Developing Professorial Leadership: A Pilot Partnership

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）于1998年发起了研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）计划，旨在解决国内代表性不足的人口（即非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民或其他太平洋岛民）在STEM学科（科学、技术、工程和数学）攻读博士学位的严重短缺问题。在过去的7年中，该计划已从1998年的几个联盟发展到2005年的22个全国AGEP联盟。行为科学高级研究中心（CASBS）将与研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）合作，以实现AGEP的目标，即在社会、行为和经济科学领域培养代表性不足的少数民族，使其成为学术界的教师领导。CASBS成立于1954年，与美国国家科学基金会（NSF）几乎同时成立，旨在推动行为科学领域的发展，并为社会服务。该中心有着悠久而杰出的历史，在跨学科的环境中，汇集了全国内外最优秀的学者，从而推动了领域的发展，并有一些服务社会的例子。AGEP-CASBS的合作伙伴关系将更有效地推动领域发展，改善制度，并通过吸引具有新思想的年轻少数民族教师学者，并支持他们发展成为未来的学术领袖，为社会服务。这一试点伙伴关系将确定并指导AGEP的年轻终身教职后教师作为CASBS 2008-2009学年的住宿研究员。这些奖学金将由NSF和CASBS共同资助。SBE AGEP领导的指导委员会将与CASBS主任和副主任合作实现目标。来自这笔赠款的资金还将帮助CASBS设计用于选择研究员的申请系统的首次使用评估。CASBS寻求一种在年龄、机构、性别，特别是种族方面使研究员更加多样化的过程。CASBS的目标是在未来四年改进这一过程。AGEP-CASBS伙伴关系将加强这一评估和由此产生的修改。

With the goal to address the severe national shortage in the number of domestic members of underrepresented populations (i.e., African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders) pursuing doctoral degrees in the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Program was initiated by the NSF in 1998. During the last 7 years, the program has grown from a few alliances in 1998 to 22 AGEP alliances nationwide in 2005. The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) will partner with the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) to especially address the AGEP goal of preparing underrepresented minorities in the fields of social, behavioral, and economic sciences for faculty leadership in academia. CASBS was established in 1954, around the same time as NSF, for the purpose of advancing the fields within the behavioral sciences (broadly construed) and being of service to society. This Center has a long and distinguished history of bringing together in an interdisciplinary setting, the very best scholars in the nation and beyond, and thereby advancing fields, with some examples of serving society. An AGEP-CASBS partnership will more effectively advance fields, improve institutions, and serve society by engaging younger minority faculty scholars with fresh ideas and supporting them to develop into future academic leaders. This pilot partnership will identify and mentor young post-tenure faculty from AGEP as residential Fellows at CASBS for the 2008-2009 academic year. These fellowships will be jointly funded by NSF and CASBS. A Steering Committee of SBE AGEP leadership would work with the CASBS Director and Deputy Director to accomplish the goals.Funds from this grant will also help CASBS design the assessment of first use of an application system for selecting Fellows. CASBS seeks a process that will yield more diversity among Fellows in terms of age, institution, gender, and especially ethnicity. CASBS aims to improve this process over the next four years. The AGEP-CASBS partnership will enhance this assessment and resulting modifications.