The AGEP California State University Underrepresented Minority STEM Faculty Alliance Model: A Culturally-Informed Strengths-Based Approach to Advance Early-Career Faculty Success

AGEP 加州州立大学代表性不足的少数族裔 STEM 教师联盟模型：一种基于文化的优势方法，促进早期职业教师的成功

• 批准号: 1916046
• 负责人: Philip Vieira
• 金额: $ 33.21万
• 依托单位: California State University-Dominguez Hills Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1916046&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AGEP; California; State; University; Underrepresented

This collaborative research project brings together four California State Universities (CSU), California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona, CSU-Dominguez Hills, and CSU-Fresno, with the goal of developing, implementing, studying, evaluating, disseminating and scaling an AGEP Alliance Model. The project employs a culturally-informed, strengths-based faculty development approach for advancing newly hired historically underrepresented minority (URM) faculty in STEM and STEM Education research fields. The early-career faculty interventions include trainings about culturally-informed strengths and identity, senior faculty mentoring, peer coaching and networking, and grant proposal writing trainings. The primary outcomes of this AGEP Alliance Model project are improved faculty retention, promotion and tenure for the URM early-career faculty in STEM at CSU campuses.The California Minority STEM Faculty AGEP Alliance Model 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 Alliances develop, replicate or reproduce, implement, and study, via integrated educational and social science research, AGEP Alliance Models to transform the dissertation phase of doctoral education, postdoctoral training and/or faculty advancement, and transitions within and across the pathway levels, of URMs in STEM and/or STEM Education research careers. 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 only 8% of these senior faculty positions at all 4-year colleges and universities, and only about 6% of these positions at the nation's most research-intensive institutions. The California Minority STEM Faculty AGEP Alliance has the potential to advance a model to improve the success of URM early-career STEM, and STEM Education, faculty. Advancing the careers of these minority faculty ultimately leads to improved academic mentorship for URM undergraduate students in STEM and STEM Education research fields.The integrated social science research being conducted by this Alliance examines how URM STEM faculty integrate their academic discipline, social and cultural identities, and their strengths, into their faculty identities. The research also addresses questions about how STEM faculty professional networks relate to sense of belonging, job satisfaction, academic self-efficacy, teaching evaluations, success and engagement; and it explores questions about what structural variables of the professional networks relate to faculty success and engagement within the networks. The project uses social network analysis methods in a mixed methods study design.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.

该合作研究项目汇集了四所加州州立大学 (CSU)、加州理工州立大学圣路易斯奥比斯波分校、加州州立理工大学波莫纳分校、加州州立理工大学多明格斯山分校和加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校，其目标是开发、实施、研究、评估、传播和扩展 AGEP 联盟模型。 该项目采用基于文化的、基于优势的教师发展方法，以促进 STEM 和 STEM 教育研究领域新雇用的历史上代表性不足的少数族裔 (URM) 教师的发展。 早期职业教师干预包括有关文化​​背景优势和身份的培训、高级教师指导、同伴辅导和网络以及拨款提案写作培训。 该 AGEP 联盟模型项目的主要成果是提高了科罗拉多州立大学校园 STEM 领域 URM 早期职业教师的保留率、晋升和任期。加州少数 STEM 教师 AGEP 联盟模型是为了响应 NSF 研究生教育和教授联盟 (AGEP) 计划征集 (NSF 16-552) 而创建的。 GEP 项目旨在增进有关模型的知识，以改善特定 STEM 学科和/或 STEM 教育研究领域的 URM 研究生、博士后研究员和教师的教授职位和成功之路。 AGEP 联盟通过综合教育和社会科学研究开发、复制或复制、实施和研究 AGEP 联盟模型，以改变 STEM 和/或 STEM 教育研究职业中 URM 的博士教育论文阶段、博士后培训和/或教师晋升，以及衔接级别内部和跨衔接级别的过渡。随着国家解决 URM 与非 URM 本科生和研究生之间的 STEM 成绩差距，我们的大学和学院努力招募、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。最近的 NSF 报告表明，在所有四年制学院和大学中，URM STEM 副教授和正教授仅占这些高级教职职位的 8%，而在全国研究最密集的机构中，仅占这些职位的 6% 左右。加州少数族裔 STEM 教师 AGEP 联盟有潜力推进一种模式，以提高 URM 早期职业 STEM 和 STEM 教育教师的成功率。 促进这些少数族裔教师的职业生涯最终会改善对 URM 本科生在 STEM 和 STEM 教育研究领域的学术指导。该联盟正在进行的综合社会科学研究考察 URM STEM 教师如何将他们的学科、社会和文化身份以及他们的优势融入到他们的教师身份中。 该研究还解决了 STEM 教师专业网络如何与归属感、工作满意度、学术自我效能、教学评估、成功和参与相关的问题；它还探讨了专业网络的哪些结构变量与教师的成功和网络参与度相关的问题。 该项目在混合方法研究设计中使用社交网络分析方法。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。