Collaborative Research: AGEP Transformation Alliance: Bridging the PhD to Postdoc to Faculty Transitions for Women of Color in STEM

范德比尔特大学（Vanderbilt University）、菲斯克大学（Fisk University）和维克森林大学（Wake Forest University）将合作开发、研究和完善一种模式，以招募、留住和推进历史上代表性不足的少数族裔（URM）女性，从获得博士学位到博士后，再到STEM领域的终身职位。该联盟是为了响应美国国家科学基金会的研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）计划征集（NSF 16-552）而创建的。AGEP计划旨在推进有关模型的知识，以改善URM研究生，博士后研究员和教师在特定STEM学科和/或STEM教育研究领域的教授和成功途径。AGEP转型联盟的发展、复制或再生产；通过综合教育和社会科学研究，实施和研究模式，以改变博士教育的论文阶段，博士后培训和/或教师晋升，以及在STEM和/或STEM教育研究职业中urm内部和跨途径水平的过渡。由于我们的国家面临着URM和非URM本科生和研究生之间的STEM成就差距，我们的大学和学院努力招聘，留住和提升URM的STEM教师，他们作为URM学生学习，合作和模仿的榜样和学术领袖。美国国家科学基金会最近的报告显示，在所有四年制学院和大学中，URM STEM副教授和正教授占这些高级教师职位的8%，在全国最具研究密集型的机构中，这些职位约占6%。URM的女性在这些学术STEM职位中所占的比例较小，而且她们的代表性的增加是至关重要的，因为URM的女性本科生，在STEM专业注册，超过了男性同龄人。目前的AGEP项目有可能推进一种模式，以提高URM女性在STEM教师职位上的代表性，最终为高等教育机构的STEM本科生和研究生提供URM STEM榜样。该项目包括将博士后转换为教师职位的活动，或博士后到教师的桥梁计划，为初级教师提供指导，并协助初级教师发展强大的学术身份。综合研究将包括横断面调查、三年纵向调查和小组访谈，以更好地了解促进女性和urm在STEM职业生涯中做出选择的过程。研究的变量包括性别和种族差异、社会关系影响、学术-职业文化和制度背景。范德比尔特大学和菲斯克大学将把关键的模型干预措施制度化，为维克森林大学的实施提供模型组件，并将该模型传播给参与“通过研究促进公平合作”的40个机构的网络。美国国家科学院的福特基金会多样性研究员项目将与该联盟合作，确定并招募有前途的博士后参与项目。维克森林大学的安娜朱莉娅库珀中心将为该联盟开展规模扩大和传播活动。形成性和总结性评估工作将由外部评估小组执行，通过范德比尔特大学向扩大参与研究所提供的次级奖励。外部顾问委员会将通过年度咨询向项目团队提供建议。

Vanderbilt University, Fisk University, and Wake Forest University will collaborate to develop, study and refine a model to recruit, retain and advance historically underrepresented minority (URM) women from doctoral degree attainment to postdoctoral fellowship to tenured track positions in STEM. This alliance was created in response to the NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program solicitation (NSF 16-552) The AGEP program seeks to advance knowledge about models to improve pathways to the professoriate and success of URM graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty in specific STEM disciplines and/or STEM education research fields. AGEP Transformation Alliances develop, replicate or reproduce; implement and study, via integrated educational and social science research, models to transform the dissertator phase of doctoral education, postdoctoral training and/or faculty advancement, and the transitions within and across the pathway levels, of URMs in STEM and/or STEM education research careers.As our nation is confronted with a STEM achievement gap between URM and non-URM undergraduate and graduate students, our universities and colleges struggle to recruit, retain and promote URM STEM faculty who serve as role models and academic leaders for URM students to learn from, to work with and to emulate. Recent NSF reports indicate that URM STEM associate and full professors occupy 8% of these senior faculty positions at all 4-year colleges and universities and about 6% of these positions at the nation's most research-intensive institutions. URM women hold smaller shares of these academic STEM positions and an increase in their representation is essential since female URM undergraduate students, enrolled in STEM majors, outnumber their male peers. The current AGEP project has potential to advance a model to improve the representation of URM women in STEM faculty positions, eventually providing URM STEM role models to a STEM undergraduate and graduate students at postsecondary academic institutions.The project includes activities to transition postdoctoral fellows into faculty positions, or a postdoc-to-faculty bridge program, to provide junior faculty with mentoring and to assist junior faculty in developing strong scholarly identities. The integrated research will include cross-sectional surveys, three-year longitudinal surveys and small-group interviews to gain a better understanding of the processes facilitating the choices women and URMs make in their STEM careers. Variables to study include gender and race differences, social relationship influences, the academic-professional culture and the institutional context. Vanderbilt and Fisk Universities will institutionalize the key model interventions, stage the model components for implementation at Wake Forest University, and disseminate the model to the network of 40 institutions represented in the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research. The National Academy of Science's Ford Foundation Diversity Fellows program will work with the alliance to identify and recruit promising postdoctoral associates for project participation. The Anna Julia Cooper Center at Wake Forest will conduct scale up and dissemination activities for the alliance. Formative and summative evaluation work will be performed by an external evaluation team, via a subaward from Vanderbilt to the Institute for Broadening Participation. An external advisory board will provide advice to the project team through annual consultation.