Piloting an Inter-Ivy League Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate

试行常春藤联盟研究生教育和教授联盟

• 批准号: 1111162
• 负责人: Peter Weber
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Brown 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: 2011-08-01 至 2012-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1111162&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Piloting; Inter; Ivy; League; Alliance

To increase the number of graduate students and postdocs entering the professoriate in STEM disciplines,the Leadership Alliance, a national consortium of higher education institutions, in conjunction with itsmember institutions, Brown University and Columbia University, and in collaboration with four minorityserving institutions - Dillard University, Howard University, Morgan State University, and SpelmanCollege - will design, pilot, and rigorously evaluate activities to foster professional development, skills-building, mentoring, and career training. The activities of this project consist of (i) conducting abaseline needs analysis of the diversity efforts at Brown and Columbia to better understand issues andbarriers to establishing a sustainable institutional culture of diversity; (ii) investigating incentivemechanisms to promote the engagement of participating departmental faculty and administrators in theproposed mentoring and professional development activities to provide a supportive environment thatfosters successful outcomes; (iii) and identifying effective strategies to develop and implement mentoring,skills-building and professional development opportunities for underrepresented graduate students andpostdoctoral fellows.Intellectual MeritThis project will provide the first systematic effort to: (i) identify the professional development and career training needs of STEM graduate students and postdocs from underrepresented groups at leading researchinstitutions; (ii) evaluate best practices in training of doctoral students and postdocs; (iii) assess theeffectiveness of a comprehensive program of professional development workshops on the mentoring andskills-building of STEM graduate students and postdocs from underrepresented groups. Thecomprehensive, multi-faceted evaluation efforts of these interventions that employ the expertise of STEMfaculty members, senior administrators, an external evaluator, graduate students and postdocs from bothresearch-intensive and minority-serving institutions will provide a foundation upon which to designnovel, relevant and effective best practices, resources and initiatives that will prepare underrepresentedminority STEM graduate students and postdocs for the 21st century professoriate.Broader ImpactsThis project supplements earlier efforts to expand the pipeline of scholars from underrepresented groupsin STEM disciplines, which focus on pre-collegiate and undergraduate students. By firmly focusing ongraduate students and postdocs, who have already firmly committed their professional lives to STEMfields, this project's overarching goal is to give them the skills to ensure professional success. The largerobjective is to encourage the creation of sustainable institutional cultures and programs that will increasethe diversity of the professoriate in STEM disciplines, not simply at Brown and Columbia but across the32 members of the Leadership Alliance consortium and at other institutions of higher learning. Thisproject's broad impact will take five specific, measurable forms. First, it will provide research universities nationwide with a review and evaluation of existing professional development, career training, skills-building,and mentoring programs for graduate students and postdocs from underrepresented groups atinstitutions across the United States. Second, this project will design, pilot, and assess replicableworkshops in areas essential to the professional success of future STEM faculty. Third, the project willcreate and test instructional resources that will be readily available to institutions of higher learning via project website. Fourth, the project will provide postdocs from underrepresented groups authenticteaching experience to be better positioned for a future career as a professor. Fifth, this project will alter institutional cultures at leading research institutions by placing a greater emphasis on mentoring,professional development, skills-building, and career training to prepare students and postdocs to progresssuccessfully along the academic pathway. All best practices in professional development and evaluationsof the practices' effectiveness will be disseminated through the Leadership Alliance consortium, theproject website, and public presentations and other outreach efforts. Through these activities this noveland potent Inter-Ivy AGEP will contribute to the societal goal of increased representation ofunderrepresented scholars as research leaders of the 21st century professoriate.

为了增加STEM学科的研究生和博士后人数，领导力联盟将与其成员机构布朗大学和哥伦比亚大学以及四所少数服务机构--迪拉德大学、霍华德大学、摩根州立大学和斯佩尔曼学院--合作，设计、试点和严格评估促进专业发展、技能建设、指导和职业培训的活动。该项目的活动包括：(I)对布朗大学和哥伦比亚大学的多样性努力进行基本的需求分析，以更好地了解建立可持续的多元化机构文化的问题和障碍；(Ii)调查激励机制，以促进参与拟议的指导和专业发展活动的院系教职员工和管理人员参与建议的指导和职业发展活动，以提供一个有利于促进成功结果的支持性环境；(Iii)确定有效的战略，为代表性不足的研究生和博士后开发和实施指导、技能建设和专业发展机会。(Ii)评估博士生和博士后培训方面的最佳做法；(Iii)评估关于STEM研究生和博士后代表不足群体的指导和技能培养的综合专业发展讲习班计划的有效性。这些干预措施的全面、多方面的评估工作利用了STEM教员、高级管理人员、外部评估员、研究生和博士后的专业知识，这些干预措施将提供一个基础，以设计新颖、相关和有效的最佳做法、资源和倡议，为21世纪的教授培养代表不足的少数族裔STEM研究生和博士后。通过坚定地将重点放在研究生和博士后身上，他们已经坚定地将自己的职业生涯献给了STEMfield，该项目的总体目标是赋予他们确保职业成功的技能。更大的目标是鼓励创造可持续的制度文化和项目，这将增加STEM学科教授的多样性，不仅是在布朗大学和哥伦比亚大学，而且在领导力联盟联盟的32个成员和其他高等教育机构。该项目的广泛影响将采取五种具体的、可衡量的形式。首先，它将为全国研究型大学提供对现有专业发展、职业培训、技能建设以及针对美国各地机构中代表性不足群体的研究生和博士后的指导计划的审查和评估。其次，该项目将在对未来STEM教员的专业成功至关重要的领域设计、试点和评估可复制的研讨会。第三，该项目将创建和测试教学资源，这些资源将通过项目网站随时提供给高等院校。第四，该项目将为代表不足群体的博士后提供真正的教学经验，以便更好地为未来的教授职业生涯做准备。第五，该项目将改变领先研究机构的机构文化，更加重视指导、专业发展、技能建设和职业培训，为学生和博士后在学术道路上取得成功做好准备。将通过领导能力联盟联盟、项目网站、公开介绍和其他外联努力传播在专业发展和评价做法有效性方面的所有最佳做法。通过这些活动，这一新颖而有力的常春藤联盟间AGEP将有助于实现社会目标，即增加代表学者作为21世纪教授研究带头人的代表性。