AGEP Research Universities Alliance Model: Advancing Minority Math, Physical Science, Environmental Science, and Engineering PhD Candidates and Postdoctoral Scholars to Faculty

AGEP 研究型大学联盟模式：促进少数族裔数学、物理科学、环境科学和工程博士生和博士后学者进入教师队伍

• 批准号: 2014200
• 负责人: David Sept
• 金额: $ 51.18万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-10-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2014200&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AGEP; Research; Universities; Alliance; Model

This collaborative research project brings together nine very high research (R1) universities with the goal of developing, implementing, self-studying, externally evaluating, and disseminating an AGEP Alliance Model about faculty career pathways that increases the number of historically underrepresented minority (URM) Mathematical, Physical Science, Environmental Science, and Engineering (MPESE) faculty. The partnership involves the University of California Berkeley (Berkeley), the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Stanford University (Stanford), the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Washington, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan, Harvard University and the Georgia Institute of Technology. The Alliance team is expanding and improving activities that have previously been piloted by a Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford and Caltech partnership; and the nine-institution team will study, operationalize, adapt and implement the activities across all collaborating universities. The project employs multiple participant-focused interventions to facilitate the advancement of URM doctoral candidates, postdoctoral scholars and early-career faculty in MPESE disciplines: A doctoral candidate and postdoctoral scholar research exchange across partnering institutions; an on-line portal to facilitate placement and hiring management of postdoctoral scholars; a faculty advancement initiative for postdoctoral scholars transitioning into early-career faculty positions; and a suite of academic community-building activities to enhance faculty career pathways, such as targeted professional development, cohort building and network development. The primary outcomes of this AGEP Alliance Model project are increased rates of doctoral candidates transitioning into postdoctoral scholar positions and postdoctoral scholars transitioning into early-career faculty employment, as well as the scaling of the research exchange and postdoctoral on-line portal beyond the nine partnering institutions.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. This AGEP Alliance Model has the potential to improve the success of URM doctoral candidates and postdoctoral scholars transitioning into early-career MPESE faculty positions. Advancing the careers of URM faculty ultimately leads to improved academic mentorship for URM undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars, 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.

这个合作研究项目汇集了九所非常高研究(R1)的大学，目标是开发、实施、自学、外部评估和传播关于教师职业道路的AGEP联盟模式，以增加历史上代表性不足的少数族裔(URM)数学、物理、环境科学和工程学(MPESE)教师的数量。合作伙伴包括加州大学伯克利分校(Berkeley)、加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)、斯坦福大学(Stanford)、加州理工学院(Caltech)、华盛顿大学、德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校、密歇根大学、哈佛大学和佐治亚理工学院。联盟团队正在扩大和改进以前由伯克利大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校、斯坦福大学和加州理工学院合作开展的活动；由九个机构组成的团队将在所有合作的大学中研究、运作、调整和实施这些活动。该项目采用了多种以参与者为重点的干预措施，以促进在MPESE学科中促进URM博士后候选人、博士后学者和职业早期教师的进步：跨合作机构的博士后候选人和博士后学者研究交流；促进博士后学者安置和招聘管理的在线门户网站；为过渡到职业生涯早期教师职位的博士后学者教师进步计划；以及一系列学术社区建设活动，以加强教师职业生涯路径，如有针对性的专业发展、队列建设和网络发展。这个AGEP联盟模式项目的主要成果是提高了博士后候选人过渡到博士后学者职位和博士后学者过渡到职业生涯早期教师工作的比率，以及研究交流和博士后在线门户网站的规模超出了九个合作机构。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、保留和提升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。NSF最近的报告显示，在所有四年制学院和大学中，URM STEM副教授和正教授只占这些高级教员职位的8%，在美国研究最密集的机构中，只占这些职位的6%左右。这种AGEP联盟模式有可能提高URM博士后候选人和博士后学者过渡到职业生涯早期MPESE教师职位的成功率。推进URM教师的职业生涯最终会改善对URM本科生和研究生以及STEM学科博士后学者的学术指导。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。