AGEP FC-PAM: The University of Texas System Alliance: An Inclusive Model of Mentoring, Sponsorship, and Systemic Change for Diversity in STEM Faculty Career Paths

AGEP教师职业道路联盟模型（FC-PAM）“德克萨斯大学系统联盟”（UT系统联盟）促进科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）高等教育的公平和包容。AGEP UT系统联盟的目标是开发、实施、自学和制度化德克萨斯大学系统AGEP职业路径模型，该模型提供(1)围绕招聘和雇用政策和程序的系统性变革，以及(2)为黑人和非裔美国人、拉丁裔和西班牙裔美国人、美洲原住民印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民STEM博士候选人的成功提供协作指导和赞助。德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校、奥斯汀分校、达拉斯分校、埃尔帕索分校和圣安东尼奥分校的博士后和初级教员。AGEP UT系统联盟为AGEP UT系统联盟的参与者提供包容性的指导和赞助，并围绕成功的工具，促进每个联盟机构的文化和政策变化，以创建一个支持专业发展的生态系统。联盟的活动正在解决不包容的做法，并为这些团体的成员在学术界的职业生涯中提升创造欢迎的空间。该联盟正在努力提高对种族、种族、性别、性取向、残疾、经济背景、第一代地位、教师角色和学科、家庭和社区角色等交叉身份的理解，因为交叉身份为博士候选人、博士后研究学者和早期职业教师的专业发展活动提供了信息。以及大学领导者的专业发展，作为系统性变革战略的一部分。AGEP UT系统联盟也采用早期职业教师招聘政策和实践的教师招聘最佳实践。改善公平和包容对于提高STEM教师的水平、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，美国国家科学基金会AGEP项目的资助旨在促进和加强支持公平和包容的系统性因素，从而减轻学术专业和工作场所的系统性不平等。FC-PAM奖励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中推进AGEP人口。FC-PAM合作者还研究了社会文化、经济、结构、领导和制度变量如何影响FC-PAM的形成，以及合作者为促进AGEP人口而实施的战略或干预措施。该联盟设有内部和外部咨询委员会，其成员定期审查AGEP UT系统联盟的进展并制定未来步骤的战略。一名内部评价员正在领导该项目的自我学习和形成性评估，以制定和实施有效的规划、机构整合和影响。外部评估人员使用基于理论的框架提供总结性评估，以评估AGEP UT系统联盟在招聘、支持和留住STEM博士候选人、博士后学者和初级教员方面的有效性；联盟创建的职业和学术途径；以及该项目对可持续性制度整合的影响。AGEP UT系统联盟团队正在通过同行评审和专业出版物、AGEP UT系统联盟网站以及在科学和专业会议上的演讲来传播AGEP FC-PAM模型和项目结果。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。

The AGEP Faculty Career Pathways Alliance Model (FC-PAM) “The University of Texas System Alliance” (UT System Alliance) promotes equity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) higher education. The goal of the AGEP UT System Alliance is to develop, implement, self-study, and institutionalize a University of Texas System AGEP career pathway model that provides (1) systemic change around policies and procedures for recruitment and hiring of, and (2) collaborative mentoring and sponsorship for the success of Black and African American, Latine and Hispanic American, Native American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Native Pacific Islander STEM doctoral candidates, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty members at the University of Texas campuses at Arlington, Austin, Dallas, El Paso, and San Antonio. The AGEP UT System Alliance provides inclusive mentoring and sponsorship for AGEP UT System Alliance participants around tools for success, and it promotes changes in culture and policy at each Alliance institution to create an ecosystem supportive of the professional development. Alliance activities are addressing non-inclusive practices and creating welcoming spaces for members of these groups as they ascend to careers in academia. The Alliance is working to improve the understanding of intersecting identities around ethnicity, race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, economic background, first generation status, faculty role and discipline, and family and community roles, as intersectional identities inform professional development activities for doctoral candidates, postdoctoral research scholars, and early career faculty members, as well as professional development for university leaders as part of systemic change strategies. The AGEP UT System Alliance is also adopting faculty hiring best practices for early career faculty hiring policies and practices. Improving equity and inclusion is critical to advancing STEM faculty members, 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. FC-PAM 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. FC-PAM collaborators also study how socio-cultural, economic, structural, leadership and institutional variables affect the formation of the FC-PAM, and the strategies or interventions the collaborators implement to advance AGEP populations. The Alliance has internal and external advisory boards with members who routinely review the AGEP UT System Alliance’s progress and strategize on future steps. An internal evaluator is leading the project’s self-study and formative assessment of the development and implementation of effective programming, institutional integration, and impacts. An external evaluator is providing summative assessment using a theory-based framework to assess the effectiveness of the AGEP UT System Alliance in recruiting, supporting, and retaining STEM doctoral candidates, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty members; the Alliance’s creation of career and academic pathways; and the project’s impact on institutional integration for sustainability. The AGEP UT System Alliance team is disseminating the AGEP FC-PAM Model and project results through peer-reviewed and professional publications, an AGEP UT System Alliance website, and presentations at scientific and professional meetings.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.