AGEP-KAT: Adopting Evidence Based Strategies to Improve Academic Climate and the Success of Underrepresented Doctoral Students in Engineering

AGEP-KAT：采用基于证据的策略来改善学术氛围和工程领域代表性不足的博士生的成功

• 批准号: 1434012
• 负责人: Sylvanus Wosu
• 金额: $ 158.48万
• 依托单位: University of Pittsburgh
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1434012&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AGEP; KAT; Adopting; Evidence; Based

This project is supported by the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program and is a Knowledge Adoption and Translation (AGEP-KAT) award. The AGEP program funds KAT projects to expand the adoption and/or adaptation of research findings and evidence-based strategies and practices related to the participation and success of underrepresented minorities (URMs) in STEM graduate education, postdoctoral training, and academic STEM careers at all types of institutions of higher education. This award funds activities at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering to adopt and adapt strategies and practices employed by the University of Maryland Baltimore County's (UMBC) Meyerhoff Scholars Program and the NSF-funded PROMISE AGEP Maryland project. This KAT project is designed to improve the transitions of URM students, who are US citizens, into doctoral engineering programs at the University of Pittsburgh and to ensure their successful completion by employing evidence-based strategies for student and faculty engagement and fostering an inclusive academic climate for URM doctoral students. The success of the adoption and adaption process will directly benefit a cohort of US citizens who are URM doctoral students majoring in engineering fields. Results from this KAT will also inform engineering graduate programs across the nation about how to adapt effective strategies for faculty engagement, for improving academic climate change, and for ensuring URM doctoral student success.The project team will explore the following faculty-specific objectives as they work to address the project goal: Improving faculty engagement with students, advancing their awareness of the barriers and problems the student experience, and developing a shared vision regarding the success of URM graduate students within the school of engineering. Student-focused objectives include: Adapting and implementing the evidence-based strategies being adopted, enhancing professional and educational skills, and increasing the number of students who are retained and graduated in engineering doctoral programs. The team will consult with administrative leaders from UMBC and The Pennsylvania State University who, as part of the project's evaluation process, will provide feedback regarding the adoption, adaption, implementation and assessment of the faculty and student strategies. Products are expected to include publications in peer-reviewed journals.

该项目由研究生教育联盟和教授（AGEP）计划支持，是知识采纳和翻译（AGEP-KAT）奖。 AGEP计划资助KAT项目，以扩大采用和/或调整与代表性不足的少数民族（URM）在STEM研究生教育，博士后培训和学术STEM职业中的参与和成功相关的研究成果和循证战略和实践。 该奖项为匹兹堡大学斯旺森工程学院的活动提供资金，以采用和调整马里兰州巴尔的摩县大学（UMBC）迈耶霍夫学者计划和NSF资助的PROMISE AGEP马里兰州项目所采用的策略和实践。 该KAT项目旨在改善URM学生（美国公民）向匹兹堡大学博士工程课程的过渡，并通过采用学生和教师参与的循证策略并为URM博士生培养包容性的学术氛围来确保其成功完成。 采用和适应过程的成功将直接使一批美国公民受益，他们是URM工程领域的博士生。 此次KAT的结果还将为全国工程研究生项目提供有关如何调整有效策略以促进教师参与、改善学术气候变化以及确保URM博士生成功的信息。项目团队将在努力实现项目目标时探索以下特定于教师的目标：提高教师与学生的互动，提高他们对学生经历的障碍和问题的认识，并就工程学院URM研究生的成功制定共同愿景。 以学生为中心的目标包括：调整和实施正在采用的循证战略，提高专业和教育技能，增加在工程博士课程中保留和毕业的学生人数。 该团队将与来自UMBC和宾夕法尼亚州立大学的行政领导进行磋商，作为项目评估过程的一部分，他们将提供有关教师和学生策略的采用，适应，实施和评估的反馈。 预计产品将包括同行评审期刊上的出版物。