The AGEP University of California Alliance: A Model to Advance Equitable Hiring of Teaching-Focused Faculty in STEM

这个合作研究项目汇集了四个加州大学（UC）校区：欧文，圣地亚哥，圣巴巴拉和圣克鲁斯-所有这些都是西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）或新兴的HSI-与开发，实施，自学，评估和传播AGEP联盟模型的目标是增加拉丁美洲教学为重点的STEM教师的数量。 AGEP联盟的合作伙伴将采用一个集体影响框架，以确保有一个共同的AGEP联盟议程，在伙伴机构之间分享措施，实施相互加强的活动和干预措施，促进持续的沟通，并与支持AGEP联盟活动，干预措施和沟通的骨干组织（加州大学圣地亚哥分校）接触。 谁被提议在数学，物理和生命科学，以及工程部门聘请拉丁教学为重点的教师，将根据每个校园的社会和学术环境，和财政状况而有所不同。 除了支持STEM教师研究员作为代理人，以改善招聘实践和部门气氛，AGEP联盟将创建和实施客观的评分标准，用于教师搜索过程和候选人的教学技能评估。随着国家解决种族和少数民族与非少数民族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STEM教师的多元化群体，作为榜样和学术领袖，让学生学习，工作和效仿。NSF最近的报告显示，在所有四年制学院和大学中，少数民族STEM副教授和正教授仅占这些高级教师职位的8%左右，在美国最研究密集型的机构中，这些职位仅占6%左右。这种AGEP联盟模式有可能提高拉丁美洲STEM学者过渡到早期职业教师职位的成功，以及早期职业教师晋升和/或终身教职，在数学，物理和生命科学，以及工程。 推进Latinx教师的职业生涯最终会改善STEM学科的本科生、研究生和博士后学者的学术指导。AGEP联盟的综合研究将探讨从事教学工作的早期职业Latinx STEM教师如何经历过渡到教师职位。 将采用叙述性调查方法对全国样本进行调查。一名评价员将对AGEP联盟进行初步评价，另一名独立评价员将管理总结性项目评价。 此外，亦有独立的评估小组进行形成性及总结性的项目评估。 此外，AGEP联盟将定期与咨询委员会和机构领导理事会协商，为自我研究和持续改进项目收集意见。 最后，传播计划包括一个在当地分享联盟工作的结构，并在国家专业和学科会议上介绍该项目;还计划出版同行评审的出版物。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。

This collaborative research project brings together four University of California (UC) campuses: Irvine, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz – all of which are Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) or emerging HSIs - with the goal of developing, implementing, self-studying, evaluating, and disseminating an AGEP Alliance Model about increasing the number of Latinx teaching-focused STEM faculty. The AGEP Alliance partners will employ a collective impact framework to ensure there is a common AGEP Alliance agenda, to share measures across the partner institutions, to implement mutually reinforcing activities and interventions, to facilitate continuous communication, and to engage with the backbone organization (UC San Diego) that supports AGEP Alliance activities, interventions and communication. The Latinx teaching-focused faculty who are proposed to be hired in Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences, as well as Engineering departments, will vary depending on each campus’s social and academic context, and fiscal status. In addition to supporting STEM faculty fellows as agents to improve hiring practices and department climate, the AGEP Alliance will create and implement objective rubrics for both the teaching faculty search processes and for evaluation of candidates’ teaching skills.As the nation addresses a STEM achievement gap between racial and ethnic minority and non-minority undergraduate and graduate students, our universities and colleges struggle to recruit, retain and promote a diverse cohort of STEM faculty to serve as role models and academic leaders for students to learn from, work with and emulate. Recent NSF reports indicate that racial and ethnic minority STEM associate and full professors occupy only about 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 Latinx STEM scholars transitioning into early-career faculty positions, and early-career faculty advancing to promotion and/or tenure, in Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences, as well as Engineering. Advancing the careers of Latinx faculty ultimately leads to improved academic mentorship for undergraduate and graduate students, and postdoctoral scholars, in STEM disciplines.The AGEP Alliance’s integrated research study will examine how early career Latinx STEM faculty in teaching-focused roles experience the transition into the faculty positions. A national sample will be investigated using narrative inquiry methods. One evaluator will conduct the formative evaluation of the AGEP Alliance and a different independent evaluator will manage the summative project assessment. There were also be independent evaluation team to conduct formative and summative project evaluation. Additionally, the AGEP Alliance will consult regularly with an advisory board and an institutional leadership council, to garner input for self-study and continuous project improvement. Finally, the dissemination plan includes a structure to share the Alliance work locally and to present the project at national professional and disciplinary meetings; and peer-reviewed publications are also planned.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.