The AGEP 2024-2027 National Research Conference Series

“AGEP 2024-2027国家研究会议系列”是应美国国家科学基金会研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）项目邀请（NSF 21-576）而创建的。AGEP项目的目标是增加STEM中历史上代表性不足的少数族裔教师的数量。“历史上代表性不足的少数民族”一词的使用反映了国会的语言，在AGEP计划的背景下，AGEP人口被定义为STEM博士候选人、博士后学者和教职员工，他们是黑人和非裔美国人、西班牙裔和拉丁裔美国人、美国印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。NSF AGEP计划旨在资助资助，以促进和增强支持公平和包容的系统性因素，从而减轻STEM学术专业和工作场所的系统性不平等。随着国家解决STEM在高等教育中的成就差距，我们的大学和学院努力招聘、留住和提升STEM教师，这些教师是AGEP人口的成员，他们是学生学习、合作和模仿的榜样和学术领袖。美国国家科学基金会的报告显示，在所有四年制学院和大学中，来自种族和族裔的STEM副教授和正教授占据了8%的高级教员职位，在美国最具研究密集型的机构中，这一比例约为6%。这次AGEP全国研究会议系列将推进有关倡议的知识，这些倡议可以制度化，持续和加强，以增加STEM中历史上代表性不足的少数民族教师的数量。 该系列会议将汇集数百名AGEP获奖团队成员，以促进学术STEM职业道路，制度和系统变化，交叉性和制度化的知识和更广泛的影响。会议的目标是：1)通过将项目团队聚集在一起，相互分享和学习，庆祝AGEP计划获奖者，并庆祝他们的工作成果和影响，以增加STEM和STEM教育中历史上代表性不足的少数族裔教师的数量；2)将AGEP获奖团队与了解并研究制度和系统变化、交叉性和制度化的专家联合起来；3)支持AGEP获奖团队和公众，提供在线会议网站、年度会议资料和会议论文集，以及年度会议论文集的印刷出版物。 四届年会将于2024-2027日历年在华盛顿特区都会区举行。所有会议将包括全体会议和主题会议，研究报告，海报会议，分组会议，agep内部跟踪会议（例如，转型联盟，FC-PAMs, ACAs, ita），特定小组会议（例如，评估者，参与者，首席pi），以及nsf主导的关于奖后管理和资助机会的会议。建议的工作包括评价部分，以评价项目工作的成功。传播计划将制作一个在线会议网站，其中载有年度会议材料和会议记录，以及印刷的年度会议记录出版物。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 2024-2027 National Research Conference Series” was created in response to the NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program solicitation (NSF 21-576). The goal of the AGEP program is to increase the number of historically underrepresented minority faculty in STEM. The use of the term "historically underrepresented minority" reflects language from Congress, and in the context of the AGEP program, the AGEP populations are defined as STEM doctoral candidates, postdoctoral scholars, and faculty, who are Blacks and African Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. The NSF AGEP program seeks to fund grants that advance and enhance the systemic factors that support equity and inclusion and, consequently, mitigate the systemic inequities in the STEM academic profession and workplace. As the nation addresses STEM achievement gaps in postsecondary education, our universities and colleges struggle to recruit, retain, and promote STEM faculty who are members of AGEP populations and who serve as role models and academic leaders for students to learn from, work with and emulate. NSF reporting indicates that STEM associate and full professors, who are members of racial and ethnic groups, occupy 8% of senior faculty positions at all 4-year colleges and universities, and about 6% of faculty positions at the nation's most research-intensive institutions. This AGEP National Research Conference series will advance knowledge about initiatives that can be institutionalized, sustained, and strengthened to increase the number of historically underrepresented minority faculty in STEM.  This conference series will bring together hundreds of AGEP awardee team members to advance knowledge and broader impacts about academic STEM career pathways, institutional and systemic change, intersectionality, and institutionalization. The objectives of the conferences are: 1) To celebrate the AGEP program awardees by bringing together project teams to share and learn from each other and celebrate the outcomes and impacts of their work to increase the number of historically underrepresented minority faculty in STEM and STEM Education; 2) To bring together AGEP awardee teams with experts who are knowledgeable about, and who research institutional and systemic change, intersectionality, and institutionalization; and 3) To support the AGEP awardee teams and the public by providing an online conference website, with annual conference materials and proceedings, as well as a printed annual proceedings publication.   Each of the four annual conferences will be held in the Washington, DC metro area in calendar years 2024-2027. All conferences will include plenary and keynote sessions, research presentations, poster sessions, break-out sessions, within-AGEP track sessions (e.g., Transformation Alliances, FC-PAMs, ACAs, ITAs), sessions for specific subgroups (e.g., evaluators, participants, lead PIs), and NSF-led sessions about post-award management and funding opportunities. The proposed work includes evaluation components to assess the success of the project work. The dissemination plan will produce an online conference website, with annual conference materials and proceedings, as well as a printed annual proceedings publication.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.