Collaborative Research: An AGEP Alliance Model to Advance Underrepresented Minority STEM Faculty at Predominately Undergraduate Institutions

该联盟汇集了三所大学，其目标是开发，实施，研究，制度化，评估和传播一种专注于STEM历史上代表性不足的少数民族（URM）博士学位学生职业发展的模式，这些学生成功地过渡到主要本科院校（PUI）的早期职业STEM教师职位，或谁进入博士后STEM学者职位，然后过渡到早期职业STEM教师职位在PUI。 AGEP PUI联盟与URM博士学位学生，博士后学者和早期职业教师合作，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需的教学法技能。AGEP联盟的模式工作是通过斯托尼布鲁克大学-纽约的州立大学（SUNY）、萨福克县社区学院- SUNY和法明代尔州立学院- SUNY之间的伙伴关系进行的。该联盟是应NSF的研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）计划征集（NSF 16-552）而创建的。AGEP计划旨在推进有关模型的知识，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教育研究领域的教授和成功途径。AGEP转型联盟开发，复制或复制;实施和研究，通过综合教育和社会科学研究，模型来改变博士教育，博士后培训和/或教师晋升的论文阶段，以及在STEM和/或STEM教育研究职业中的URM的途径水平内和跨途径水平的过渡。虽然该联盟主要由AGEP计划资助，但NSF INCLUDES计划提供了额外的支持，该计划专注于催化STEM企业协同努力实现包容性变革。随着国家解决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，保留和促进URM STEM教师谁作为榜样和学术领袖URM学生学习，工作和效仿。最近的NSF报告表明，URM STEM副教授和正教授在所有4年制学院和大学中占这些高级教师职位的8%，在美国最研究密集型的机构中占这些职位的6%。AGEP PUI联盟有潜力推进一种模式，以提高URM早期职业STEM教师在PUI的成功，这最终导致URM本科生在社区学院，两年制学术机构，和其他PUI。联盟的研究组成部分之一调查自我的作用，在论述学生的成功和参与时，心态信念与对他人心态的感知;评估导师心态与学员心态对关系质量和学员参与结果的具体作用;并通过博士生的论文开发和完成工作，探索他们的社会心理参与随着时间的推移而发生的变化。AGEP PUI联盟将与纽约研究生中心高级教育研究中心的评估小组合作，进行形成性和总结性评估。他们还将与机构行政人员和领导人组成的执行委员会以及外部咨询委员会合作。 委员会将向联盟小组提供反馈，并就项目管理、研究、模型开发、实施、测试、评价、传播、可持续性和复制潜力提出调整建议。 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投入，以推动URM早期职业教师在PUI的学术STEM职业生涯。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估来支持。

This Alliance brings together three universities with the goal of developing, implementing, studying, institutionalizing, evaluating and disseminating a model focusing on career development for historically underrepresented minority (URM) doctoral degree students in STEM, who successfully transition into early career STEM faculty positions at predominately undergraduate institutions (PUIs), or who enter postdoctoral STEM scholar positions and then transition into early career STEM faculty positions at PUIs. The AGEP PUI Alliance works with URM doctoral degree students, postdoctoral scholars and early career faculty to provide them with mentoring, professional development training, and the teaching pedagogy skills necessary to succeed in academic faculty positions. The AGEP Alliance model work is through partnerships between Stony Brook University - The State University of New York (SUNY), Suffolk County Community College - SUNY, and Farmingdale State College - SUNY.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.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 PUI Alliance has the potential to advance a model to improve the success of URM early career STEM faculty in PUIs, which ultimately leads to improved academic mentorship for URM undergraduate students in STEM at community colleges, two-year academic institutions, and other PUIs.One of the research components of the Alliance investigates the role of self-mindset beliefs versus perceptions of others' mindset on dissertating students' success and engagement; assesses the specific role of mentor mindset versus mentee mindset on relationship quality and mentee engagement outcomes; and explores change over time in psychosocial engagement among doctoral students through their work on dissertation development and completion.The AGEP PUI Alliance will work with an assessment team at the Center for Advanced Study of Education, at the City University of New York's Graduate Center, 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 early career faculty in their academic STEM careers at PUIs.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.