Baltimore Washington Alliance AGEP Planning Grant

霍华德大学、乔治城大学和摩根州立大学组成了巴尔的摩-华盛顿地区联盟（BWA），并将为这个项目进行规划活动。通过计划拨款，BWA打算评估当前研究生对教师职位的兴趣，并通过调查和其他评估数据加强现有的霍华德- utep准备未来学院（PFF）和博士后研究所（PDI）。知识价值。由于日益全球化的经济对科学和技术的需求日益增长，美国比以往任何时候都更需要受过科学训练的公民。这种不断增长的需求与美国人口结构的重大变化相吻合，在美国，历史上在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科中代表性不足的少数民族人口正在成为人口中越来越大的份额。确保这些人口获得必要的STEM培训是一个重要的国家目标，增加来自这些背景的STEM教授的数量是一个重要的步骤——作为公平问题和政策问题。该规划项目将借鉴研究文献中的发现，探讨为少数族裔STEM学生创建智力和社会社区的重要性，打破将他们与非正式科学文化隔离开来的障碍，并创造这些学生可能没有的专业交流机会。规划项目还借鉴了针对美国国家科学基金会的研究。研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）计划，从该计划的研究中吸取经验教训，建立一个更有凝聚力的高校联盟。在利用这项研究的过程中，该提案力求使个别机构的努力连贯一致，使它们的作用大于各部分的总和。BWA将利用大都市地区的资源，为少数民族学生提供丰富的专业发展机会，并利用3所主要大学的资源，以解决有关STEM少数民族学生需求的研究结果。它将以最大限度地提高国家AGEP计划支持下的项目效率的方式做到这一点。更广泛的影响。该计划资助的活动将影响美国两所大学的STEM研究生教育。美国是培养非裔美国人STEM博士的主要国家，因此将对非裔美国人进入教授岗位的渠道产生显著的全国影响。此外，现有PFF和PDI的预期增强将增加BWA学生和联盟以外大学学生的专业发展和交流机会。该项目还建立在一个由14所大学组成的现有联盟的基础上，包括设计一个结构化的、基于互联网的、联盟范围的博士后机会和教师职位列表网络。该网络将创建一个STEM培训少数族裔的注册表，联盟中的所有14所学校都可以从中招募新的教师和博士后。该项目还将改进学生水平数据，包括他们教育生涯中的里程碑。

Howard University, Georgetown University, and Morgan State University have formed the Baltimore-Washington Area Alliance (BWA) and will undertake planning activities with this project. With the planning grant, BWA intends to assess current graduate student interest in faculty positions and to strengthen the existing Howard-UTEP Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) and Postdoc Institutes (PDI) informed by survey and other evaluation data. Intellectual Merit. Because of growing science and technology needs of an increasingly globalized economy, the United States is in greater need than ever before of a scientifically trained citizenry. This growing need coincides with significant demographic changes in the U.S., where minority populations that historically have been underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines are becoming an ever-larger share of the population. Ensuring that this population gains access to necessary training in STEM is an important national goal, and increasing the number of STEM professors from these backgrounds is an important step---as a matter of equity and as a matter of policy. This planning project will draw on findings from research literature about the importance of creating intellectual and social community for minority STEM students, breaking down barriers that isolate them from the informal culture of science, and creating professional networking opportunities that these students otherwise might not have. The planning project also draws on research that is specific to the National Science Foundation?s Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program, taking lessons learned from research about the program to create a more cohesive Alliance of colleges and universities. In drawing on this research, the proposal seeks to make the efforts of individual institutions coherent, allowing them to become more than the sum of their parts. BWA will leverage resources of a metropolitan area that is rich in professional development opportunities for minority students and the resources of 3 major universities in ways that address research-based findings about the needs of STEM minority students. It will do so in ways that maximize the efficacy of projects under the aegis of the national AGEP program.Broader Impact. The activities in this planning grant will influence STEM graduate education at two of the nation?s leading producers of African American STEM PhDs and will therefore have a noteworthy national effect on the pipeline of African Americans entering the professoriate. Additionally, the anticipated enhancement of the extant PFF and PDI will increase professional development and networking opportunities for BWA students and students from universities beyond the Alliance. The project also builds upon an existing consortium of 14 universities and includes the intention to design a structured, internet based, consortium-wide network of postdoc opportunities and faculty position listings. This network will create a registry of STEM trained minorities from which all 14 of the schools in the consortium can recruit new faculty and postdocs. This project will also improve the student level data including milestones in their educational careers.