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

该联盟将四所大学联合在一起，目标是开发、实施、研究、评估和传播一种专注于历史上代表性不足的少数民族(URM)工程学博士后学者职业发展的模式，这些学者成功地过渡到职业生涯早期的教师职位，并最终在工程学学术系获得终身教职和晋升。AGEP工程联盟与URM博士后学者合作，为他们提供指导、专业发展培训和在学术教师职位上取得成功所需的技能。该模式还满足了早期职业教师的需求，包括教学、教育学培训、助学金撰写和学生指导教育。示范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大学科罗拉多泉大学之间的合作伙伴关系进行的。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。虽然该联盟主要由AGEP计划提供资金，但NSF Includes计划也提供了额外的支持，该计划的重点是催化STEM企业共同努力实现包容性变革；工程局的工程研究中心(ERCS)和扩大工程参与(BPE)计划；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、留住和提拔URM STEM教师，他们是URM学生学习、合作和效仿的榜样和学术领袖。NSF最近的报告显示，URM STEM副教授和正教授在所有四年制学院和大学中占据了8%的高级教职职位，在美国研究最密集的机构中约占6%。AGEP工程联盟有潜力提出一种模式，以提高URM早期职业教师在工程领域的成功，最终改善对URM本科生和研究生在STEM领域的学术指导。联盟的一个研究部分调查博士毕业生和他们的教师途径的工程学研究生计划，另一个研究检查高等教育工程学课程的政策和实践。AGEP工程联盟团队将与BSC科学学习合作，进行形成性和总结性评估。他们还将聘请一个由机构行政人员和领导人组成的执行委员会，以及一个外部咨询委员会。董事会将向联盟小组提供反馈，并建议对项目的管理、研究以及模型的开发、执行、测试、评估、传播、可持续性和复制潜力进行调整。董事会还将提供关于联盟工作如何影响机构政策和实践的意见，以促进URM博士后学者和早期职业教师在他们的学术工程职业生涯中。这一奖项反映了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 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.