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

合作研究：AGEP 转型联盟：为 STEM 领域的有色人种女性从博士到博士后再到教师过渡搭建桥梁

• 批准号: 1647229
• 负责人: Lanita Parker-Moore
• 金额: $ 12.22万
• 依托单位: Wake Forest University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-10-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1647229&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; AGEP; Transformation; Alliance

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.

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、保留和提升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研究员职位，再到STEM的终身跟踪职位。该联盟是为响应美国国家科学基金会研究生教育联盟和教授(AGEP)计划征集(NSF 16-552)而创建的。AGEP计划寻求提高有关模型的知识，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教育研究领域获得教授和成功的途径。AGEP转型联盟开发、复制或复制；通过综合教育和社会科学研究，实施和研究转变博士教育的博士论文阶段、博士后培训和/或教师晋升，以及STEM和/或STEM教育研究生涯中URM内部和跨路径层面的过渡的模式。由于我国面临URM与非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 STEM教师，他们是URM学生学习、合作和效仿的榜样和学术领袖。NSF最近的报告显示，URM STEM副教授和正教授在所有四年制学院和大学中占据了8%的高级教职职位，在美国研究最密集的机构中约占6%。在这些学术STEM职位中，URM女性所占比例较小，由于攻读STEM专业的URM本科生女性人数多于男性同龄人，因此增加她们的代表性是至关重要的。目前的AGEP项目有可能推进一种模式，以改善URM女性在STEM教师职位上的代表性，最终为STEM本科生和专上学术机构的研究生提供URM STEM榜样。该项目包括将博士后研究员转变为教师职位的活动，或博士后到教师的桥梁计划，为初级教师提供指导，并帮助初级教师发展强烈的学术认同。综合研究将包括横断面调查、为期三年的纵向调查和小组访谈，以更好地了解促进妇女和城市管理人员在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-职业文化和机构背景。范德比尔特大学和菲斯克大学将把关键的模式干预措施制度化，在维克森林大学实施模式组成部分，并将模式传播给参加通过研究促进公平的合作组织的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计划将与该联盟合作，为项目的参与寻找和招募有前途的博士后伙伴。位于维克森林的安娜·朱莉娅·库珀中心将为该联盟开展扩大和传播活动。形成性和总结性评价工作将由外部评价小组进行，由范德比尔特授予研究所扩大参与的分奖。外部咨询委员会将通过年度协商向项目团队提供咨询意见。