AGEP-Transformation: The CIC Professorial Advancement Initiative

AGEP-转型：CIC 教授晋升计划

• 批准号: 1309028
• 负责人: Charity Farber
• 金额: $ 107.18万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 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 2022-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1309028&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AGEP; Transformation; CIC; Professorial; Advancement

The CIC Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate's Professional Advancement Initiative (PAI) 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 CIC AGEP PAI is a collaboration between the University of Illinois-Champaign (UIUC) and Purdue University (PU) to partner with other university members of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC): Indiana University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. The Alliance is creating a "Professorial Advancement Initiativ" (PAI) with a goal to increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) faculty members hired within the CIC partnering institutions. The PAI Alliance participants are URM U.S. citizen in STEM fields. The two objectives for this project are:Objective 1: To create a pool of URM post-doctoral fellows, prepared and trained to enter the academy as tenure track facility.Objective 2: To educate faculty and faculty search committees about unconscious bias and diversity hiring.The objectives have the following measureable outcomes associated with them:1. The number of URM postdocs recruited into the PAI.2. The number of PAI applications submitted to the CIC partnering institutions.3. The number of URM postdocs interviewed with the CIC partnering institutions.4. The number of offers extended to URMs in the CIC partnering institutions.5. The number of offers accepted.6. The number of faculty mentors recruited to participate in the PAI.7. The number of faculty members participating in PAI hiring committee training program.The activities that contribute to the model for the CIC's AGEP PAI include implementing: - A program of small group mentoring for URM postdoctoral fellows across STEM disciplines in the CIC partnering institutions;- Interactive video-teleconferences for mentors and protégés (aka, the postdoctoral fellows); and- A program for training faculty and hiring committees. The proposal includes a social science research study focusing on determining how the mentoring environment, ranging from a micro-systems (e.g., peer-to-peer interactions, faculty-to-peer interactions) to macro-systems (e.g., broader social context), affects the self-efficacy and identity of postdoctoral fellows within their STEM disciplines. Specifically, the team is exploring answers to two primary questions that address the research goal of this project: 1. What is the influence of mentoring on URM postdoctoral fellows' self-efficacy and identities as STEM researchers?2. How does the degree of importance that STEM postdoctoral fellows place on having a matched mentor background influence their self-efficacy and identities?A third question explores the impacts of faculty bias on postdoctoral fellows: What is the influence of mentoring experience on faculty's subtle bias towards URM postdoctoral fellows' in STEM disciplines?

CIC研究生教育和教授职业发展倡议联盟(PAI)是为了响应NSF的研究生教育联盟和AGEP转型(AGEP-T)轨道的教授(AGEP)计划征集(NSF 12-554)而创建的。AGEP-T Track的目标是机构和组织的战略联盟，以开发、实施和研究STEM研究生教育、博士后培训和学术STEM职业准备的创新循证模式和标准，以消除或减轻负面因素并促进URM的积极做法。CIC AGEP PAI是伊利诺伊香槟分校(UIUC)和普渡大学(PU)之间的合作，与机构合作委员会(CIC)的其他大学成员合作：印第安纳大学、爱荷华大学、密歇根大学、密歇根州立大学、明尼苏达大学、内布拉斯加州-林肯大学、西北大学、俄亥俄州立大学、宾夕法尼亚州立大学、和威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校。该联盟正在创建一个“教授进步倡议”(PAI)，目的是增加在CIC合作机构中雇用的代表不足的少数族裔(URM)教员的数量。PAI联盟的参与者是STEM领域的URM美国公民。该项目的两个目标是：目标1：创建一批URM博士后研究员，为进入学院作为终身教职跟踪设施而准备和培训。目标2：教育教师和教师搜索委员会关于无意识的偏见和多样性招聘。目标有以下可衡量的结果：1.招募到PAI的URM博士后的数量。向中投合作机构提交的PAI申请数量。与CIC合作机构面谈的URM博士后人数。提供给中投合作机构中的URM的报价数量。被接受的报价数量。招募参加PAI.7的教师导师的数量。参与PAI招聘委员会培训计划的教师人数。有助于CIC AGEP PAI模式的活动包括：-为CIC合作机构中的STEM学科的URM博士后研究员提供小组辅导计划；-为导师和门生S(又名博士后研究员)举行互动视频电话会议；以及-为教师和招聘委员会提供培训计划。该提案包括一项社会科学研究，重点是确定辅导环境如何影响STEM学科博士后研究员的自我效能和认同感，辅导环境从微观系统(例如，点对点互动、教员对点互动)到宏观系统(例如，更广泛的社会背景)。具体地说，该团队正在探索两个主要问题的答案，以满足该项目的研究目标：1.导师对URM博士后研究员的自我效能感和STEM研究员身份的影响是什么？2.STEM博士后研究员对拥有匹配的导师背景的重要性程度如何影响他们的自我效能感和身份认同？第三个问题探索教师偏见对博士后研究员的影响：在STEM学科中，教师对URM博士后研究员的微妙偏见有什么影响？