A Planning Grant to Enrich and Enlarge the Michigan AGEP Alliance

丰富和扩大密歇根 AGEP 联盟的规划拨款

• 批准号: 1110556
• 负责人: Janet Weiss
• 金额: $ 14.96万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-01 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1110556&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Enrich; Enlarge; Michigan

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.

密歇根AGEP联盟（MAA）由密歇根大学、密歇根州立大学、韦恩州立大学和西密歇根大学组成。在过去的六年里，MAA创建了一个可持续发展的社区，支持来自未被充分代表的少数民族（URM）群体的学生取得学业上的成功，这些学生正在获得工程、物理科学、生命科学、数学、社会和行为科学的博士学位，并鼓励和准备他们在学术界从事职业。根据他们迄今为止的经验，并根据对促进学位完成和向教师职业过渡的因素的研究，他们确定了有前途的战略，以利用国家科学基金会和我们的大学在MAA中所做投资的价值。他们要求得到支持，以丰富其联盟的知识和方案基础。智力优势：他们将探索的新方向包括：1)增加第五个合作机构：密歇根理工大学？一个小型的、以stem为主导的农村机构，靠近大量的美洲原住民；2)扩大对博士后经验的关注，让博士后参与满足其专业需求的规划，并将他们与URM博士学生联系起来，以便双方都能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)发现将nsf支持的社会、行为和经济科学（SBE）的学生和教师与参与STEM AGEP编程的教师和学生整合在一起所产生的协同效应；4)调整技术以增加MAA合作伙伴之间以及与其他AGEP机构之间的互动和协作机会，并提供选定的专业发展计划。这笔拨款将用于资助加快联盟能力的规划，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研究生学业成功的能力，以及通过建立支持URM博士后学者成功的机制，他们将增加少数民族科学家在教授中的代表性。