AGEP-T: Collaborative Research: Advancing Interdisciplinary STEM Graduate Education in Energy and Sustainability Disciplines

AGEP-T：合作研究：推进能源和可持续发展学科的跨学科 STEM 研究生教育

• 批准号: 1308163
• 负责人: Angela Spaulding
• 金额: $ 10.66万
• 依托单位: West Texas A&M University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-15 至 2019-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1308163&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AGEP; Collaborative; Research; Advancing; Interdisciplinary

The Texas A&M University System (TAMU) Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate was created in response to the NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program solicitation (NSF 12-554) for the AGEP-Transformation (AGEP-T) track. The AGEP-T track targets strategic alliances of institutions and organizations to develop, implement, and study innovative evidence-based models and standards for STEM graduate education, postdoctoral training, and academic STEM career preparation that eliminate or mitigate negative factors and promote positive practices for URMs.The TAMU Alliance is a collaboration between five doctoral degree granting institutions who are members of the Texas A&M University System, to advance URMs around the unifying theme of Energy and Sustainability. The collaborating institutions include: Texas A&M University Main Campus (TAMUMC), Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMU-K), Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), West Texas A&M University (WTAMU), and Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (TAMUCC). These institutions are engaging the following non-doctoral degree institutions who are also members of the Texas A&M University System: Texas A&M International University (TAMUI), Texas A&M-San Antonio (TAMUSA), Texas A&M-Texarkana (TAMUT), Tarleton State University (TSU), and Texas A&M-Commerce (TAMUC). The vision of the collaboration is to develop an AGEP Alliance that opens multiple paths to the doctorate and professoriate for underrepresented minority (URM) populations by successfully developing and sustaining large-scale, distributed, yet interconnected STEM communities among the diverse Alliance institutions that increase participation, reduce barriers, and promote success of URM doctoral students preparing for careers in the professoriate.The long-term goal of the TAMU AGEP Alliance is to increase the number of successful URM STEM faculty by measurably increasing the number of STEM doctoral degrees awarded to URM students each year and increasing the number of underrepresented minorities (URMs) transitioning to STEM faculty positions (or to competitive postdocs that lead to faculty positions).The short-term operational goal of the TAMU AGEP Alliance is to develop, implement and assess a set of transportable strategies to ultimately increase the number of successful URM STEM faculty by increasing the number of URMs who enter participating doctoral programs, the percentage of URMs completing STEM doctoral degrees, and the number who transition to faculty positions (or to competitive postdoctoral positions), and by reducing their time to doctoral degree.There are four defined objectives for the TAMU AGEP Alliance participants, who are all U.S. citizens, who are URMs in STEM. The Alliance defines a student participant as an URM U.S. citizen, with a demonstrated interest in energy and sustainability, who is classified as a doctoral or master degree student. Objectives follow:Objective 1. Increase the number of URMs entering STEM doctoral degree programs at the five collaborating TAMU AGEP institutions.Objective 2. Reduce the average time to degree for the TAMU AGEP Alliance URM STEM doctoral students, and increase the percentage of students across the Alliance completing their doctoral degree in five years.Objective 3. Provide the TAMU AGEP Alliance students with the preparation necessary to compete for faculty positions and increase the number of URMs transitioning from STEM Ph.D. programs to faculty or competitive postdoctoral positions.Objective 4. Foster TAMU research collaborations to support Alliance-wide collaboration with undergraduate, master's and PhD student researchers that will result in an increase in the number of URM STEM doctoral research dissertations co-advised by faculty from at least 2 partner institutions.The interventions that form the model for the TAMU AGEP Alliance include: joint institutional recruitment of URM doctoral STEM students; participation of institutions and prospective students in an annual alliance conference; use of regional travel, a virtual social network, and webinars to provide community building and joint mentoring opportunities for AGEP doctoral students; student retention stipends based on level of project participation and timely progress toward degree; student participation in research and professional development training conferences, a mini-grant competition for research seed funding, a learning community, and transitioning activities for post-doctoral fellowship placement and/or faculty positions; and engage faculty in cross-institutional collaborations and partnerships with the NSF-funded Research Coordination Network (RCN-SEES): Climate, Energy, Environment and Engagement in Semiarid Regions (CE3SAR).The TAMU AGEP Alliance social science research study focuses on two questions related to feelings of inclusion of URM STEM graduate students at each of the Alliance institutions in both experimental and applied settings: 1) What effect does experiencing isolation or ostracism have on the productivity and progress of URM STEM graduate students and their intentions to continue to the professoriate? 2) What factors (e.g., institutional, interpersonal, individual) promote or mediate against URM STEM students' experiencing feelings of isolation or ostracism?

