The AGEP 2024-2027 National Research Conference Series

“AGEP 2024-2027全国研究会议系列”是为响应美国国家科学基金会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族裔教员的数量。在AGEP计划的背景下，AGEP群体被定义为STEM博士后候选人、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、阿拉斯加土著、夏威夷土著和太平洋土著岛民。国家科学基金会AGEP计划寻求资助，以促进和加强支持公平和包容性的系统性因素，从而缓解STEM学术专业和工作场所的系统性不平等。随着国家解决STEM在高等教育方面的成就差距，我们的大学和学院努力招聘、留住和提拔STEM教师，他们是AGEP人群中的成员，是学生学习、合作和效仿的榜样和学术领袖。NSF的报告显示，STEM副教授和正教授是种族和民族成员，在所有四年制学院和大学中占据8%的高级教职职位，在美国研究最密集的机构中约占6%的教职职位。 这一系列会议将汇聚成百上千名获得AGEP奖的团队成员，以增进对学术STEM职业道路、体制和系统变革、交叉性和制度化等方面的知识和更广泛的影响。这些会议的目的是：1)庆祝AGEP方案获奖者，让项目团队相互交流和学习，庆祝他们的工作成果和影响，以增加STEM和STEM教育中历来代表性不足的少数族裔教师的数量；2)使AGEP获奖者团队聚集在对体制和系统变革、交叉性和机构化进行研究的专家中；以及3)支持AGEP获奖者团队和公众，提供在线会议网站、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。 四个年度会议中的每一个都将于2024年至2027年在华盛顿特区大都市区举行。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轨道会议(例如，转型联盟、FC-PAM、ACAS、ITA)、针对特定小组的会议(例如，评价员、参与者、主要绩效指标)，以及由国家科学基金会领导的关于获奖后管理和资助机会的会议。拟议工作包括评估项目工作成功与否的评价部分。传播计划将制作一个在线会议网站，提供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NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.