Baltimore Washington Alliance AGEP Planning Grant

霍华德大学、乔治城大学和摩根州立大学已经成立了巴尔的摩-华盛顿地区联盟(BWA)，并将开展该项目的规划活动。通过规划拨款，BWA打算评估目前研究生对教师职位的兴趣，并根据调查和其他评估数据加强现有的Howard-UTEP未来准备学院(PFF)和博士后学院(PDI)。智力上的功绩。由于日益全球化的经济对科学和技术的需求日益增长，美国比以往任何时候都更需要受过科学培训的公民。这种不断增长的需求与美国人口结构的重大变化不谋而合，在美国，在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科中历来代表性不足的少数族裔人口正在成为人口中越来越大的一部分。确保这些人口获得STEM的必要培训是一项重要的国家目标，而增加这些背景的STEM教授的数量是重要的一步-作为一个公平问题和一个政策问题。这个规划项目将借鉴研究文献中的发现，即为少数族裔STEM学生创建智力和社交社区的重要性，打破将他们与非正式的科学文化隔绝的障碍，并创造这些学生本来可能没有的职业网络机会。该规划项目还借鉴了国家科学基金--S研究生教育联盟和教授项目的研究成果，从有关该项目的研究中吸取教训，创建了一个更具凝聚力的高校联盟。在借鉴这项研究的过程中，该提案寻求使各个机构的努力保持一致，使它们变得不仅仅是各部分的总和。BWA将利用一个为少数族裔学生提供丰富职业发展机会的大都市区的资源，以及三所主要大学的资源，以解决基于研究结果的STEM少数族裔学生的需求。它将以最大限度地发挥国家AGEP方案支持下的项目的效力的方式做到这一点。这项计划拨款中的活动将影响两个国家的STEM研究生教育-S是非洲裔美国STEM博士的主要生产者，因此将对进入教授职位的非裔美国人产生显著的全国影响。此外，预期对现有的PFF和PDI进行的改进将增加BWA学生和来自联盟以外大学的学生的职业发展和联网机会。该项目还建立在一个由14所大学组成的现有联盟的基础上，并打算设计一个结构化的、基于互联网的、整个联盟范围的博士后机会和教师职位列表网络。该网络将建立一个接受STEM培训的少数民族的登记，该联盟的所有14所学校都可以从该登记中招聘新的教师和博士后。该项目还将改善学生水平的数据，包括他们教育生涯中的里程碑。

Howard University, Georgetown University, and Morgan State University have formed the Baltimore-Washington Area Alliance (BWA) and will undertake planning activities with this project. With the planning grant, BWA intends to assess current graduate student interest in faculty positions and to strengthen the existing Howard-UTEP Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) and Postdoc Institutes (PDI) informed by survey and other evaluation data. Intellectual Merit. Because of growing science and technology needs of an increasingly globalized economy, the United States is in greater need than ever before of a scientifically trained citizenry. This growing need coincides with significant demographic changes in the U.S., where minority populations that historically have been underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines are becoming an ever-larger share of the population. Ensuring that this population gains access to necessary training in STEM is an important national goal, and increasing the number of STEM professors from these backgrounds is an important step---as a matter of equity and as a matter of policy. This planning project will draw on findings from research literature about the importance of creating intellectual and social community for minority STEM students, breaking down barriers that isolate them from the informal culture of science, and creating professional networking opportunities that these students otherwise might not have. The planning project also draws on research that is specific to the National Science Foundation?s Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program, taking lessons learned from research about the program to create a more cohesive Alliance of colleges and universities. In drawing on this research, the proposal seeks to make the efforts of individual institutions coherent, allowing them to become more than the sum of their parts. BWA will leverage resources of a metropolitan area that is rich in professional development opportunities for minority students and the resources of 3 major universities in ways that address research-based findings about the needs of STEM minority students. It will do so in ways that maximize the efficacy of projects under the aegis of the national AGEP program.Broader Impact. The activities in this planning grant will influence STEM graduate education at two of the nation?s leading producers of African American STEM PhDs and will therefore have a noteworthy national effect on the pipeline of African Americans entering the professoriate. Additionally, the anticipated enhancement of the extant PFF and PDI will increase professional development and networking opportunities for BWA students and students from universities beyond the Alliance. The project also builds upon an existing consortium of 14 universities and includes the intention to design a structured, internet based, consortium-wide network of postdoc opportunities and faculty position listings. This network will create a registry of STEM trained minorities from which all 14 of the schools in the consortium can recruit new faculty and postdocs. This project will also improve the student level data including milestones in their educational careers.