An AGEP Historically Black Universities Model with Community College Teaching as a Platform for Advancing Underrepresented Minority STEM Doctoral Candidates in Faculty Careers

AGEP 历史上的黑人大学模式，以社区大学教学为平台，促进代表性不足的少数族裔 STEM 博士候选人的教师职业生涯

• 批准号: 2015293
• 负责人: Dana Williams
• 金额: $ 144.53万
• 依托单位: Howard 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 2027-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2015293&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: AGEP; Historically; Black; Universities; Model

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Alliance Model will develop, implement, study, evaluate and disseminate an AGEP alliance model to increase teaching self-efficacy and develop a strong faculty identity in historically underrepresented minority (URM) STEM doctoral candidates attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities, for completion of their PhD degree and advancement in the professoriate. Three of the nation’s premier HBCUs, Howard University, Morgan State University, and Hampton University, top producers of African American STEM PhDs, will work on this project with the Community College Network (CCN) comprised of Prince George’s Community College, Community College of Baltimore, Thomas Nelson Community College, and the Community College of Rhode Island. The Alliance team will work together to support doctoral candidates at the HBCUs in developing teaching self-efficacy and faculty identity to improve the likelihood of URM STEM doctoral candidates choosing and persisting in an academic career. Doctoral candidates will participate in webinars and workshops focusing on foundational and conceptual aspects of the professoriate as well as pedagogical skills. Their training will culminate in a one year apprenticeship at a community college, spending one semester observing a faculty mentor and then teaching a course the second semester.This AGEP HBCU 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.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. Despite the compelling need for increasing the number of URM faculty to ensure the success of URM students, the percentage of URM STEM faculty remains at only about 6% of tenure-track science and engineering faculty members at universities and two-year colleges. The integrated research project will investigate the interest and commitment of URM STEM doctoral students, across multiple degree-granting HBCUs, to careers in the professoriate. This project will not only lead to URM STEM doctoral students advancing to the professoriate, but also will provide insight into how to increase the numbers of these students in choosing academic careers through an understanding of the motivation for this choice.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 (IAB) 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 (EAB) will provide input for strengthening project activities and research.The three collaborative awards for this AGEP HBCU Alliance Model were funded by the NSF's AGEP program and HBCU-Undergraduate Program.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.

历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）联盟模式将开发，实施，研究，评估和传播AGEP联盟模式，以提高教学自我效能，并在历史上代表性不足的少数民族（URM）STEM博士候选人中发展强大的教师身份参加历史上的黑人学院和大学，完成他们的博士学位和教授的进步。全国首屈一指的三所HBCU，霍华德大学，摩根州立大学和汉普顿大学，非洲裔美国人STEM博士的顶级生产商，将与社区学院网络（CCN）合作开展这一项目，该网络由乔治王子社区学院，巴尔的摩社区学院，托马斯纳尔逊社区学院和罗得岛社区学院组成。联盟团队将共同努力，支持HBCU的博士生发展教学自我效能和教师身份，以提高URM STEM博士生选择和坚持学术生涯的可能性。博士生将参加网络研讨会和讲习班，重点是教授的基础和概念方面以及教学技能。他们的培训将在社区大学为期一年的学徒期结束，花一个学期观察教师导师，然后在第二学期教授一门课程。这个AGEP HBCU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的本科生和研究生，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的学生学习，工作，并效仿。尽管迫切需要增加URM教师的数量，以确保URM学生的成功，URM STEM教师的比例仍然只有约6%的大学和两年制学院的终身教职科学和工程教师。综合研究项目将调查URM STEM博士生的兴趣和承诺，在多个学位授予HBCU，在教授的职业生涯。该项目不仅将帮助URM STEM博士生晋升为教授，还将通过了解这些学生选择学术职业的动机，深入了解如何增加这些学生选择学术职业的数量。项目进度和目标完成情况的评估将通过领导团队的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（IAB）将侧重于项目的机构层面工作，并制定将项目活动和成果纳入机构政策和程序的方法。外部咨询委员会（EAB）将为加强项目活动和研究提供投入。AGEP HBCU联盟模式的三个合作奖项由NSF的AGEP计划和HBCU-本科生计划资助。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。