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

历史黑人学院和大学(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，并在历史上代表不足的少数民族(URM)STEM博士生中培养强烈的教师认同感，以完成他们的博士学位和在专业领域的进步。美国三所顶尖的HBCU，霍华德大学、摩根州立大学和汉普顿大学，非洲裔美国STEM博士学位的顶级生产商，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德岛社区学院组成。联盟团队将共同努力，支持HBCU的博士生发展教学自我效能感和教师身份认同，以提高URM STEM博士生选择和坚持学术生涯的可能性。博士生将参加网上研讨会和研讨会，重点是教授的基础和概念方面以及教学技能。他们的培训将达到顶峰，在社区大学做一年的学徒，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计划致力于增进有关模式的知识，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教育研究领域获得教授和成功的途径。AGEP联盟开发、复制或复制、实施和研究联盟模式，通过教育和社会科学的综合研究，为STEM和/或STEM教育研究生涯中的URM开发、复制或复制、实施和研究联盟模式，以改变博士教育的论文阶段、博士后培训和/或教师晋升，以及路径级别内和跨路径的过渡。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，他们充当学生学习、合作和效仿的榜样和学术领袖。尽管迫切需要增加URM教员的数量，以确保URM学生的成功，但URM STEM教员的比例仍然只占大学和两年制学院终身教职的理工科教员的6%左右。综合研究项目将调查URM STEM博士生的兴趣和承诺，他们来自多个授予学位的HBCU，对教授职业的兴趣和承诺。该项目不仅将引导URM STEM博士生晋升为教授，还将通过了解这一选择的动机，为如何增加这些学生在选择学术职业方面的数量提供洞察力。项目进展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者的贡献来监督。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。外部顾问委员会(EAB)将为加强项目活动和研究提供投入。AGEP HBCU联盟模式的三个协作奖由NSF的AGEP计划和HBCU-本科计划资助。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。

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.