The AGEP Florida Alliance Model: Improving Minority Women Success in STEM Faculty Careers

AGEP佛罗里达联盟模式是为了响应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、实施和研究联盟模式，以改变STEM和/或STEM教育研究生涯中的博士教育、博士后培训和/或教师晋升的博士论文阶段，以及路径级别内和跨路径级别的过渡。这一合作研究项目汇集了南佛罗里达大学、佛罗里达纪念大学、白求恩-库克曼大学、佛罗里达国际大学和佛罗里达农业机械大学，组成了AGEP佛罗里达联盟模式项目。联盟团队正在开发、实施、研究、评估、传播和维持AGEP联盟模式，以成功推动STEM教师的职业生涯成果，帮助历史上代表性不足的少数族裔(URM)女性博士生、博士后研究人员和职业生涯早期教师。该项目的重点是通过研究训练营经验、终身女性STEM教师的指导和指导以及通过国家教师发展和多样性中心获得支持网络和计划，对职业发展培训进行干预。此外，联盟团队正在动员校园管理人员和领导层，以解决限制URM女性在STEM教师职业生涯中取得成功的系统性制度障碍。这一AGEP佛罗里达联盟项目的目标成果包括一大批URM女性出版其STEM学科的学术著作，确保教师职位和获得终身教职。该项目的愿景是看到合作大学的合作工作持续下去，并看到我国其他机构适应、采用和复制这种AGEP联盟模式。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、留住和提升URM STEM教师，他们是学生学习、合作和效仿的榜样和学术领袖。NSF最近的报告显示，在所有四年制学院和大学中，URM STEM副教授和正教授仅占高级教员职位的8%，在美国研究最密集的机构中，仅占约6%。AGEP佛罗里达联盟有潜力推动一种模式，以提高女性URM博士生和博士后研究人员在进入STEM教师职业生涯时的成功，并通过终身教职和晋升来促进URM女性在职业生涯早期担任STEM教师。推进URM女教员的职业生涯最终会改善STEM领域本科生和研究生的学术指导。AGEP联盟团队正在进行的综合教育研究调查了潜在的个人、人际、组织和专业问题和经验，这些问题和经历促进或阻碍了URM女性STEM教师的职业生涯进入、坚持和晋升。研究小组还在调查STEM的URM女性如何培养技能、知识和能力，以成功进入并坚持教师职业生涯。有一个研究咨询委员会向AGEP佛罗里达联盟研究小组提供反馈。AGEP佛罗里达联盟示范机构正在与一名独立的外部评估员合作，该评估员正在进行形成性和终结性评估。该AGEP联盟还聘请了两个咨询委员会--AGEP佛罗里达联盟示范外部咨询委员会和机构执行领导委员会--向各机构和项目团队提供反馈，并就模式开发、实施、测试、评估、传播、可持续性和复制潜力方面的项目管理提出调整建议。院校行政领导委员会也正在解决需要改革的体制障碍，以成功地促进URM STEM女学生、博士后研究人员和职业生涯早期的教师过渡到或通过教师专业。该项目团队正在传播他们的研究成果，以及他们在AGEP佛罗里达联盟模式的开发、实施、自学、评估、传播、可持续性和复制潜力方面的工作成果，方法是在STEM专业学会的全国会议上发表演讲，并在专业新闻上发表同行评议文章。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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 AGEP Florida 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, Alliance Models to transform the dissertation phase of doctoral education, postdoctoral training and/or faculty advancement, and transitions within and across the pathway levels, for URMs in STEM and/or STEM education research careers. This collaborative research project brings together the University of South Florida, Florida Memorial University, Bethune-Cookman University, Florida International University and Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University to form the AGEP Florida Alliance Model project. The Alliance team is developing, implementing, studying, evaluating, disseminating and sustaining an AGEP Alliance Model to successfully advance STEM faculty career outcomes for historically underrepresented minority (URM) women doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and early-career faculty. The project focuses interventions on professional development training via research boot camp experiences, mentoring and coaching by tenured women STEM faculty, and accessing support networks and programs through the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity. Additionally, the Alliance team is engaging campus administrators and leadership to address systemic institutional barriers that are limiting the success of URM women in STEM faculty careers. The targeted outcomes of this AGEP Florida Alliance project include a large group of URM women publishing scholarly work in their STEM disciplines, securing faculty positions and earning tenure. The project's vision is to see the collaborative work sustained at the partnering universities and to see other institutions in our country adapt, adopt and reproduce this AGEP Alliance Model.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 students to learn from, work with and emulate. Recent NSF reports indicate that URM STEM associate and full professors occupy only 8% of senior faculty positions at all four-year colleges and universities, and only about 6% of those positions at the nation's most research-intensive institutions. The AGEP Florida Alliance has the potential to advance a model to improve the success of female URM doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers as they enter STEM faculty careers, and to advance URM women early-career STEM faculty through tenure and promotion. Advancing the careers of URM women faculty ultimately leads to improved academic mentorship for undergraduate and graduate students in STEM fields. The integrated education research being conducted by this AGEP Alliance team investigates the underlying personal, interpersonal, organizational and professional issues and experiences that facilitate or inhibit URM women STEM faculty career entrance, persistence and advancement. The research team is also investigating ways that URM women in STEM build skills, knowledge and competencies to successfully enter and persist in faculty careers. There is a Research Advisory Board that provides feedback to the AGEP Florida Alliance research team.The AGEP Florida Alliance Model institutions are working with an independent external evaluator who is conducting formative and summative evaluations. This AGEP Alliance also engages two advisory boards - an AGEP Florida Alliance Model External Advisory Board and an institutional Executive Leadership Board - that provide feedback to the institutions and the project team, and that suggest adjustments to project management about model development, implementation, testing, evaluation, dissemination, sustainability and reproduction potential. The institutional Executive Leadership Board is also addressing the institutional barriers that warrant change to successfully advance women URM STEM students, postdoctoral researchers and early-career faculty in their transitions into and through faculty professions. The project team is disseminating findings from their research, and from their work on the AGEP Florida Alliance Model's development, implementation, self-study, evaluation, dissemination, sustainability and reproduction potential, by presenting at national conferences of STEM professional societies and publishing peer-reviewed articles in professional journals.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.