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，目标是开发、实施、研究、制度化、评估和传播一种模式，重点关注历史上代表性不足的少数民族（URM） STEM博士学位学生的职业发展，这些学生成功过渡到以本科为主的机构（PUIs）的早期职业STEM教师职位。或者进入博士后STEM学者职位，然后过渡到PUIs的早期职业STEM教师职位。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技巧。AGEP联盟模式的工作是通过纽约州立大学石溪大学（SUNY）、萨福克县社区学院（SUNY）和法明代尔州立学院（SUNY）之间的合作进行的。该联盟是根据美国国家科学基金会研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）项目招标（NSF 16-552）而创建的。AGEP计划旨在提高对模型的了解，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转型联盟的发展、复制或再生产；通过综合教育和社会科学研究，实施和研究模式，以改变博士教育的论文阶段，博士后培训和/或教师晋升，以及在STEM和/或STEM教育研究职业中urm内部和跨途径水平的过渡。虽然该联盟主要由AGEP项目资助，但NSF INCLUDES项目也提供了额外的支持，该项目专注于催化STEM企业协同工作，实现包容性变革。随着国家解决URM和非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，留住和提升URM STEM教师，他们作为URM学生学习，合作和模仿的榜样和学术领袖。美国国家科学基金会最近的报告显示，在所有四年制学院和大学中，URM STEM副教授和正教授占这些高级教师职位的8%，在全国最具研究密集型的机构中，这些职位约占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中的成功程度，最终导致URM本科生在社区学院、两年制学术机构和其他PUI中的学术指导得到改善。该联盟的一个研究组成部分是调查自我心态信念与他人心态感知在影响学生成功和参与方面的作用；评估导师心态与徒弟心态对关系质量和徒弟投入结果的具体作用；并通过博士生在论文开发和完成方面的工作，探讨了他们在心理社会参与方面的变化。AGEP PUI联盟将与纽约城市大学研究生中心高等教育研究中心的一个评估小组合作，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局，以及一个外部咨询委员会。委员会将向联盟团队提供反馈，并对项目管理、研究、模型开发、实施、测试、评估、传播、可持续性和再生产潜力提出调整建议。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早期职业教师在PUIs的学术STEM职业生涯。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识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 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.