The AGEP Alliance Model for Advancing the Faculty Careers of Underrepresented Minority STEM Doctoral Candidates who are Instructors at Historically Black Universities

GEP 联盟模型，用于促进在历史悠久的黑人大学担任讲师的少数族裔 STEM 博士候选人的教师职业生涯

• 批准号: 2015286
• 负责人: Brenda Brand
• 金额: $ 199.6万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 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: 2020-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2015286&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AGEP; Alliance; Model; Advancing; Faculty

This project will develop, implement, study, and disseminate an AGEP Alliance model to provide faculty professional development and career preparation to African Americans and other historically underrepresented minority STEM doctoral candidates, who are also instructors at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), for completion of their PhD degree and progression in early career faculty positions. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a STEM-focused research intensive university, will lead a team that includes subawards to three HBCUs, Morgan State University, Virginia State University, and Jackson State University, as well as another STEM-focused research intensive university, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. The model brings together faculty from HBCUs and research universities to recruit, train and mentor the doctoral candidates, already working as instructors at HBCUs, to support them in overcoming sociocultural and professional barriers to completing their PhDs and continue on in the professoriate. The Alliance 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.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. An NSF report from 2015 determined that only 40% of Black/African American doctoral students were completing their STEM doctoral degrees. A 2018 poll of STEM faculty working at HBCUs in the southeast region of the United States revealed that 32% from selected STEM disciplines do not have terminal degrees. The integrated research project will identify and illuminate potential sociocultural and professional barriers to doctoral degree completion by examining institutional environments, student development, support relationships as well as retention and persistence. Advancing the careers of URM faculty ultimately leads to improved academic mentorship for undergraduate and graduate students in STEM fields.Evaluation of project progress and goal completion will be monitored through the leadership team self-study and with the contributions of an external evaluator. The Alliance will also receive input from two advisory boards. The Institutional Advisory Board will be focused on the institutional level work of the project and developing means for integrating the project activities and outcomes into institutional policies and procedures. The External Advisory Board will provide input for strengthening project activities and research.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.

该项目将开发，实施，研究和传播AGEP联盟模式，为非洲裔美国人和其他历史上代表性不足的少数民族STEM博士候选人提供教师专业发展和职业准备，他们也是历史上黑人学院和大学（HBCU）的讲师，完成他们的博士学位和早期职业教师职位的进展。弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学，一个以STEM为重点的研究密集型大学，将领导一个团队，其中包括三个HBCU的子奖项，摩根州立大学，弗吉尼亚州立大学和杰克逊州立大学，以及另一个以STEM为重点的研究密集型大学，安布里里德尔航空大学。该模式汇集了来自HBCUs和研究型大学的教师，以招聘，培训和指导已经在HBCUs担任讲师的博士候选人，以支持他们克服完成博士学位的社会文化和专业障碍，并继续教授。该联盟是为了响应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计划旨在推进有关模型的知识，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教育研究领域的教授和成功途径。AGEP联盟开发，复制或复制，实施和研究，通过综合教育和社会科学研究，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，以及在路径级别内和之间的过渡，为URM在干和/或干教育研究事业。随着国家解决URM和非URM之间的STEM成就差距，URM本科生和研究生，我们的大学和学院努力招聘，留住和促进URM STEM教师谁作为榜样和学术领袖，为学生学习，工作和效仿。2015年NSF的一份报告显示，只有40%的黑人/非裔美国人博士生完成了STEM博士学位。2018年对在美国东南部HBCU工作的STEM教师进行的一项民意调查显示，选定的STEM学科中有32%没有最终学位。该综合研究项目将通过检查制度环境，学生发展，支持关系以及保留和持久性来确定和阐明完成博士学位的潜在社会文化和专业障碍。推进URM教师的职业生涯最终会改善本科生和研究生在STEM领域的学术指导。项目进度和目标完成情况的评估将通过领导团队自学和外部评估员的贡献进行监控。联盟还将收到两个咨询委员会的意见。机构咨询委员会将侧重于项目的机构一级工作，并制定将项目活动和成果纳入机构政策和程序的手段。外部咨询委员会将为加强项目活动和研究提供投入。该奖项反映了NSF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。