PROMISE Pathways

马里兰州研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）提出了一个新的扩展联盟，名为“承诺路径项目”，旨在通过与其他机构合作，扩大之前两个AGEP项目的成功，增加代表性不足的少数民族学生（URM）在STEM领域攻读研究生学位的人数，增加URM研究生在STEM领域的保留率。为参与者提供更多的博士后机会，为教授培养研究生和博士后，并为各种机构的学术职业申请和机会提供便利。PROMISE成立于2002年，由马里兰大学巴尔的摩分校（UMBC）领导，是一个多机构联盟，包括马里兰大学巴尔的摩分校、马里兰大学帕克分校（UMCP）和马里兰大学巴尔的摩分校（UMB）。这个提议的PROMISE Pathways项目探索和发展了扩大当前联盟所需的基础设施，包括马里兰大学系统内的所有大学、四所马里兰州社区学院和波多黎各的前国家科学基金会卓越示范机构（MIE）西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）。承诺路径的新成员将建立在UMBC， UMCP和UMB在以前的AGEP资助下取得的招聘和留住成功的基础上，将各自的本科生转移到马里兰州授予博士学位的公立研究型大学的研究生项目，建立教师之间的关系，并为高级研究生和博士后提供指导教学和培训机会，以便他们能够成为下一代STEM教授。新的承诺路径项目的计划有四个主要组成部分：1。为来自马里兰州的未被充分代表的学生提供更多的渠道？攻读博士学位的学生。2. 在马里兰州建立一个更强大的STEM教师网络，促进涉及代表性不足的本科生和研究生的研究合作，并在全州范围内培养更强烈的指导代表性不足的STEM学生的意识。3. 提供马里兰?美国的STEM博士生人数不足，他们的项目促进了学院学术网络、专业发展和学位完成。4. 提供高级研究生和博士后互动研讨会，培训他们成为教授，并在广泛的机构中提供实践指导教学经验，包括研究机构，白人占主导地位的机构，历史上的黑人学院和大学，西班牙裔服务机构和社区学院。智力优势：PROMISE Pathways项目将促进更广泛的学术网络进行研究合作。它还将推动和告知研究生教育领域和扩大参与STEM的分学科，以及社区心理意识，以保留STEM的urm。该计划将探讨创意写作会议（例如申请/提案/论文/作品集），以指导学生准备文件。该项目还将开发一套指导教学机会，以促进教授的准备。这两个例子在培养新一代多样化教授方面都具有潜在的变革性。这些概念是基于7年来在较小层次上的成功项目，并正在考虑扩大。校园有资源、设施和行政支持来开展这一方案中的活动。更广泛的影响：这个路径项目促进了对保留、教学法和追求教授学位的影响因素的发现和理解。它通过同伴指导、教师指导的教学经验和培训/指导方法促进教学、培训和学习，为参与者的职业生涯中的每个里程碑做好准备。该项目通过特别关注将STEM中代表性不足的少数群体推向教授，扩大了代表性不足群体的参与。该项目还关注有形和无形残疾的参与者。该项目将加强合作院校之间专业发展活动的远程学习基础设施。结果将通过会议记录、期刊投稿、特别是通过PROMISE的博客和网站网络广泛传播。对社会的扩大影响将包括对方法和模型的理解，这些方法和模型可以促进URM STEM的保留和向教授的过渡。该项目旨在成为美国其他机构、联盟和大学系统可以复制的典范

PROMISE, the Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) in Maryland, proposes a new, expanded alliance, titled the PROMISE Pathways Project, that seeks to expand upon successes from two prior AGEP projects by partnering with additional institutions to increase the numbers of underrepresented minority students (URMs) who will pursue graduate degrees in STEM fields, increase the retention of URM graduate students in STEM, facilitate more postdoctoral opportunities for participants, prepare graduate students and postdoctoral fellows for the professoriate, and facilitate applications and opportunities for academic careers at a variety of institutions. Formed in 2002 and led by the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), PROMISE is a multi-institution consortium that includes UMBC, the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) and the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB). This proposed PROMISE Pathways project explores and develops the infrastructure needed to expand the current alliance to include potentially all of the universities within the University System of Maryland, four Maryland-based community colleges, and a former NSF Model Institution of Excellence (MIE) Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) in Puerto Rico. The new members of PROMISE Pathways will build upon the recruitment and retention successes that UMBC, UMCP, and UMB made with previous AGEP funding to move their respective undergraduate students to graduate programs at doctoral granting public research universities in Maryland, build relationships among faculty, and provide advanced graduate students and postdocs with mentored teaching and training opportunities so that they can be equipped to be the next generation of STEM professors. The plan for the new PROMISE Pathways project has four major components: 1. Creating an expanded pipeline of underrepresented students from Maryland?s institutions who will pursue doctoral degrees. 2. Developing a stronger network of STEM faculty within the State of Maryland who will facilitate research collaborations that will involve underrepresented undergraduate and graduate students, and foster a stronger sense of mentoring underrepresented students in STEM throughout the state. 3. Providing Maryland?s underrepresented STEM doctoral students with programs that facilitate collegial academic networks, professional development, and degree completion. 4. Offering advanced graduate students and postdocs interactive workshops that will train them for the professoriate along with hands-on, mentored teaching experiences at a wide range of institutions, including research institutions, Predominately White Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Community Colleges. Intellectual Merit: The PROMISE Pathways project will facilitate wider academic networks for research collaboration. It will also advance and inform the field of graduate education and the sub-disciplines of broadening participation in STEM and psychological sense of community for retention of URMs in STEM. The project will explore creative writing conferences (e.g. application/proposal/dissertation/portfolio house) to coach students through document preparation. The project will also develop a suite of mentored teaching opportunities to facilitate preparation for the professoriate. Both of these examples are potentially transformative with respect to developing a new generation of diverse professors. The concepts are based on 7 years of successful projects at smaller levels and are being considered for expansion. The campuses have the resources, facilities, and administrative support to develop the activities in this Pathways proposal. Broader Impacts: This Pathways project advances discovery and understanding of retention, pedagogy, and factors of influence for pursuing the professoriate. It promotes teaching, training, and learning through peer mentoring, mentored teaching experiences by faculty, and training/coaching methods that will prepare participants for each milestone in their careers. This project broadens the participation of underrepresented groups by specifically focusing on advancing underrepresented minorities in STEM toward the professoriate. The project also attends to participants with visible and invisible disabilities. This project will enhance the distance learning infrastructure for professional development activities between partner campuses. Results will be disseminated widely through conference proceedings, journal submissions, and particularly through the PROMISE network of blogs and websites. The expanded impact to society will include an understanding of methods and models that can facilitate URM STEM retention and transition to the professoriate. The project seeks to be a model that can be replicated for other institutions, alliances, and university systems in the U.S.