SUNY AGEP: Best Practices for Institutionalization

纽约州立大学研究生教育和教授联盟(SUNY AGEP)成立于1999年，最初是一个少数族裔研究生教育项目，其中包括四个主要的纽约州立大学研究生教育机构：作为牵头机构的石溪大学及其战略合作伙伴奥尔巴尼大学、宾厄姆顿大学和布法罗大学。自S项目启动以来，这些机构已经为116名博士毕业生的职业和专业发展提供了支持，并为500多名学生和80个研究生项目提供了直接支持。AGEP联盟的更广泛目标是推动制度变革，以增加美国大学和学院中代表不足的少数族裔教师的数量。为了实现这一目标，联盟的每个合作伙伴都为其校园人口开发了一个个性化的计划。每个机构的多样化活动涵盖研究生经历的财务、学术、社会和专业发展方面；这些领域对未被充分代表的少数民族博士生成功完成学位和他们未来进入教授岗位至关重要。这一评价项目的目标是分析将通过该项目产生的最有效的政策和做法制度化所需的条件。为了实现这一目标，PI将通过总结性评价对项目的可衡量结果进行深入分析，以提供项目在招聘、留住和职业发展等关键领域的影响的证据。调查结果将揭示制度化的最佳做法以及未来探索和方案编制的机会。智力价值：大多数关于学业支持的研究集中在K-12和本科水平，因此迫切需要从研究生和职业发展的角度进行更多的数据和分析。该项目评价部分的结果将有助于建立关于STEM毕业生持之以恒和毕业的有效战略的知识库。更广泛的影响：NSF AGEP项目是一个开创性的项目，它引入了有效的模式来吸引和支持未被充分代表的少数族裔研究生走向成功。联盟的调查结果？S十年的历史将揭示招聘、留住和职业发展的有用程序和战略，这些程序和战略将被移植到纽约大学AGEP联盟内和其他地方的其他研究生项目。最终，这项研究将支持增加科学和工程工作人员以及学院中种族/民族代表性的努力。评价将以一份报告结束，以供出版。

The State University of New York Alliance for the Graduate Education and the Professoriate (SUNY AGEP) started in 1999 as a minority graduate education program that included four major SUNY institutions: Stony Brook University as lead institution and its strategic partners University at Albany, Binghamton University, and University at Buffalo. Since the program?s inception, these institutions have supported the career and professional development of 116 Ph.D. graduates and have provided direct support to over 500 students and 80 graduate programs. The broader goal of the AGEP Alliance is to catalyze institutional change to increase the number of underrepresented minority faculty at American universities and colleges. Working towards this goal, each Alliance partner has developed an individualized program for its campus population. The diversified activities at each institution cover financial, academic, social, and professional development aspects of the graduate student experience; areas that are critical for the successful degree completion of underrepresented minority doctoral students and their future advancement into the professoriate. The goal of this evaluation project is to analyze the conditions required for the institutionalization of the most effective policies and practices that emerged through the project. In pursuit of this goal the PI will conduct an in-depth analysis of the project's measurable outcomes through a summative evaluation that will provide evidence of project impact in key areas of recruitment, retention and career advancement. The findings will reveal best practices for institutionalization and opportunities for future exploration and programming. Intellectual Merit: Most of the studies of academic support focus on the K-12 and undergraduate levels, thus there is a critical need for more data and analysis from the perspective of graduate school and career advancement. The findings of the evaluation component of this project will contribute to the knowledge base on effective strategies for STEM graduate persistence and graduation. Broader Impacts: The NSF AGEP project is a pioneer program that has introduced effective models for engaging and supporting underrepresented minority graduate students towards success. The findings of the Alliance?s ten year history will reveal useful procedures and strategies for recruitment, retention and career advancement that will be transferable to other graduate programs within the SUNY AGEP Alliance and beyond. Ultimately, this research will support efforts to increase race/ethnicity representation in the science and engineering workforce as well as in the Academy. The evaluation will conclude with a report for publication.