The Stony Brook-Brookhaven AGEP Frontiers of Research and Academic Models of Excellence (FRAME) Alliance for Transformation

石溪-布鲁克海文 AGEP 研究前沿和卓越学术模型 (FRAME) 转型联盟

• 批准号: 1311318
• 负责人: David Ferguson
• 金额: $ 127.88万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 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=1311318&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Stony; Brook; Brookhaven; AGEP; Frontiers

The Stony Brook-Brookhaven AGEP Frontiers of Research and Academic Models of Excellence (FRAME) Alliance for Transformation 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.This is an alliance between SUNY at Stony Brook (SBU) and Brookhaven National Laboratory's Office of Educational Programs (BNL) that is partnering with eight organizations who are members of the Brookhaven Science Associates (BSA), the company that was formed to operate BNL for the U.S. Department of Energy: Battelle, SBU, Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University and Yale University. The Stony Brook-Brookhaven AGEP FRAME Alliance is engaging Historically Black Colleges and Universities, as well as other minority service institutions, through collaborations with the Interdisciplinary Consortium for Research and Educational Access in Science and Engineering (INCREASE).The FRAME Alliance is working on a goal to help U.S. citizens who are underrepresented minority (URM) graduate students and postdoctoral trainees develop the essential skills to succeed in the competitive professional environment of the professoriate. An Alliance participant is defined as a URM U.S. citizen who is a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow in STEM. The objectives for this project are:Objective 1: Double the number of URM U.S. citizens who are postdoctoral trainees at SBU and BNL, from the current baseline of 18, to 36.Objective 2: Establish a postdoctoral fellow training regimen for U.S. URM citizens with formal pedagogical and professional competencies. Objective 3: Provide targeted support and intensive training for U.S. citizens who are URM STEM doctoral students at SBU/BNL to become productive and independent researchers who receive offers, and accept postdoctoral positions, at BSA member institutions (Columbia University, Cornell University, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University and Yale University) or other top tier research institutions.Objective 4: Develop and sustain a mutually beneficial relationship between INCREASE institutions and SBU in order to strengthen the research training, mentoring and networking opportunities across a broad community of URM students, who are U.S. citizens, whereby there is an increase from 30% to 60% in the number of INCREASE institutions that provide pathways for their undergraduates to pursue graduate study at SBU.The activities that contribute to the model for the SBU/BNL AGEP FRAME Alliance are very specific and they include: 1. Building a mutually beneficial partnership between SBU, BNL, BSA, and INCREASE whereby an increase in joint publications, diversity centered collaborations and appointments of the postdoctoral fellows in positions within the consortium will be measures of success. 2. Providing high level training to U.S. citizens who are URM graduate students and postdoctoral trainees about professional and research skills whereby an increase in their research productivity, engagement in mentoring activities, improved science writing, and science communication skills will be measures of success. 3. Transitioning U.S. citizens who are URM graduate students and postdoctoral trainees into professoriate positions at research intensive universities with change measured by an increase in the number of students applying to, receiving offers from, and entering postdoctoral and faculty positions at BSA institutions or other top tier institutions, and postdoctoral fellows applying to, receiving offers, and entering faculty positions at BSA institutions or other top tier institutions.The proposal includes a social science research study that explores whether the level and stability of STEM identity among graduate and postdoctoral fellows is enhanced by increasing levels of self-efficacy over time, and predicts STEM success and persistence outcomes among URMs who are U.S. citizens. The research is testing the psychosocial processes underlying this goal. The research team is assessing two key psychosocial factors, and their corresponding processes, theorized to impact STEM success and persistence among URM graduate students and postdoctoral trainees: the level and stability of STEM specific self-efficacy and STEM identity among URM graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, compared to non-URM graduate students and postdoctoral trainees. A primary vehicle for expected changes in STEM self-efficacy and STEM identity among URM students and postdoctoral fellows should be exposure to the SBU/BNL AGEP FRAME Alliance programming interventions.

石溪-布鲁克海文AGEP研究前沿和卓越学术模型(FRAME)转型联盟是为了响应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、实施和研究创新的循证模式和标准，用于STEM研究生教育、博士后培训和学术STEM职业准备，以消除或减轻负面因素并促进URM的积极实践。这是位于石溪的纽约州立大学(SBU)和布鲁克海文国家实验室教育项目办公室(BNL)之间的联盟，BNL与布鲁克海文科学协会(BSA)的成员组织合作，布鲁克海文科学协会(BSA)是为美国能源部运营BNL而成立的公司：巴特尔、SBU、哥伦比亚大学、康奈尔大学、哈佛大学、麻省理工学院、普林斯顿大学和耶鲁大学。石溪-布鲁克海文AGEP框架联盟通过与科学与工程研究和教育机会跨学科联盟(RAING)合作，与历史上的黑人学院和大学以及其他少数族裔服务机构合作。框架联盟正在努力实现一个目标，帮助代表不足的少数族裔(URM)研究生和博士后学员培养在教授竞争的职业环境中取得成功的基本技能。联盟参与者被定义为在STEM攻读研究生或博士后的URM美国公民。该项目的目标是：目标1：将在SBU和BNL接受博士后培训的美国公民人数增加一倍，从目前的18人增加到36人。目标2：为具有正式教学和专业能力的美国URM公民建立博士后伙伴培训制度。目标3：为在SBU/BNL攻读URM STEM博士生的美国公民提供有针对性的支持和强化培训，使他们成为在BSA成员机构(哥伦比亚大学、康奈尔大学、哈佛大学、麻省理工学院、普林斯顿大学和耶鲁大学)或其他顶级研究机构获得录用并接受博士后职位的富有成效的独立研究人员。目标4：发展和维持提高机构和SBU之间的互惠关系，以加强广泛的URM学生社区的研究培训、指导和网络机会，这些学生是美国公民，为本科生在SBU攻读研究生提供途径的机构数量从30%增加到60%。为SBU/BNL AGEP框架联盟模式做出贡献的活动非常具体，其中包括：1.在SBU、BNL和BSA之间建立互利的伙伴关系，并增加联合出版物、以多样性为中心的合作和任命博士后研究员在联盟内的职位，这将是成功的衡量标准。2.向UM研究生和博士后培训生的美国公民提供关于专业和研究技能的高水平培训，从而提高他们的研究生产率、参与指导活动、改进科学写作和科学交流技能将是成功的衡量标准。3.将作为博士后研究生和博士后实习生的美国公民过渡到研究密集型大学的教授职位，变化的衡量标准是申请、接受和进入博士后和博士后职位的学生数量增加，博士后研究员申请、接受博士后和博士后研究员职位的数量增加。该提案包括一项社会科学研究，旨在探索随着时间的推移，自我效能感水平的提高是否会提高研究生和博士后研究员的STEM认同感水平和稳定性，并预测作为美国公民的博士后博士后的STEM成功和持之以恒的结果。这项研究正在测试这一目标背后的心理社会过程。研究小组正在评估两个关键的心理社会因素及其相应的过程，理论上影响URM研究生和博士后学员的STEM成功和持久性：与非URM研究生和博士后学员相比，URM研究生和博士后学员的STEM特定自我效能感和STEM认同感的水平和稳定性。在URM学生和博士后中，STEM自我效能感和STEM认同感预期变化的主要载体应该是接触到SBU/BNL AGEP框架联盟规划干预措施。