Collaborative Research: The Hispanic AGEP Alliance for the Environmental Science and Engineering Professoriate in Community Colleges and Associate Degree Programs

纽约城市学院和德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校将合作开发、实施和研究一种模式，用于培训和过渡西班牙裔环境科学与工程（ESE）博士生，这些博士生已完成所有课程并正在写论文，因为他们将过渡到社区学院或其他副学士授予机构的STEM教学教师或工作人员职位。西班牙裔AGEP联盟（H-AGEP）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）项目征集（NSF 16-552）而创建的。AGEP项目旨在推进有关模型的知识，以改善历史上代表性不足的少数民族（URM）研究生、博士后和教师在特定STEM学科和/或STEM教育研究领域的教授和成功途径。AGEP转型联盟通过综合教育和社会科学研究，开发、复制、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/或教员晋升，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。由于国家面临着URM和非URM本科生和研究生之间的STEM成就差距，大学和学院努力招聘，留住和提升URM 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%。H-AGEP联盟有潜力推进一种模式，以改善西班牙裔STEM博士生进入社区学院教师职位的教学准备和过渡，并为STEM本科生提供西班牙裔STEM教师、导师和榜样。H-AGEP联盟计划开发、实施和研究一种模式，用于培训和过渡西班牙裔环境科学与工程（ESE）博士生，这些博士生已经完成了所有课程，正在写论文，并将升任社区学院或其他副学士授予机构的STEM教学教师或工作人员职位。参与者主要包括拉美裔美籍博士研究生，他们是ESE领域的高级博士候选人，包括但不限于：土木工程；电气工程;机械工程;生物医学工程;地球与大气科学；生态学、进化生物学和行为学；计算机科学;电气与计算机工程;以及环境科学与工程。H-AGEP联盟的社区学院合作伙伴是纽约州长岛市的拉瓜迪亚社区学院；纽约州贝赛德的昆斯伯勒社区学院；该项目包括开发和测试该模式中的三个主要干预部分：在社区大学有效教授ESE课程的培训和指导计划；培训指导本科生研究人员；以及一个专业发展计划，以解决ESE和学术界的职业发展问题。这项综合研究将考察影响西班牙裔博士生在完成博士学位并进入他们的职业时取得成功的因素。形成性和总结性评价由博士主持。哥伦比亚大学技术与学校变革中心教师学院的Ellen Meier和Dawn Horton说。一个外部咨询委员会将向团队提供关于项目活动的有效性和结果的反馈，以开发、实施和测试H-AGEP联盟模式。

The City College of New York and the University of Texas at El Paso will collaborate to develop, implement and study a model for training and transitioning Hispanic Environmental Sciences and Engineering (ESE) doctoral students, who have completed all coursework and who are dissertating, as they transition to STEM instructional faculty or staff positions at community colleges or other associate degree granting institutions. The Hispanic AGEP Alliance (H-AGEP) 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 historically underrepresented minority (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 the nation is confronted with a STEM achievement gap between URM and non-URM undergraduate and graduate students, 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, work with and 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. The H-AGEP Alliance has potential to advance a model to improve the teaching preparation and transitions for Hispanic STEM doctoral students entering community college faculty positions, and providing Hispanic STEM faculty, mentors and role models for STEM undergraduate students.The H-AGEP Alliance plans to develop, implement and study a model for training and transitioning Hispanic Environmental Sciences and Engineering (ESE) doctoral students, who have completed all coursework and who are dissertating, as they progress to STEM instructional faculty or staff positions at community colleges or other associate degree granting institutions. Participants primarily include Hispanic-American doctoral students who are advanced level doctoral candidates majoring in ESE fields, including but not limited to: civil engineering; electrical engineering; mechanical engineering; biomedical engineering; earth and atmospheric sciences; ecology, evolutionary biology, and behavior; computer sciences; electrical and computer engineering; and environmental science and engineering. The community college partners in the H-AGEP Alliance are LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY; Queensborough Community College in Bayside, NY; and El Paso Community College in El Paso, TX. The project includes developing and testing three primary intervention components in the model: a training and mentoring program for effectively teaching ESE courses at community colleges; training to mentor undergraduate student researchers; and a professional development program to address career advancement in ESE and academia. The integrated research will examine the factors that influence the success of Hispanic doctoral students as they complete doctoral degrees and enter their professions. The formative and summative evaluation is being conducted by Drs. Ellen Meier and Dawn Horton, at the Teachers College, Columbia University's Center for Technology and School Change. An external advisory committee will provide feedback to the team on the effectiveness and outcomes of the project activities to develop, implement and test the H-AGEP Alliance model.