Measuring Graduate Student Retention and Progression

拟议的后续项目旨在加强国家科学基金会资助的研究生教育联盟和教授(AGEP)网络的能力，以评估在STEM领域招聘和保留代表性不足的非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和土著美国人的情况。AGEP网络由23个联盟组成，为大约80个机构提供服务。通过以前的工作，制定了一个初步框架和一些指标，以跟踪1996-97至2002-03年度各参与院校的招生人数偏低、留学生人数、学业进步和学位结业情况。这项新工作将把这一执行工作延长到以后几年，并将研究如何改进框架和更好地使各机构的指标标准化。这项工作的主要目标是在每个AGEP机构建立一种“评价文化”，这种文化将由一个跨机构的中央框架指导，并使各个机构能够适应其当地情况。

The proposed follow-on project seeks to strengthen the capacity of the NSF funded Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) network to evaluate recruitment and retention of underrepresented African American, Hispanics, and Native Americans in STEM fields. The AGEP network consisted of 23 alliances serving approximately 80 institutions. The previous work led to development of a preliminary framework and some indicators to track underrepresented student recruitment, retention, academic progress, and degree completion at the participating institutions on a longitudinal basis from 1996-97 through 2002-03. The new work would extend this implementation into subsequent years and would investigate ways to refine the framework and to standardize indicators better across institutions. The main goal of this work is to establish an "evaluation culture" at each AGEP institution that would be guided by a central framework across institutions and that the individual institutions could adapt to their local circumstances.