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。在过去的六年中，MAA创建了一个可持续发展的社区，支持来自代表性不足的少数民族（URM）群体的学生的学术成功，他们正在获得工程，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追求职业生涯。根据他们迄今为止的经验，并通过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NSF和我们的大学在MAA中所做的投资的价值。它们要求得到支持，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，农村STEM占主导地位的机构，靠近一个大型的美洲原住民人口; 2）通过让URM博士后研究员参与旨在满足其专业需求的编程，并将他们与URM博士联系起来，扩大他们对博士后经验的关注。学生，使这两个群体都可以受益于对他们在博士后培训和教师职位途径中可用的机会的现实评估; 3）找到来自NSF支持的社会，行为和经济科学（SBE）的学生和教师与教师和学生谁参加AGEP STEM编程的协同作用;以及4）调整技术，以增加MAA合作伙伴之间以及与其他AGEP机构之间的互动和合作机会，并提供选定的专业发展计划。这笔赠款将资助规划，以加快联盟的能力，以推进我们的STEM社区增加多样性的使命。更广泛的影响：通过加强联盟的能力，以支持URM研究生的学术成功，并通过创建机制，以支持URM博士后学者的成功，他们将增加少数民族科学家在教授的代表性。

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.