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，菲斯克大学和维克森林大学将合作开发，研究和完善一种模式，以招募，保留和促进历史上代表性不足的少数民族（URM）妇女从博士学位获得博士后奖学金到STEM终身职位。 该联盟是为了响应NSF的研究生教育联盟和教授（AGEP）计划征集（NSF 16-552）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的途径。 AGEP转型联盟发展、复制或再生产;实施和研究，通过综合教育和社会科学研究，模式，以改变博士教育的论文阶段，博士后培训和/或教师的进步，以及内部和跨途径水平的过渡，URM在STEM和/或STEM教育研究事业中的作用。由于我们的国家面临着URM和非URM之间的STEM成就差距，URM的本科生和研究生，我们的大学和学院努力招聘，留住和促进URM STEM教师谁作为榜样和学术领袖URM学生学习，工作和效仿。 最近的NSF报告表明，URM STEM副教授和正教授在所有4年制学院和大学中占这些高级教师职位的8%，在美国最研究密集型的机构中占这些职位的6%。 URM女性在这些学术STEM职位中所占份额较小，增加她们的代表性至关重要，因为URM女性本科生在STEM专业就读的人数超过了男性同龄人。目前的AGEP项目有可能推进一种模式，以提高URM妇女在STEM教师职位的代表性，最终为中学后学术机构的STEM本科生和研究生提供URM STEM榜样。该项目包括将博士后研究员过渡到教师职位的活动，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，以更好地了解促进妇女和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，社会关系的影响，学术专业文化和制度背景。 范德比尔特大学和菲斯克大学将使关键的模型干预措施制度化，将模型组成部分在维克森林大学实施，并将模型传播到通过研究促进公平合作组织中的40个机构网络。美国国家科学院的福特基金会多样性研究员计划将与该联盟合作，以确定和招募有前途的博士后合作伙伴参与项目。 位于维克森林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一个外部评估小组通过范德比尔特授予扩大参与研究所的子奖项进行。 外部咨询委员会将通过年度协商向项目小组提供咨询意见。

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.