Collaborative Research: The AGEP Engineering Alliance: A Model to Advance Historically Underrepresented Minority Postdoctoral Scholars and Early Career Faculty in Engineering

合作研究：AGEP 工程联盟：促进历史上代表性不足的少数族裔博士后学者和工程领域早期职业教师的模式

• 批准号: 1821019
• 负责人: Natalie Arnett
• 金额: $ 40.49万
• 依托单位: Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1821019&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; AGEP; Engineering; Alliance

This Alliance brings together four universities with the goal of developing, implementing, studying, evaluating and disseminating a model focusing on career development for historically underrepresented minority (URM) engineering postdoctoral scholars, who successfully transition into early career faculty positions, and eventually become tenured and promoted in Engineering academic departments. The AGEP Engineering Alliance works with URM postdoctoral scholars to provide them with mentoring, professional development training and the skills necessary to succeed in academic faculty positions. The model also addresses the needs of the early career faculty, including teaching pedagogy training, grant-writing and student mentoring education. The model work is through partnerships between the Georgia Institute of Technology, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, William Marsh Rice University, and the University of Colorado Colorado Springs.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. While this Alliance is primarily funded by the AGEP program, additional support has been provided by the NSF INCLUDES program, which focuses on catalyzing the STEM enterprise to collaboratively work for inclusive change; the Directorate for Engineering's Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) and the Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) program; and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources' Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) and Centers for Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program.As the nation addresses 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, 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 AGEP Engineering Alliance has the potential to advance a model to improve the success of URM early career faculty in the field of Engineering, which ultimately leads to improved academic mentorship for URM undergraduate and graduate students in STEM.One of the research components of the Alliance investigates Engineering post-graduation plans for PhD graduates and their faculty pathways, and another study examines the policies and practices of higher education Engineering programs.The AGEP Engineering Alliance team will work with the BSCS Science Learning to conduct formative and summative evaluations. They will also engage an Executive Board of institutional 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 the research, and to the model development, implementation, testing, evaluation, dissemination, sustainability and reproduction potential. The boards will also provide input about how the Alliance work impacts institutional policies and practices to advance URM postdoctoral scholars and early career faculty in their academic Engineering careers.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.

该联盟汇集了四所大学，目的是开发，实施，研究，评估和传播一个重点是历史上代表性不足的少数族裔（URM）工程博士后学者的模型，他们成功地过渡到早期职业教师职位，并最终在工程学术部门任命和晋升。 AGEP工程联盟与URM博士后学者合作，为他们提供指导，专业发展培训以及在学术教师职位上取得成功所必需的技能。该模型还满足了早期职业教师的需求，包括教授教育学培训，赠款写作和学生指导教育。该模型的工作是通过佐治亚理工学院，佛罗里达农业和机械大学，威廉·马什·赖斯大学和科罗拉多州科罗拉多大学科罗拉多斯普林斯大学之间的合作伙伴关系。该联盟是为了响应NSF的研究生教育联盟和教授（agep）计划求解（NSF 16-552）而创建的。 AGEP计划旨在提高有关模型的知识，以改善URM研究生，博士后研究员和在特定的STEM学科和/或STEM教育研究领域的教授的途径和成功。 Agep转化联盟发展，复制或繁殖；通过综合的教育和社会科学研究来实施和研究，以改变博士教育，博士后培训和/或教师进步的宣传阶段，以及在整个途径和/或STEM教育研究职业中的URMS和/或途径层次的过渡。尽管该联盟主要由AGEP计划资助，但NSF包括计划提供了额外的支持，该计划的重点是催化STEM Enterprise以协作为包容性更改；工程工程研究中心（ERCS）和扩大工程计划（BPE）计划的局； and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources' Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) and Centers for Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program.As the nation addresses 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, work with and模仿。 NSF的最新报告表明，URM STEM的副业和全部教授在所有4年的大学中占了这些高级教师职位的8％，在该国最重要的研究机构中，这些职位中约有6％。 The AGEP Engineering Alliance has the potential to advance a model to improve the success of URM early career faculty in the field of Engineering, which ultimately leads to improved academic mentorship for URM undergraduate and graduate students in STEM.One of the research components of the Alliance investigates Engineering post-graduation plans for PhD graduates and their faculty pathways, and another study examines the policies and practices of higher education Engineering programs.The AGEP Engineering Alliance团队将与BSCS Science学习一起进行形成和总结性评估。他们还将与机构管理员和领导人以及外部顾问委员会的执行委员会合作。 董事会将向联盟团队提供反馈，并建议对项目管理，研究以及模型开发，实施，测试，评估，传播，可持续性和繁殖潜力进行调整。 董事会还将提供有关联盟工作如何影响机构政策和实践的意见，以推动URM博士后学者和早期职业教师的学术工程职业。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响，可以通过评估来获得支持，并被认为是值得的。