NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Inclusive Graduate Education Network

包容性研究生教育网络（IGEN）联盟是一个NSF INCLUDES联盟，涉及30多个协会、机构、组织、公司和国家实验室的合作伙伴关系，准备在未被充分代表的种族和少数民族（UREM）学生获得物理科学博士学位的参与方面引领范式转变。UREM学生对物理科学的参与从未与其在人口中的比例相匹配，UREM学生获得博士学位的比例远远低于同一群体获得学士学位的比例。这种差异之所以特别突出，是因为这些学生构成了一个重要的、不断增长的、基本上尚未开发的国内科学人才来源。为了消除这一差距，IGEN联盟提出了一项创新战略，将包容性、循证实践制度化，以选拔和培训多样化、创新和具有全球竞争力的科学劳动力。IGEN联盟的主要合作伙伴是美国物理学会、美国化学学会、美国地球物理学会、美国天文学会和材料研究学会。这些协会具有独特的地位，可以领导物理科学领域的努力，使教师能够改革和改进他们的研究生教育实践。我们的合作伙伴共同代表了一系列组织和个人，这些组织和个人来自学科协会，代表了UREM学生、主要国家实验室、著名行业和领先的社会科学研究人员，他们可以解决阻碍代表性不足的学生成功获得博士学位的系统性问题——这些学位使他们能够推进科学并为美国提供技术创新。为了实现我们的参与和完成目标，我们的联盟1)通过每个学科的专业协会倡导的新的申请和整体审查流程来催化UREM研究生入学，2)通过宣传创造更具包容性的研究生教育环境的项目来维持这种增长，3)通过从本科经历，研究生院，最终进入劳动力市场的关键过渡改善学生指导。集体定义的度量标准被用来确保项目组成部分支持朝着联盟目标前进。IGEN骨干组织正在建设基础设施、流程、通信和网络，以支持在研究生STEM教育中广泛采用有效的包容性实践。联盟的研究和包容性实践中心支持领导力发展，包括研究生教育研究和包容性研究生教育实践和专业发展。IGEN联盟的每个组成部分在设计时都考虑到两个原则：全国范围的影响和长期的可持续性。虽然IGEN开始在物理科学领域开展工作，但正在通过与工程、计算机科学、生物科学和数学等其他学科的对话积极寻求扩展。专业协会有独特的机会作为共同持有的价值观的倡导者，作为有效实践的集中来源，以及作为能够维持长期计划的组织来领导。每个协会的领导层都致力于应对这一挑战，并在战略上与NSF INCLUDES联盟的愿景保持一致，即为未被充分代表的群体实现博士学位的平等。NSF INCLUDES联盟由数学和物理科学理事会物理部共同资助。这个NSF INCLUDES联盟也由NSF的研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）计划资助，该计划旨在增加STEM学科中历史上代表性不足的少数民族教师的数量。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。

The Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN) Alliance is an NSF INCLUDES Alliance involving a partnership of over 30 societies, institutions, organizations, corporations, and national laboratories poised to lead a paradigm shift in the participation of underrepresented racial and ethnic minority (UREM) students attaining a PhD in the physical sciences. Participation by UREM students in the physical sciences has never matched their representation in the population and the fraction of doctoral degrees earned by UREM students is dramatically less than the fraction of bachelor degrees earned by the same groups. This disparity is specifically salient because these students constitute a significant, growing, and essentially untapped source of domestic scientific talent. To erase this gap, the IGEN Alliance proposes an innovative strategy to institutionalize inclusive, evidence-based practices for selecting and training a diverse, innovative, and globally competitive scientific workforce. The primary partners in the IGEN Alliance are the American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, American Geophysical Union, American Astronomical Society, and Materials Research Society. These societies are uniquely positioned to lead efforts in the physical sciences that empower faculty members to reform and improve their graduate education practices. Together, our partners represent a constellation of organizations and individuals from disciplinary societies representing UREM students, major national laboratories, prominent industries, and leading social science researchers, who can address systemic issues that inhibit success of underrepresented students in attaining doctoral degrees - degrees that enable them to advance science and provide technological innovations for the United States.To achieve our participation and completion goals, our Alliance is 1) catalyzing UREM graduate enrollment through new application and holistic review processes championed by the professional societies in each discipline, 2) sustaining such growth by propagating programs that create more inclusive graduate education environments, and 3) improving student mentoring through critical transitions from undergraduate experiences, graduate school, and finally into the workforce. Collectively defined metrics are being used to ensure program components are supporting progress towards the Alliance's goals. The IGEN backbone organization is building infrastructure, processes, communications, and networks that support the widespread adoption of effective inclusive practices in graduate STEM education. The Alliance's Research and Inclusive Practices Hubs support leadership development, both in graduate education research and inclusive graduate education practice and professional development. Each IGEN Alliance component is designed with two principles in mind: national-scale impact and long-term sustainability. While IGEN is beginning its work in the physical sciences, expansion is being actively pursued through dialog with other disciplines including engineering, computer science, biological sciences, and mathematics. Professional societies have the unique opportunity to lead as advocates for commonly held values, as centralized sources for effective practice, and as organizations that can sustain long-term initiatives. The leadership of each society is committed to this challenge and is strategically aligning to this NSF INCLUDES Alliance's vision of achieving equity for underrepresented groups in doctoral degree attainment. This NSF INCLUDES Alliance is co-funded by the Division of Physics in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate. This NSF INCLUDES Alliance is also funded by the NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program, which targets increasing the number of historically underrepresented minority faculty in STEM disciplines.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.