The Universities Network for Leadership Through Diversity (UN-LTD): Developing a Successful Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program for Broadening Participation in Science and Engineering

大学多样性领导力网络 (UN-LTD)：开发成功的硕士到博士桥梁课程，以扩大科学和工程领域的参与

• 批准号: 1110924
• 负责人: Dennis Hall
• 金额: $ 14.98万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 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: 2011-07-01 至 2014-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1110924&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Universities; Network; Leadership; Through; Diversity

Vanderbilt proposes the UN-LTD Partnership as an innovative pathway to the PhD and beyond for substantially broadening participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM. The nucleus of UN-LTD is the highly successful Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge program, in which students earn a Master's degree at Fisk as a stepping stone to the PhD program at Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt and Fisk are joined in this AGEP by Delaware State University (DSU). Columbia University and neighboring Hunter College will serve as an independent proving ground for transferring and replicating the model. UN-LTD's path to the PhD and to the professoriate emphasizes research engagement and deliberate mentorship by faculty at PhD granting institutions to help students cross the aspirational and institutional transitions. The educational components of UN-LTD include recruitment, graduate training and mentoring, research internships, networking and professional development, along with deliberate preparation for the next level of STEM engagement. With this planning grant they will be developing their program in preparation for a full AGEP.The goal of their full AGEP program will be to produce at least 10 times the U.S. institutional average number of minority PhD recipients in these disciplines, and to sustain this level in steady state.UN-LTD's three objectives will be to:1. Expand the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program to include all core STEM disciplines at Fisk and Vanderbilt: Physics, Astronomy, Materials Science, Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Engineering.2. Extend the Bridge Program in partnership with Delaware State University. The resulting Fisk- Vanderbilt-DSU Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program will permit students to transition from the MS at Fisk to the PhD at Vanderbilt, from the MS at Fisk to the PhD at DSU, or from the MS at DSU to the PhD at Vanderbilt.3. Export the Bridge Program to Columbia University and its neighboring partners, as an experiment in knowledge transfer and institutional-change model portability and adaptability.With this planning grant, they will pilot four key components of their eventual full AGEP program: (1) A multi-tiered management structure, designed to integrally involve key stakeholders both vertically and horizontally through the UN-LTD alliance; (2) a multi-faceted approach to program evaluation, research, and dissemination, designed to document our successes and failures, track our progress, inform ongoing refinement of their AGEP program, and contribute to the emerging body of scholarship on the science of broadening participation; (3) a discipline-by-discipline expansion of the Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program model; and (4) a concentric mentoring structure, including leadership development for postdoctoral associateswho also serve as near-peer mentors for the AGEP graduate fellows.Intellectual Merit includes the synergistic areas of collaborative research in biology, chemistry, physics, materials science, astronomy, mathematics, computer science, and engineering that will engage MS and PhD students at the alliance institutions; the refinement, demonstration, and replication of a department level model of institutional change that will be proven to nurture the success and PhD attainment of underrepresented minority students; and thorough evaluation to monitor the approaches, recruiting, experiences, and retention in the various fields to see if there are differences, understand the causes of the differences, identify best practices, and design interventions that overcome problems.Broader impacts include dramatic increases in the production of well prepared, underrepresented minority PhDs by the participating institutions; rich interdisciplinary interaction and cross-fertilization of ideas among the faculty and students in the diverse STEM disciplines involved in UN-LTD; the enhancement of research capacity and graduate STEM programs at the participating minority-serving institutions; and positive transformations in the departmental culture at the research universities to become more inclusive, supportive, and nurturing of talent.

范德比尔特建议将联合国-有限公司伙伴关系作为获得博士学位及以后的创新途径，大幅扩大未被充分代表的少数群体在STEM中的参与。联合国-有限公司的核心是非常成功的菲斯克-范德比尔特硕士到博士桥项目，学生在菲斯克获得硕士学位，作为进入范德比尔特博士项目的垫脚石。范德比尔特和菲斯克由特拉华州立大学(DSU)参加了这次AGEP。哥伦比亚大学和邻近的亨特学院将作为转移和复制这种模式的独立试验场。联合国-LTD的博士和教授之路强调研究参与和博士授予机构的教职员工刻意指导，以帮助学生跨越理想和机构的过渡。联合国-有限公司的教育部分包括招聘、研究生培训和指导、研究实习、网络和专业发展，以及为下一阶段的STEM参与做好有意的准备。有了这笔规划拨款，他们将发展他们的计划，为全面的AGE做准备。他们完整的AGEP计划的目标是在这些学科中产生至少10倍于美国机构平均水平的少数族裔博士获得者，并在稳定的状态下保持这一水平。联合国有限公司的三个目标将是：1.扩大菲斯克-范德比尔特硕士到博士桥计划，将菲斯克和范德比尔特的所有核心STEM学科包括在内：物理学、天文学、材料科学、生物、化学、数学、计算机科学和工程学。与特拉华州立大学合作，延长桥梁项目。由此产生的FISK-Vanderbilt-DSU硕士到博士桥梁计划将允许学生从FISK的硕士过渡到Vanderbilt的博士，从FISK的MS过渡到DSU的博士，或从DSU的MS过渡到Vanderbilt的博士。向哥伦比亚大学及其邻近合作伙伴输出桥梁计划，作为知识转移和体制变革模式可移植性和适应性的试验。有了这笔规划赠款，他们将试行其最终完整的AGEP计划的四个关键组成部分：(1)多层管理结构，旨在通过联合国-LTD联盟纵向和横向地整合关键利益攸关方；(2)多方面的计划评估、研究和传播方法，旨在记录我们的成功和失败，跟踪我们的进展，为正在进行的AGEP计划的改进提供信息，并为关于扩大参与的科学的新兴学术机构做出贡献；(3)逐个学科扩展硕士到博士桥梁计划模式；以及(4)同心指导结构，包括博士后伙伴的领导力发展，他们也是AGEP研究生研究员的近乎同行的导师。智力上的好处包括生物、化学、物理、材料科学、天文学、数学、计算机科学和工程学等领域的协同研究，这将使联盟机构的MS和博士学生参与进来；改进、示范和复制院系级别的制度变革模式，将被证明有助于培养代表不足的少数族裔学生的成功和博士学位；更广泛的影响包括：参与机构培养准备充分、代表性不足的少数民族博士的数量急剧增加；参与联合国系统的不同STEM学科的教职员工之间进行了丰富的跨学科互动和思想交流；参与的少数群体服务机构的研究能力和STEM研究生项目得到加强；研究型大学的部门文化发生了积极的变化，变得更加包容、支持和培养人才。