The AGEP 2024-2027 National Research Conference Series

“AGEP 2024-2027国家研究会议系列”是为了响应NSF的研究生教育联盟和教授（AGEP）计划征集（NSF 21-576）而创建的。AGEP计划的目标是增加STEM中历史上代表性不足的少数民族教师的数量。“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，博士后学者和教师，他们是黑人和非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔和拉丁裔美国人，美洲印第安人，阿拉斯加原住民，夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民。NSF AGEP计划旨在为促进和增强支持公平和包容的系统性因素提供赠款，从而减轻STEM学术专业和工作场所的系统性不平等。随着国家解决中学后教育中的STEM成就差距，我们的大学和学院努力招聘，留住和推广STEM教师，他们是AGEP人口的成员，并作为学生学习的榜样和学术领袖，与他们合作和效仿。NSF的报告显示，STEM副教授和正教授，谁是种族和族裔群体的成员，占据了所有4年制学院和大学的高级教师职位的8%，并在全国最研究密集型机构的教师职位约6%。这AGEP国家研究会议系列将推进有关可以制度化的举措的知识，持续，和加强，以增加在STEM历史上代表性不足的少数民族教师的数量.这个会议系列将汇集数百名AGEP获奖团队成员，以推进知识和学术STEM职业道路的更广泛的影响，制度和系统的变化，交叉性，和制度化.会议的目标是：1）通过汇集项目团队来庆祝AGEP计划获奖者，以分享和相互学习，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民族教师的数量; 2）将AGEP获奖者团队与了解并研究机构和系统变革、交叉性的专家聚集在一起，3）通过提供一个在线会议网站，提供年度会议材料和会议记录，以及年度会议记录印刷出版物，支持AGEP获奖者团队和公众。 四个年度会议将于2024-2027日历年在华盛顿大都会区举行。所有会议将包括全体会议和主旨会议、研究报告、海报会议、分组会议、AGEP内部会议（例如，转型联盟、FC-PAM、ACA、ITA）、针对特定子组的会话（例如，评估人员、参与者、主要PI），以及NSF领导的关于奖后管理和资助机会的会议。拟议的工作包括评估项目工作成功与否的评价部分。传播计划将建立一个在线会议网站，提供年度会议材料和会议记录，以及年度会议记录印刷出版物。该奖项反映了NSF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.