Collaborative Research: The AGEP Massachusetts State University System Equity-Minded Model for Recruiting and Advancing Early Career Faculty in the STEM Professoriate

马萨诸塞州公立高等教育系统的三个合作机构，弗雷明汉州立大学、布里奇沃特州立大学和伍斯特州立大学，正在共同开发和实施一种公平思维模式，以促进属于 AGEP 人群的早期职业 STEM 教师的发展：非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。 AGEP 教师职业路径联盟模型 (FCPAM) 的目标是开发、实施、评估 FCPAM 并将其制度化，以将机构转变为更具支持性和文化敏感性，以便教师通过早期职业道路的招聘和保留成功晋升为教学密集型综合性大学的终身教职。 FCPAM 正在提高早期职业教师的成功率，使教师人口统计数据将反映三个合作机构的学生人口统计数据。教师人口统计的这种变化最终将导致更多来自不同人群的 STEM 学生毕业，并增加 STEM 劳动力的多样性。增强 STEM 劳动力的多样性将有助于减轻系统性种族主义，促进工作场所的创新，并促进马萨诸塞州和我们国家的经济和繁荣。提高公平和包容性对于提高 STEM 师资力量、教育美国未来的 STEM 劳动力、培养个人机会以及为繁荣的美国经济做出贡献至关重要。因此，NSF AGEP 计划提供资助，促进和增强支持公平和包容性的系统性因素，从而减轻学术界和工作场所的系统性不平等。 FCPAM 奖项旨在支持联盟模型的开发、实施、评估和制度化，这些模型将在类似的高等教育机构内促进 AGEP 人口的发展。 FCPAM 合作者还研究社会文化、经济、结构、领导力和制度变量如何影响 FCPAM 的形成，以及合作者为促进 AGEP 人口而实施的策略或干预措施。该 FCPAM 的基础包括一个集群招聘策略，以招募不同的教师，他们将在大学内拥有共享的学习经验和支持系统，包括联合教师发展计划、教师指导计划、共同活动和共享资源。此外，该联盟还有一个合作计划，重点关注公平性，以审查、改变和调整机构政策和程序，以支持多元化教师的欢迎和支持性学术氛围。联盟将在项目的整个生命周期中使用形成性和总结性评估来记录结果并评估模型的优势和劣势。 FCPAM 发展和活动的自学将增进有关社会文化、经济、结构和制度变量如何影响联盟模式的发展和成功以及制度文化变革的知识。将使用交叉镜头来审查 FCPAM 活动对所招募​​的教员的成功的影响，这些影响包括种族、民族、性别、性认同、移民身份或国籍、能力以及作为看护者或家长。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Three collaborating institutions in the Massachusetts Public Higher Education System, Framingham State University, Bridgewater State University and Worcester State University, are working together to develop and implement an equity-minded model for advancing early career STEM faculty who are members of AGEP populations: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. This AGEP Faculty Career Pathways Alliance Model’s (FCPAM) goal is to develop, implement, evaluate and institutionalize a FCPAM for transforming institutions to be more supportive and culturally sensitive such that the faculty successfully advance through recruitment and retention along early career pathways to tenure in teaching intensive comprehensive universities. This FCPAM is improving the success of early-career faculty such that faculty demographics will mirror student demographics at the three collaborating institutions. This change in faculty demographics will ultimately result in graduating more STEM students from diverse populations and increasing diversity in the STEM workforce. Enhancing diversity within the STEM workforce will contribute to mitigating systemic racism, boosting innovation in the workplace, and enhancing the economy and prosperity within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and our Nation.Improving equity and inclusion is critical to advancing STEM faculty, educating America’s future STEM workforce, fostering individual opportunity and contributing to a thriving U.S. economy. The NSF AGEP program, therefore, funds grants that advance and enhance the systemic factors that support equity and inclusion and, consequently, mitigate the systemic inequities in the academic profession and workplace. FCPAM awards are intended to support the development, implementation, evaluation, and institutionalization of Alliance models that will advance AGEP populations, within similar institutions of higher education. FCPAM collaborators also study how socio-cultural, economic, structural, leadership and institutional variables affect the formation of the FCPAM, and the strategies or interventions the collaborators implement to advance AGEP populations.The foundation of this FCPAM includes a cluster hiring strategy to recruit diverse faculty who will have a shared learning experience and support system across the universities, including a joint faculty development initiative, a faculty mentorship program, common events and shared resources. In addition, the Alliance has a collaborative plan focusing on equity to examine, change, and align institutional policies and procedures in support of a welcoming and supportive academic climate for a diverse faculty. The Alliance will use formative and summative evaluations to document results and evaluate strengths and weaknesses of the model throughout the life of the project. The self-study of the FCPAM development and activities will advance knowledge concerning how socio-cultural, economic, structural, and institutional variables impact the development and success of the Alliance model and the institutional culture changes. An intersectional lens will be used to examine the impact of the FCPAM activities on the success of recruited faculty in relation to their identities, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, immigration status or national origin, abilities, and being a caregiver or a parent.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.