IOWA AGEP Evaluation Study

爱荷华州 AGEP 评估研究

• 批准号: 1111186
• 负责人: John Keller
• 金额: $ 14.96万
• 依托单位: University of Iowa
• 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=1111186&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IOWA; AGEP; Evaluation; Study

The IOWA AGEP program is an alliance of the three Board of Regents institutions in the State of Iowa: The University of Iowa (UI), Iowa State University (ISU) and the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). The IOWA AGEP alliance is aimed at making institutional changes for a sustained increase in the number of under-represented minorities (URMs) progressing toward the STEM professoriate. Each institution made substantial contributions to the success of their alliance since funding of the original AGEP grant. A key goal was to spread the success in UI?s Mathematics Department through a strategic partnership in Mathematics and Statistics at both ISU and UNI. That initial success gained momentum, and the concepts were disseminated to and adopted by several disciplines across all three institutions.Specific programmatic approaches included: 1) collectively fostered faculty driven relationships with undergraduate institutions and institutional consortiums; 2) initiation and/or expansion of summer research program opportunities; 3) building programs and fostering a culture of personalized attention and mentorship with meaningful and comprehensive professional development programs; 4) establishment and/or expansion of institutional funding for URM graduate students; and 5) growth of a partnership between the masters programs at UNI with PhD programs at ISU and UI in order to facilitate smooth transition between the institutions. The results have been an increase in the number of URM STEM graduate students with some evidence for their students entering STEM postdoctoral positions that have or will lead to faculty positions.The institutionalization of these practices has been proven by their sustained AGEP efforts. The collective approaches being undertaken by their institutions make the IOWA AGEP alliance an appropriate consortium to investigate best practices in not only recruiting, matriculating and graduating high quality doctoral students, but also developing postdoctoral programs to foster career progression to the professoriate.Their proposed evaluation study will rigorously review their past efforts and lay a solid foundation for determining how they can more effectively advance postdoctoral trainees to the professoriate and cultivate a faculty environment that will more readily accept hiring URM faculty candidates. This grant is designed to provide clear evidence for the impact of the overall program, and specific program elements are targeted to improve the progression of URMs to the professoriate. The project?s three goals are to: 1) evaluate the career paths of URM STEM graduate students, comparing AGEP and other students; 2) identify the most impactful AGEP practices; and 3) develop compelling evidence to identify primary paths and barriers to entering the professoriate after PhD completion. For Goals 1 and 2, they will study academic progression (types of degree programs, times to degree, percent completion, etc.) of their students, and they will study the postgraduate employment decisions of their graduates. For Goal 3, they will also begin to study the hiring practices that STEM departments/colleges are taking at their Regents institutions through collaboration with the NSF-funded ISU ADVANCE program. They will leverage the ISU ADVANCE work that has identified barriers to the faculty search and hiring process. With the ISU ADVANCE and IOWA AGEP programming having some approaches with focal departments and some with university-wide approaches, comparison of outcomes across programs will be evaluated to determine if university wide or focal departments has a greater impact.INTELLECTUAL MERIT: The evaluation studies will generate knowledge supporting the approaches to broadening participation, the value of an alliance, and the approach of having focal departments or disciplines. Using multiple data sources (local surveys, focus groups, and national surveys such as COACHE) and newly developed instruments, methods to mine and combine these data sources will be investigated to establish baseline data and approaches for future studies. Analysis of data comparing the impact of department-focused activities vs. campus-wide initiatives will provide other programs focused on institutional change with guidance on how to pursue their changes.BROADER IMPACTS: The work will be disseminated in archival publications to provide others with information and evidence of effective practices developed in the IOWA AGEP alliance for the recruitment and retention of URMs. The study concerning faculty attitudes toward postdoctoral programs and faculty hiring will add further evidence to the literature on the areas where interventions are needed to address barriers in broadening participation in the professoriate. The results will be used directly to design new interventions in postdoctoral programs and faculty hiring practices and provide a basis for future studies.

爱荷华州AGEP计划是爱荷华州三个董事会机构的联盟：爱荷华州大学（UI），爱荷华州州立大学（ISU）和北方爱荷华州大学（UNI）。爱荷华州AGEP联盟旨在进行体制变革，以持续增加代表性不足的少数民族（URM）的数量，并向STEM教授迈进。自最初的AGEP赠款供资以来，每个机构都为其联盟的成功作出了重大贡献。一个关键的目标是在UI中传播成功？通过ISU和UNI的数学和统计战略合作伙伴关系，与ISU的数学系建立了伙伴关系。最初的成功获得了动力，概念被传播到所有三个机构的几个学科并被采用。具体的方案方法包括：1）集体培养教师与本科院校和机构联盟的关系; 2）启动和/或扩大夏季研究计划的机会; 3）建立计划和培养个性化的关注和指导文化，有意义的和全面的专业发展计划; 4）建立和/或扩大URM研究生的机构资金;以及5）UNI硕士课程与ISU和UI博士课程之间的伙伴关系的发展，以促进机构之间的平稳过渡。结果是URM STEM研究生人数的增加，有证据表明他们的学生进入STEM博士后职位，这些职位已经或将导致教师职位。这些做法的制度化已经通过他们持续的AGEP努力得到证明。他们的机构正在采取的集体方法使爱荷华州AGEP联盟成为一个适当的财团，不仅可以调查招聘，录取和毕业高质量博士生的最佳做法，他们提出的评估研究将严格审查他们过去的努力，并为确定如何更有效地发展奠定坚实的基础博士后学员教授和培养教师的环境，将更容易接受雇用URM教师候选人。该补助金旨在为整体计划的影响提供明确的证据，具体的计划要素旨在改善URM向教授的进展。项目？的三个目标是：1）评估URM STEM研究生的职业道路，比较AGEP和其他学生; 2）确定最有影响力的AGEP实践;和3）开发令人信服的证据，以确定主要路径和障碍进入博士毕业后的教授。对于目标1和2，他们将研究学术进展（学位课程的类型，获得学位的时间，完成百分比等）。他们将研究其毕业生的研究生就业决定。对于目标3，他们还将开始研究STEM部门/学院通过与NSF资助的ISU ADVANCE计划合作在其摄政机构采取的招聘做法。他们将利用ISU ADVANCE的工作，该工作已经确定了教师搜索和招聘过程中的障碍。由于ISU ADVANCE和爱荷华州AGEP方案的一些方法与重点部门有关，一些方法与全校范围的方法有关，因此将对各方案的成果进行比较，以确定是全校范围的还是重点部门的影响更大。评价研究将产生知识，支持扩大参与的办法，联盟的价值，以及有重点部门或学科的方法。利用多种数据来源（地方调查、焦点小组和全国调查，如COACHE）和新开发的工具，将调查挖掘和联合收割机结合这些数据来源的方法，以建立基线数据和未来研究的方法。比较部门为重点的活动与校园范围内的举措的影响的数据分析将提供其他程序专注于机构变革与指导如何追求他们的changes.BroADER IMPLEMENTARY：这项工作将在档案出版物中传播，为其他人提供信息和证据的有效做法开发的爱荷华州AGEP联盟的招聘和保留的URMs。关于教师对博士后项目和教师招聘的态度的研究将进一步证明需要干预的领域的文献，以解决在教授中扩大参与的障碍。研究结果将直接用于设计博士后项目和教师招聘实践的新干预措施，并为未来的研究提供基础。