Collaborative Research: AGEP ACA: An HSI R2 Strategic Collaboration to Improve Advancement of Hispanic Students Into the Professoriate

NSF AGEP催化剂联盟项目解决了一个重要问题，即如何推进这一角色，并增加STEM教员职位中传统上代表性不足的群体的成员。该项目的重点是在排名博士生大学所扮演的角色往往被忽视的背景下探索此类挑战--高研究活动(R2)，具有强大的研究计划并拥有少数人服务地位。这个NSF AGEP催化剂联盟团队由德克萨斯农工大学科珀斯克里斯蒂分校(TAMU-CC)和新墨西哥州州立大学(NMSU)这两所R2机构的研究人员和领导者组成，利用他们在促进多样性方面的专业知识，扩展关于STEM领域博士生和早期职业教师面临的共同和具体挑战的知识，并建立最佳实践来催化公平和包容性的机构变革。这个为期两年的项目的具体目标是找出这些机构中阻碍教师从传统上代表不足的群体获得晋升和成功的不平等现象，并建立一个战略联盟，旨在增加STEM学科中拉美裔和美洲原住民教师的数量。这将通过一系列协调努力来实现，包括机构领导层的参与、收集和分析当前和历史数据以及制定和部署试点股权战略。该项目最终将制定一项全面的5年股权战略计划，以指导一个强大的联盟基础努力实现集体影响。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。

This NSF AGEP Catalyst Alliance project addresses the important question of how to advance the role and increase the presence of members of traditionally underrepresented groups in STEM faculty positions. The particular focus of this project is to explore such challenges in the context of the often overlooked role played by institutions ranked Doctoral Universities – High research activity (R2) with strong research programs and holding a minority-serving status. Composed of researchers and leaders from two Hispanic Serving R2 Institutions: Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi (TAMU-CC) and New Mexico State University (NMSU), this NSF AGEP Catalyst Alliance team is using their expertise in promoting diversity to expand knowledge about the shared and specific challenges facing doctoral students and early career faculty in STEM field and building best practices to catalyze equitable and inclusive institutional transformation.The specific goals of the 2-year project are to identify the inequities in these institutions that prevent the advancement and success of faculty members from traditionally underrepresented groups and to establish a strategic alliance aimed at increasing the number of Hispanic and Native American faculty in STEM disciplines. This will be accomplished through a collection of coordinated efforts, inclusive of engagement of institutional leadership, collection and analysis of present and historical data, and development and deployment of pilot equity strategies. The project will culminate with the development of a comprehensive 5-year equity strategic plan to guide the foundation of a strong alliance working towards collective impact.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.