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

加州少数族裔STEM教师AGEP联盟模型是根据美国国家科学基金会研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）项目征集（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联盟通过综合教育和社会科学研究，开发、复制、实施和研究AGEP联盟模式，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。这个合作研究项目汇集了四所加州州立大学（CSU），加州州立理工大学-圣路易斯奥比斯波分校，加州州立理工大学-波莫纳分校，加州州立大学-多明格斯山分校和加州州立大学-弗雷斯诺分校，目标是开发，实施，研究，评估，传播和扩展AGEP联盟模型。该项目采用了一种了解文化、基于优势的教师发展方法，以促进STEM和STEM教育研究领域新聘用的历史上代表性不足的少数民族（URM）教师。早期职业生涯的教师干预包括关于文化知识优势和身份的培训，高级教师指导，同伴指导和网络，以及拨款提案写作培训。AGEP联盟模式项目的主要成果是改善了科罗拉多州立大学校园内URM STEM早期职业教师的留任、晋升和终身教职。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副教授和正教授只占这些高级教师职位的8%，在美国最具研究密集型的机构中，这些职位只占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。推动这些少数民族教师的职业发展最终会改善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了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他们的教师身份。该研究还探讨了STEM教师专业网络与归属感、工作满意度、学术自我效能感、教学评估、成功和参与度之间的关系；它还探讨了专业网络的哪些结构变量与教师的成功和参与有关的问题。本课题采用社会网络分析方法进行混合方法研究设计。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 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. 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.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.