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

这个合作研究项目汇集了九所非常高的研究（R1）大学，目标是开发、实施、自学、外部评估和传播AGEP联盟模型，该模型关于教师职业道路，增加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。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分校、加州大学洛杉矶分校、斯坦福大学和加州理工学院合作试点的活动；由9所院校组成的团队将在所有合作大学中研究、实施、调整和实施这些活动。该项目采用多种以参与者为中心的干预措施，以促进URM博士候选人，博士后学者和MPESE学科的早期职业教师的进步：博士候选人和博士后学者在合作机构之间进行研究交流；促进博士后安置和聘用管理的在线门户网站；为博士后学者过渡到早期职业教师职位的教师晋升计划；以及一系列学术社区建设活动，以加强教师的职业发展途径，如有针对性的专业发展、队伍建设和网络发展。AGEP联盟模式项目的主要成果是提高了博士候选人转为博士后学者职位和博士后学者转为早期职业教师职位的比例，以及扩大了9个合作机构以外的研究交流和博士后在线门户网站。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。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教师职位的成功率。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。

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.