德克萨斯农工大学系统（TAMU）研究生教育和教授联盟是根据美国国家科学基金会（NSF）研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）项目招标（NSF 12-554）为AGEP-转换（AGEP- t）轨道而创建的。AGEP-T的目标是机构和组织的战略联盟，以开发、实施和研究创新的基于证据的模型和标准，用于STEM研究生教育、博士后培训和学术STEM职业准备，消除或减轻负面因素，促进urm的积极实践。TAMU联盟是由德克萨斯农工大学系统中五个博士学位授予机构组成的合作组织，旨在围绕能源和可持续发展这一统一主题推进urm。合作机构包括：德克萨斯农工大学主校区（TAMUMC）、德克萨斯农工大学金斯维尔分校（TAMU-K）、草原景观农工大学（PVAMU）、西德克萨斯农工大学（WTAMU）和德克萨斯农工大学科珀斯克里斯蒂分校（TAMUCC）。这些机构正在与以下非博士学位机构合作，这些机构也是德州农工大学系统的成员：德州农工国际大学（TAMUI）、德州农工大学圣安东尼奥分校（TAMUSA）、德州农工大学特克萨卡那分校（TAMUT）、塔尔顿州立大学（TSU）和德州农工大学移动商务（TAMUC）。合作的愿景是发展一个AGEP联盟，通过在不同的联盟机构中成功发展和维持大规模，分布式但相互关联的STEM社区，为代表性不足的少数民族（URM）人口开辟通往博士和教授的多种途径，从而增加参与，减少障碍，并促进URM博士生为教授职业做准备的成功。TAMU AGEP联盟的长期目标是通过显著增加每年授予URM学生的STEM博士学位的数量，增加未被充分代表的少数民族（URM）过渡到STEM教师职位（或竞争博士后，从而获得教师职位）的数量，来增加URM成功的STEM教师的数量。TAMU AGEP联盟的短期运作目标是制定、实施和评估一套可转移策略，通过增加进入参与博士项目的URM人数、完成STEM博士学位的URM比例、过渡到教师职位（或竞争激烈的博士后职位）的人数，以及减少获得博士学位的时间，最终增加URM STEM教师的数量。TAMU AGEP联盟的参与者有四个明确的目标，他们都是美国公民，都是STEM领域的urm。该联盟将学生参与者定义为URM美国公民，对能源和可持续性表现出兴趣，并被归类为博士或硕士学位学生。目标如下：在TAMU AGEP的五个合作机构中增加进入STEM博士学位课程的urm人数。目标2。缩短TAMU AGEP联盟URM STEM博士生获得学位的平均时间，并提高整个联盟学生在五年内完成博士学位的比例。目标3。为TAMU AGEP联盟的学生提供必要的准备，以竞争教师职位，并增加从STEM博士项目过渡到教师或有竞争力的博士后职位的urm数量。目标4。促进TAMU的研究合作，以支持与本科生，硕士和博士生研究人员的联盟范围内的合作，这将导致URM STEM博士研究论文的数量增加，这些论文将由至少两个合作机构的教师共同指导。TAMU AGEP联盟模式的干预措施包括：联合招收URM STEM博士生；院校和准学生参加年度联盟会议；利用区域旅行、虚拟社交网络和网络研讨会为AGEP博士生提供社区建设和联合指导的机会；根据参与项目的程度和取得学位的及时进展发放学生留校津贴；学生参与研究和专业发展培训会议，研究种子基金的小额资助竞赛，学习社区，博士后奖学金安置和/或教师职位的过渡活动；并与nsf资助的研究协调网络（RCN-SEES）开展跨机构合作和伙伴关系：半干旱地区的气候、能源、环境和参与（CE3SAR）。TAMU AGEP联盟社会科学研究主要关注两个与URM STEM研究生在每个联盟机构的实验和应用环境中的融入感相关的问题：1)经历孤立或排斥对URM STEM研究生的生产力和进步以及他们继续担任教授的意图有什么影响？2)哪些因素（如制度、人际、个人）促进或调解了URM STEM学生的孤立或排斥感？