Collaborative Research: Examining the effects of academic mobility on individual professors’ research activity and institutional human capital at HBCUs

该奖项全部或部分由《2021年美国救援计划法案》（公法117-2）资助。HBCUs占美国高等教育机构的3%，但为培养黑人专业人才做出了重大贡献。尽管取得了这些成就，但自20世纪60年代以来，HBCUs在与非HBCUs争夺最有才华的黑人学生和教师方面经常失败，导致HBCUs的“人才流失”。由于过去几十年的社会流动性和民权运动，对hbcu教师学术流动性的调查需求日益增加。这个项目的目标是研究学术流动的两种形式的影响。首先是机构层面的影响，衡量hbcu潜在的人才流失。第二个是对教师个人水平的影响，评估学术变动对他们职业发展的影响。这项大规模的纵向分析结果将为hbcu教授的职业道路提供重要证据，包括那些转到其他hbcu的教授和那些转到其他类型机构的教授。该项目将确定并试图了解与HBCU教师的流动性和保留决策相关的因素，并提供数据支持的证据，以支持多元化，包容性和公平的科学劳动力。该项目将收集35所拥有硕士或博士学位项目的HBCUs的教员关系数据。它将使用Internet Archive作为主要数据源，LinkedIn、ORCID和ProQuest作为辅助数据源。该项目将连接庞大的异构语料库，包括教师隶属关系数据、卡内基分类机构简介数据、Web of Science出版物和引文数据，以及调查和访谈数据。相关数据将用于开展广泛的跨领域研究，以考察学术变动对教授个人研究活动和机构人力资本的影响。该项目将采用统计建模和历史比较，并结合调查和访谈。定量和定性结果的结合将为HBCUs机构人力资本变化的原因以及变动对教授研究活动的影响提供证据。该项目将提供关于学术流动的新知识，特别是为少数民族服务的机构（msi）。该项目将设计一个交互式可视化仪表板，以广泛共享项目产出。可视化仪表板将在项目结束后的三年里每年9月更新一次。该项目的结果将为管理人员和政策制定者提供见解。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 award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).HBCUs comprise 3 percent of higher education institutions in the United States but make substantial contributions to the preparation of Black professionals. Despite these achievements, HBCUs, since the 1960s, often lose the battle with non-HBCUs for the most talented Black students and faculty, causing a “brain drain” from HBCUs. Because of social mobility and civil rights movements in the past few decades, the need to investigate academic mobility of faculty at HBCUs is ever-increasing. The goal of this project is to examine two forms of effects of academic mobility. The first is the effect at the institution level, measuring the potential brain drain from HBCUs. The second is the effect at the individual faculty level, assesses the impact of academic moves on their career advancement. Results from this large-scale, longitudinal analysis will provide important evidence regarding the career paths of professors at HBCUs, including those moving to other HBCUs and those moving to other types of institution. This project will identify and seek to understand factors associated with mobility and retention decisions for HBCU faculty and provide data-backed evidence to support a diverse, inclusive, and equitable scientific workforce. The project will collect faculty affiliation data from 35 HBCUs with master- or doctoral-level programs. It will use Internet Archive as the primary data source and LinkedIn, ORCID, and ProQuest as secondary data sources. The project will link large, heterogeneous corpora of faculty affiliation data, Carnegie Classification institution profile data, Web of Science publication and citation data, and survey and interview data. The linked data will be used to conduct expansive, cross-domain examinations of the impact of academic moves on individual professors’ research activity and institutional human capital. The project will employ statistical modeling and historical comparisons in combination with surveys and interviews. The combination of quantitative and qualitative results will provide evidence concerning both the causes of institutional human capital change at HBCUs and the effect of moves on professors’ research activities. This project will contribute new knowledge on academic mobility, particularly for minority-serving institutions (MSIs). The project will design an interactive visual dashboard to share project outputs broadly. The visual dashboard will be updated annually in September for three additional years beyond the conclusion of the project. The results of this project will provide insights for administrators and policy makers.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.