Collaborative Research: The AGEP California Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Alliance to Increase Underrepresented Minority Faculty in STEM

这个AGEP联盟将加州(CA)的四家拉美裔服务机构(HSI)聚集在一起，其具体目标是开发、实施和测试一种创建更多样化STEM教师的模式，该模式可在全国范围内广泛复制到HSI机构。AGEP CA HSI联盟模式专注于教学培训和教师职业生涯指导，为历史上代表性不足的少数民族(URM)博士生做好准备，他们正处于完成论文的培训阶段，以便在学院和大学从事以教学为重点的教师职业。虽然模式工作是通过加州大学圣巴巴拉分校、加州大学默塞德分校、加州大学弗雷斯诺分校和CSU-Channel岛之间的合作伙伴关系进行的，但该项目正在创建一个将适用于其他拥有多层系统的州以及加州大学和CSU系统的模式。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)而创建的。AGEP计划致力于增进有关模式的知识，以改善在特定STEM学科和/或STEM教育研究领域中历史上代表性不足的少数族裔(URM)研究生、博士后研究员和教员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，实施和研究模式，以改变STEM和/或STEM教育研究职业中的博士教育、博士后培训和/或教师晋升的博士论文阶段、博士后培训和/或教师晋升，以及路径层次内和跨路径层次的过渡。该联盟还得到了美国国家科学与技术研究卓越中心(CREST)的资助。该联盟模式的目标是开发、实施和测试教师职业指导和教学培训的过程，包括：(1)为学生学习CSU课程和课堂的教学实践的暑期学院；(2)CSU教员与加州大学博士生的结对，就特定学科的教学战略和目标指导他们；(3)为期一学期的教学奖学金，将研究、评估和服务性学习机会纳入CSU课堂；(4)必要时协助过渡到博士后奖学金，作为教师职位准备的一部分；以及(5)在URM博士生完成论文并进入STEM学术教师队伍期间，AGEP队列和计划提供的网络和社会支持。研究部分正在调查博士生和教师对在非研究密集型机构寻求教师职位的态度和假设。它正在评估URM和非URM STEM博士生的职业目标，以及STEM教师关于他们学生职业生涯的价值观和规范。它还在调查加州大学校园博士生对教师规范信念的看法。在社会规范理论的框架下，这项研究正在比较博士生对教职员工观点的看法与教职员工自己陈述的观点和职业选择规范的匹配程度。AGEP CA HSI联盟团队将与SmartStart评估和研究的外部顾问合作，进行形成性和终结性评估。他们还将聘请由加州大学和CSU管理人员和领导人组成的执行委员会，以及外部咨询委员会。董事会将向联盟团队提供反馈，并建议对项目的管理、模型开发、实施、测试、传播和可持续性、复制和复制机制、评估和研究进行调整。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This AGEP Alliance brings together four Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in California (CA) with the specific goal of developing, implementing and testing a model for creating a more diverse STEM faculty, which is broadly replicable across the nation in HSI institutions. The AGEP CA HSI Alliance model focuses on pedagogical training and faculty career mentoring to prepare historically underrepresented minority (URM) doctoral students, who are at the stage in their training where they are completing their dissertations, for teaching-focused faculty careers at colleges and universities. While the model work is through partnerships between UC-Santa Barbara, UC-Merced, CSU-Fresno and CSU-Channel Islands, the project is creating a model that will be applicable in other states with multi-tier systems, as well as the UC and CSU systems.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 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. This Alliance is also funded by the NSF's Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST).The Alliance model is targeting processes for developing, implementing and testing faculty career mentoring and instructional trainings, including: (1) a summer institute for students to learn pedagogical practices for CSU curricula and classrooms; (2) a pairing of CSU faculty members with UC doctoral students to mentor them on discipline-specific teaching strategies and goals; (3) a semester-long teaching fellowship to incorporate research, assessment, and service-learning opportunities into CSU classrooms; (4) assistance with transitions to postdoctoral fellowships, when necessary, as part of the preparation for a teaching faculty position; and (5) networking and social support from the AGEP cohort and program while the URM doctoral students complete their dissertations and enter the STEM academic faculty workforce.The research component is investigating the attitudes and assumptions of Ph.D. students and faculty members regarding pursuing faculty positions at non-research-intensive institutions. It is assessing career goals of URM and non-URM STEM doctoral students, as well as STEM faculty values and norms regarding their students' careers. It is also examining the perceptions of faculty normative beliefs held by doctoral students at UC campuses. Framed in terms of social norms theory, the research is comparing the degree to which doctoral students' perceptions of faculty members' views match the faculty's own stated views and norms regarding career choices. The AGEP CA HSI Alliance team will work with external consultants at SmartStart Evaluation and Research, to conduct formative and summative evaluations. They will also engage an Executive Board of UC and CSU administrators and leaders, as well as an external Advisory Board. The boards will provide feedback to the Alliance team and suggest adjustments to the project's management; to model development, implementation, testing, dissemination, and sustainability; to the mechanisms for replication and reproduction; to the evaluation; and to the research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.