UC Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Phase II

加州大学研究生教育和教授联盟(UC AGEP)是唯一准备增加进入科学、技术、工程和数学教授(STEM)的代表不足的少数族裔(URM)学生数量的机构。在加州大学AGEP的第二阶段，这一计划的更广泛影响将是增加URM STEM学生获得博士学位的数量，并为教授学位做好最佳准备。它的学术价值在于它为招聘、留住和毕业URM STEM博士以及帮助博士后就业创造了新的模式。目前，加州大学系统培养了约10%的全国URM博士，包括生命科学、工程和计算机科学、物理科学和数学。在其AGEP计划的第一阶段，加州大学AGEP增加了URM新STEM注册的实数和占总注册的百分比。为了保持这一增长并增加URM在教授中的代表性，加州大学AGEP第二阶段将扩大其招聘和录取工作，同时解决从保留到博士后就业的关键未来组成部分。具体来说，加州大学AGEP II将实施一个六步计划，旨在：1.通过传播有关加州大学AGEP活动和本科生暑期充实机会的信息，增加URM STEM学生的数量并为研究生学习做准备。2.通过申请前活动、与少数族裔服务机构(如历史黑人学院和大学(HBCU))的合作伙伴关系、与加州州立大学的合作伙伴关系以及硕士学生暑期项目，增加申请加州大学校园并被考虑进入大学的URM学生的数量。3.通过以下途径增加城市管理学院的录取人数和选择接受录取的人数：1)有针对性地与招生委员会进行互动和协助；2)增加参观校园的机会；3)加强与被录取学生的交流；4)为新录取的学生提供暑期充实机会。4.通过创建社区网络、改善教师指导和加强学生，影响URM研究生的早期学术体验并提高他们的留存率。应对学术障碍的技能，如资格考试。5.通过提高专业和学术技能的项目支持继续深造的URM研究生，并为他们从事博士后工作和学术就业市场做好准备。6.创造新的模式，增加URM获得和参与博士后学者职位的机会，从而确保他们在学术职位上的竞争力。加州大学AGEP第二阶段预计项目成果将包括提高对加州大学STEM领域的URM认识，更好地准备申请者，增加申请和预科的URM人数(和百分比)，增加保留率，减少获得学位的时间，以及更好地获得博士后职位。因此，在接下来的五年里，加州大学AGEP II应该会导致从加州大学课程毕业并进入教授职位的URM博士人数显著增加。此外，通过最佳实践的比较，加州大学AGEP基础设施将促进多样性干预网络和模式的建设，这些网络和模式将在赠款期限结束后继续存在。

The UC Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (UC AGEP) is uniquely poised to increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) students who enter the professoriate in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). In Phase II of UC AGEP, the broader impact of this program will be to increase the number of URM STEM students earning PhDs and becoming optimally prepared for the professoriate. Its intellectual merit lies in its production of new model programs for recruiting, retaining, and graduating URM STEM PhDs and assisting with postdoctoral placements. The UC system currently produces approximately 10% of the nation.s URM PhDs in the Life Sciences, Engineering and Computer Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Mathematics. In Phase I of its AGEP program, UC AGEP increased URM new STEM enrollment both in real numbers and as a percent of total enrollment. To sustain this gain and increase representation of URMs in the professoriate, UC AGEP Phase II will expand its recruitment and admission efforts while addressing key later components from retention through postdoctoral placements. Specifically, UC AGEP II will implement a six-step program designed to: 1. Increase the number of URM STEM students aware of and prepared for graduate study through dissemination of information about UC AGEP activities and summer enrichment opportunities for undergraduates. 2. Increase the number of URM students who apply to UC campuses and who are considered for admission to the University through pre-application events, partnerships with minority serving institutions (MSIs) such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), partnerships with California State Universities and summer programs for masters students. 3. Increase both the number of URM students who are admitted, and the number who choose to accept offers through: 1) targeting interactions and assistance to admission committees; 2) increasing opportunities for campus visits; 3) increasing communication with admitted students; and 4) providing summer enrichment opportunities for newly admitted students. 4. Impact the early academic experience of URM graduate students and improve their retention by creating community networks, improving faculty mentoring, and enhancing students. skills for coping with academic hurdles such as the qualifying exam. 5. Support continuing URM graduate students through programs that improve their professional and academic skills, and prepare them for postdoctoral positions and the academic job market. 6. Create new models for increasing URM access to and participation in postdoctoral scholar positions, thereby ensuring their competitiveness for academic positions. UC AGEP Phase II expects project outcomes to include increased URM awareness of UC STEM fields, better preparation of applicants, increased URM numbers (and percentages) for application and matriculation, increased retention, a decreased time to degree, and better access to postdoctoral positions. Thus, over the next five years, UC AGEP II should result in a significant increase in URM PhDs who graduate from UC programs and enter the professoriate. Also, by comparison of best practices, the UC AGEP infrastructure will foster the building of networks and models for diversity interventions that will persist after the grant period ends.