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加州大学（UC）的四个校区：尔湾，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HSI -目标是开发，实施，自学，评估和传播AGEP联盟模式，以增加以拉丁裔教学为重点的STEM教师的数量。AGEP联盟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，在合作机构之间分享措施，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。在数学、物理和生命科学以及工程院系，将根据每个校园的社会和学术背景以及财政状况而有所不同。除了支持STEM教师研究员作为代理来改善招聘实践和部门氛围外，AGEP联盟还将为教师搜索过程和候选人教学技能评估创建和实施客观的规则。随着国家解决少数民族和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、留住和提升多样化的STEM教师群体，以作为学生学习、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，少数种族和族裔的STEM副教授和正教授仅占这些高级教师职位的8%左右，在美国最具研究密集型的机构中，这一比例仅为6%左右。这种AGEP联盟模式有可能提高拉丁裔STEM学者在数学、物理和生命科学以及工程领域向早期职业教师职位过渡的成功率，以及早期职业教师晋升和/或终身职位的成功率。推进拉丁裔教师的职业生涯最终会改善对STEM学科的本科生、研究生和博士后学者的学术指导。AGEP联盟的综合研究将研究以教学为重点的早期职业拉丁裔STEM教师如何过渡到教师职位。一个国家的样本将调查使用叙事调查方法。一名评估员将对AGEP联盟进行形成性评估，另一名独立评估员将对项目进行总结性评估。并设有独立评审小组，对项目进行形成性及总结性评审。此外，AGEP联盟将定期与顾问委员会和机构领导委员会协商，以收集自我学习和持续改进项目的意见。最后，传播计划包括一个结构，以便在当地分享联盟的工作并在国家专业和学科会议上介绍该项目；同行评议的出版物也在计划之中。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 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.