AGEP-- Rice-Houston ALLIANCE FOR GRADUATE EDUCATION AND THE PROFESSORIATE

莱斯大学、休斯顿大学、德克萨斯南方大学、休斯顿市中心大学、德克萨斯州立大学、休斯顿社区学院和圣哈辛托初级学院提出了一个令人兴奋的新联盟--莱斯-休斯顿研究生教育和教授联盟（莱斯-休斯顿AGEP）。 坐落在全国最大的，最具文化多样性的城市之一，拟议的赖斯-休斯顿AGEP联合了许多城市的研究和教学大学和社区学院的共同使命显着增加的人数不足的少数民族学生获得博士学位，并定位他们成为科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域的领导者。 拟议中的赖斯-休斯顿AGEP建立在两个非常成功的计划-赖斯AGEP和休斯顿路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（H-LSAMP）的基础上，并利用其优势，建立一个统一的，多层次的，长期的联盟，致力于这一事业。 为了完成其使命，赖斯-休斯顿AGEP确定了以下目标： 增加STEM专业的少数民族本科生保留率，以获得学士学位; 促进和激励更多少数民族STEM本科生攻读博士学位;增加少数族裔STEM研究生的入学率;增加少数族裔STEM研究生的博士保留率。 方案战略。 赖斯-休斯顿AGEP将通过在联盟机构建立一个强大的学者社区来实现其目标，为所有参与的学生创造独特的机会，包括来自社区学院和其他少数民族服务机构的学生，让他们接触到研究的兴奋和他们永远不会经历的教授生涯。 通过赖斯-休斯顿AGEP社区，学生将与同行和教授建立个人和专业关系，并享受一个支持性的网络，在那里他们受到欢迎，鼓励和支持，以追求博士学位，同时指导他人，因为他们实现自己的目标。 活动 在赖斯-休斯顿AGEP社区的主要活动包括每年：大学教师研讨会，综合本科生和研究生暑期研究和指导计划，学生研究/专业发展会议，广泛的学生/教师会议出席，以及多机构的国家和地方研究生招聘。 智力优势。 赖斯-休斯顿AGEP将测试其计划的几个新的或改编的组成部分。 它将检查密集和持续的教师研讨会对教师致力于促进干多样性的影响;它将评估一个大学范围内，教师主导的计划方向模式的有效性;它将评估更广泛的教师和机构文化的计划效果，它将评估多机构社群活动的影响，以鼓励和促进干研究生教育。 更广泛的影响。赖斯-休斯顿AGEP有可能影响数百名代表性不足的少数民族学生-鼓励，准备和留住他们，因为他们追求STEM博士学位。 赖斯-休斯顿AGEP将为本科生和研究生教育提供一个模式，有效地促进科学事业，并支持学生追求科学家的职业生涯。

Rice-Houston ALLIANCE FOR GRADUATE EDUCATION AND THE PROFESSORIATE (Rice-Houston AGEP) Project Summary Rice University, the University of Houston, Texas Southern University, the University of Houston-Downtown, Texas State University, Houston Community College, and San Jacinto Junior College, propose an exciting new alliance, the Rice-Houston Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (Rice-Houston AGEP). Situated in one of the nation's largest, most culturally diverse cities, the proposed Rice-Houston AGEP unites many of the city's research and teaching universities and community colleges in the common mission of significantly increasing the number of underrepresented minority students earning Ph.D.s and positioning them to become leaders in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The proposed Rice-Houston AGEP builds on and leverages the strengths of two highly successful programs - the Rice AGEP and the Houston Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (H-LSAMP) - to build a unified, multi-level, long-range alliance deeply committed to this cause. In order to accomplish its mission, the Rice-Houston AGEP has established the following goals: Increase minority undergraduate retention in STEM majors to the B.S.; Promote and motivate more minority STEM undergraduates to pursue the Ph.D.; Increase minority STEM graduate admissions; and Increase minority STEM graduate retention to the Ph.D. Program Strategies. The Rice-Houston AGEP will accomplish its goals by building a strong community of scholars across the Alliance institutions creating unique opportunities for all participating students including those from community colleges and other minority serving institutions, exposing them to the excitement of research and a career in the professoriate that they would never experience otherwise. Through the Rice-Houston AGEP community, students will develop personal and professional relationships with peers and professors and enjoy a supportive network where they are welcomed, encouraged, and supported to pursue Ph.D.s, while mentoring others as they attain their own goals. Activities. Main activities within the Rice-Houston AGEP community include yearly: university faculty workshops, integrated undergraduate and graduate summer research and mentoring programs, student research/professional development conferences, extensive student/faculty conference attendance, and multi-institutional national and local graduate student recruitment. Intellectual Merit. The Rice-Houston AGEP will test several new or adapted components of its program. It will examine the effects of intensive and sustained faculty workshops on faculty commitment to the promotion of STEM diversity; it will evaluate the effectiveness of a university-wide, faculty-led model of program direction; it will assess program effects on broader faculty and institutional culture, and it will assess the impact of multi-institutional community activities to encourage and promote STEM graduate education. Broader Impact. The Rice-Houston AGEP has the potential to impact hundreds of underrepresented minority students - encouraging, preparing, and retaining them as they pursue STEM Ph.D.s. The Rice-Houston AGEP will provide a model for undergraduate and graduate education that effectively promotes careers in science and sustains students as they pursue careers as scientists.