NEAGEP Summative Evaluation: Identifying Effective Strategies for Paving the Pathway to the Professoriate

东北研究生教育和教授联盟（NEAGEP）是一个高度互动的研究I和少数民族服务机构，包括私立和公立，以及大型和小型学校。通过试点和分享新的战略，该联盟为科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）博士的多样化做出了巨大贡献。东北的节目。从这些机构获得STEM博士学位的URM学生人数几乎翻了一番。不幸的是，既没有足够的学生数量，也没有足够的资金来有意义地评估什么策略是最有效的招聘和留住URM STEM博士生。与NSF AGEP计划的目标更相关的是，没有评估哪些因素影响URM STEM博士的职业选择以及哪些因素确保他们在学术界的成功。为了解决这些问题，PI小组将与TERC（一家STEM教育组织）的外部评估人员合作，进行NEAGEP范围内的总结性评估。评估人员将与当前STEM博士生和博士进行个人访谈。NEAGEP机构的毕业生，并征求所有NEAGEP协调员的投入，以开发两个在线调查。一项调查将对大约565名获得STEM博士学位的URM进行管理。学位在NEAGEP的10年，和其他超过550目前URM干博士生。研究结果将对NEAGEP下一阶段的新项目开发具有重要意义。智力优势：现在有足够多的学生在他们的职业生涯的不同点，使外部团队可以进行一个非常翔实的，大规模的评估NEAGEP程序。该团队将客观地评估什么类型的活动是最有效的多样化的STEM教授。重点将是招聘和保留活动，但更重要的是，什么活动影响这些学生在学术界追求职业生涯。这项评估将提供新的见解，对增加教授的多样性很重要，这是一个必须实现的目标，以便让更广泛的美国公民参与STEM。更广泛的影响：结果将产生信息，将通知程序的设计和修订，以招募URM本科生进入STEM研究生课程。此外，这些数据还将促进提高URM和非URM美国学生参与STEM的计划的制度化。最后，将公布评估结果，以便其他机构和联盟能够通过了解组成NEAGEP的大型和小型以及公立和私立大学的有效和无效措施来保护和/或更好地指导资源。研究与教学的整合：许多NEAGEP战略涉及研究与教学和学习的整合。通过正式评估这些战略的影响，将确定哪些是最有效的。然后将扩大有效的战略，以整合整个NEAGEP的研究和教学举措，并通过AGEP网络进行宣传。

The Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NEAGEP) is a highly interactive group of Research I and minority-serving institutions that includes private and public, as well as large and small schools. By piloting and sharing novel strategies, the Alliance has made a large contribution to diversifying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) Ph.D. programs in the Northeast. The number of URM students earning STEM doctorates from these institutions has nearly doubled. Unfortunately, there has been neither sufficient numbers of students nor funds to meaningfully evaluate what strategies are most effective for recruiting and retaining URM STEM doctoral students. Even more relevant to the goal of the NSF AGEP program, there has been no assessment of what factors influence career choices of URM STEM Ph.D.s and what factors ensure their success in academia. To address these issues, the PI group will work with external evaluators at TERC, a STEM education organization, to conduct a NEAGEP-wide summative evaluation. The evaluators will conduct personal interviews with current STEM doctoral students and Ph.D. graduates of NEAGEP institutions, and also solicit input from all NEAGEP coordinators to develop two on-line surveys. One survey will be administered to approximately 565 URMs who obtained STEM Ph.D. degrees during the 10 years of NEAGEP, and the other to the over 550 current URM STEM doctoral students. The results will be important for developing new programs in the next phase of NEAGEP. Intellectual Merit: There is now a sufficiently large population of students at different points in their careers so that an external team can conduct a very informative, large-scale evaluation of NEAGEP programs. The team will objectively assess what types of activities are most effective at diversifying the STEM professoriate. The focus will be on recruitment and retention activities, but, more importantly, on what activities influence these students to pursue careers in academia. This evaluation will provide new insights important for increasing diversity in the professoriate, a goal that must be achieved in order to engage a broader portion of the U.S. citizenry in STEM. Broader Impacts: The results will generate information that will inform the design and revision of programs to recruit URM undergraduates into STEM graduate programs. In addition, these data will also promote institutionalization of programs that increase participation of both URM and non-URM U.S. students in STEM. Finally, the evaluation findings will be published so that other institutions and alliances can conserve and/or better direct resources by learning what does and does not work in large and small, as well as public and private, universities that comprise NEAGEP. Integration of Research with Teaching and Learning: Many of the NEAGEP strategies involve integration of research with teaching and learning. By formally evaluating the impact of these strategies, it will be determined which are most effective. The effective strategies will then be expanded to integrate research and teaching initiatives across NEAGEP and publicized through the AGEP network.