NSF支持的社会、行为和经济科学(SBE)的学生和教职员工与参与STEM AGEP规划的教职员工之间的协同效应；以及4)调整技术，以增加MAA合作伙伴和其他AGEP机构之间的互动和合作机会，并提供选定的专业发展计划。这笔赠款将为加快联盟能力的规划提供资金，以推进我们STEM社区增加多样性的使命。更广泛的影响：通过加强联盟支持URM研究生学术成功的能力，以及通过创建支持URM博士后学者成功的机制，他们将增加少数族裔科学家在教授中的代表性。

The Michigan AGEP Alliance (MAA) is a partnership of University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Wayne State University, and Western Michigan University. Over the past six years, the MAA has created a sustainable community that supports the academic success of students from underrepresented minority (URM) groups who are earning doctoral degrees in engineering, physical science, life science, mathematics, social and behavioral sciences, and encourages and prepares them to pursue careers in academia. Based on their experience thus far, and informed by research on factors that promote degree completion and transition to faculty careers, they have identified promising strategies to leverage the value of the investments that NSF and our universities have made in the MAA. They request support to enrich the intellectual and programmatic foundations of their alliance. Intellectual Merit: The new directions they will explore include: 1) Adding a fifth partner institution: Michigan Technological University?a small, rural STEM-dominant institution closely located to a large Native American population; 2) Expanding their focus on the postdoctoral experience by engaging URM postdoctoral fellows in programming designed to meet their professional needs, and linking them with URM Ph.D. students so that both groups may benefit from a realistic appraisal of the opportunities available to them in postdoctoral training and the pathways to faculty positions; 3) Finding the synergy that comes from integrating students and faculty from NSF-supported social, behavioral and economic sciences (SBE) with faculty and students who participate in AGEP programming in STEM; and 4) Adapting technology to increase opportunities for interaction and collaboration across the MAA partner and with other AGEP institutions, and for delivery of selected professional development programs. This grant will underwrite planning to accelerate the capacity of the alliance to carry forward the mission of increased diversity in our STEM community. Broader Impact: By strengthening the ability of the alliance to support the academic success of URM graduate students, and by creating mechanisms to support the success of URM postdoctoral scholars, they will increase the representation of minority scientists in the professoriate.