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

该 AGEP 联盟汇集了加利福尼亚州 (CA) 的四家西班牙裔服务机构 (HSI)，其具体目标是开发、实施和测试一个模型，以创建更加多元化的 STEM 教师队伍，该模型可在全国 HSI 机构中广泛复制。 AGEP CA HSI 联盟模式侧重于教学培训和教师职业指导，为历史上代表性不足的少数族裔 (URM) 博士生做好准备，这些博士生正处于完成论文的培训阶段，可以在学院和大学从事以教学为重点的教师职业。虽然模型工作是通过加州大学圣巴巴拉分校、加州大学默塞德分校、科罗拉多州立大学弗雷斯诺分校和科罗拉多州立大学海峡群岛之间的合作进行的，但该项目正在创建一个适用于其他具有多层系统的州以及加州大学和科罗拉多州立大学系统的模型。该联盟是为了响应 NSF 研究生教育和教授联盟 (AGEP) 计划征集 (NSF 16-552) 而创建的。 GEP 项目旨在增进有关模型的知识，以改善历史上代表性不足的少数族裔 (URM) 研究生、博士后研究员和特定 STEM 学科和/或 STEM 教育研究领域教师的成功之路。 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，实施和研究模型，以改变 STEM 和/或 STEM 教育研究职业中 URM 的博士教育、博士后培训和/或教师晋升的论文作者阶段，以及路径级别内部和之间的过渡。该联盟还得到了 NSF 科学技术卓越研究中心 (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流程，包括： (1) 暑期学院，供学生学习科罗拉多州立大学课程和课堂的教学实践； (2) 科罗拉多州立大学教职人员与加州大学博士生配对，指导他们制定特定学科的教学策略和目标； (3) 为期一个学期的教学奖学金，将研究、评估和服务学习机会纳入科罗拉多州立大学课堂； (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； (5) 当 URM 博士生完成论文并进入 STEM 学术教师队伍时，来自 AGEP 群体和项目的网络和社会支持。研究部分正在调查博士生的态度和假设。学生和教职员工在非研究密集型机构寻求教职的问题。它正在评估 URM 和非 URM STEM 博士生的职业目标，以及 STEM 教师关于学生职业的价值观和规范。它还正在研究加州大学校园博士生对教师规范信念的看法。该研究以社会规范理论为框架，比较了博士生对教师观点的看法与教师自己阐述的关于职业选择的观点和规范的匹配程度。 AGEP CA HSI 联盟团队将与 SmartStart 评估和研究的外部顾问合作，进行形成性和总结性评估。他们还将聘请由加州大学和科罗拉多州立大学管理人员和领导者组成的执行委员会以及外部顾问委员会。 董事会将向联盟团队提供反馈，并对项目管理提出调整建议；建模开发、实施、测试、传播和可持续性；复制和再生产的机制；进行评估；该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值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.