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: 2014600
• 负责人: Renate Lux
• 金额: $ 19.85万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 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 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2014600&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个非常高的研究（R1）大学，其目标是开发，实施，自学，外部评估和传播关于教师职业道路的AGEP联盟模型，该模型增加了历史上代表性不足的少数民族（URM）数学，物理科学，环境科学和工程（MPESE）教师的数量。 该伙伴关系涉及加州伯克利大学（伯克利）、加州洛杉矶大学（加州大学洛杉矶分校）、斯坦福大学（斯坦福）、加州理工学院（加州理工学院）、华盛顿大学、得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校、密歇根大学、哈佛大学和格鲁吉亚理工学院。 联盟小组正在扩大和改进以前由伯克利、加州大学洛杉矶分校、斯坦福大学和加州理工学院伙伴关系试点开展的活动;由9个机构组成的小组将在所有合作大学研究、实施、调整和实施这些活动。 该项目采用多种以参与者为重点的干预措施，以促进URM博士候选人，博士后学者和早期职业教师在MPESE学科的进步：博士候选人和博士后学者在合作机构之间的研究交流;在线门户网站，以促进博士后学者的安置和招聘管理;博士后学者过渡到早期职业教师职位的教师进步倡议;以及一套学术社区建设活动，以加强教师的职业发展途径，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增加博士候选人过渡到博士后学者职位和博士后学者过渡到早期职业教师就业的比率，以及研究交流和博士后在线门户网站的规模超出九个合作机构。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，保留和促进URM STEM教师谁作为榜样和学术领袖URM学生学习，工作和效仿。NSF最近的报告表明，URM STEM副教授和正教授在所有4年制学院和大学中仅占这些高级教师职位的8%，在美国最研究密集型的机构中仅占这些职位的6%左右。这种AGEP联盟模式有可能提高URM博士候选人和博士后学者过渡到早期职业MPESE教师职位的成功。 推进URM教师的职业生涯最终会改善URM本科生和研究生以及博士后学者在STEM学科的学术指导。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。