NEAGEP Summative Evaluation: Identifying Effective Strategies for Paving the Pathway to the Professoriate

东北研究生教育和教授联盟（NEAGEP）是一个高度互动的研究机构和少数民族服务机构，包括私立和公立，以及大小学校。通过新战略的试点和分享，该联盟为东北地区科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）博士项目的多样化做出了巨大贡献。从这些机构获得STEM博士学位的URM学生人数几乎翻了一番。不幸的是，既没有足够的学生数量，也没有足够的资金来有意义地评估招聘和留住URM STEM博士生的最有效策略。与NSF AGEP计划的目标更为相关的是，目前还没有评估哪些因素会影响URM STEM博士的职业选择，以及哪些因素能确保他们在学术界取得成功。为了解决这些问题，PI小组将与TERC（一个STEM教育组织）的外部评估人员合作，进行neagep范围内的总结性评估。评估人员将对NEAGEP机构的在职STEM博士生和博士毕业生进行个人访谈，并征求所有NEAGEP协调员的意见，以制定两个在线调查。一项调查将对大约565名在NEAGEP 10年期间获得STEM博士学位的URM进行调查，另一项调查将对550多名目前URM STEM博士生进行调查。研究结果将对NEAGEP下一阶段制定新方案具有重要意义。智力优势：现在有足够多的学生处于他们职业生涯的不同阶段，因此外部团队可以对NEAGEP项目进行非常丰富的大规模评估。该团队将客观地评估哪些类型的活动最有效地使STEM教授多样化。重点将放在招聘和留用活动上，但更重要的是，哪些活动会影响这些学生在学术界从事职业。这一评估将为增加教授的多样性提供重要的新见解，这是一个必须实现的目标，以便让更广泛的美国公民参与STEM。更广泛的影响：研究结果将产生信息，为设计和修订项目提供信息，以招收URM本科生进入STEM研究生项目。此外，这些数据还将促进项目的制度化，从而增加URM和非URM美国学生对STEM的参与。最后，将公布评价结果，以便其他机构和联盟能够保存和（或）更好地指导资源，了解在构成新伙伴关系的大小以及公立和私立大学中哪些可行，哪些不可行。研究与教与学的整合：NEAGEP的许多策略都涉及研究与教与学的整合。通过正式评价这些战略的影响，将确定哪些是最有效的。然后，将扩大有效的战略，将整个新战略计划的研究和教学倡议结合起来，并通过新战略计划网络进行宣传。

The Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NEAGEP) is a highly interactive group of Research I and minority-serving institutions that includes private and public, as well as large and small schools. By piloting and sharing novel strategies, the Alliance has made a large contribution to diversifying science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) Ph.D. programs in the Northeast. The number of URM students earning STEM doctorates from these institutions has nearly doubled. Unfortunately, there has been neither sufficient numbers of students nor funds to meaningfully evaluate what strategies are most effective for recruiting and retaining URM STEM doctoral students. Even more relevant to the goal of the NSF AGEP program, there has been no assessment of what factors influence career choices of URM STEM Ph.D.s and what factors ensure their success in academia. To address these issues, the PI group will work with external evaluators at TERC, a STEM education organization, to conduct a NEAGEP-wide summative evaluation. The evaluators will conduct personal interviews with current STEM doctoral students and Ph.D. graduates of NEAGEP institutions, and also solicit input from all NEAGEP coordinators to develop two on-line surveys. One survey will be administered to approximately 565 URMs who obtained STEM Ph.D. degrees during the 10 years of NEAGEP, and the other to the over 550 current URM STEM doctoral students. The results will be important for developing new programs in the next phase of NEAGEP. Intellectual Merit: There is now a sufficiently large population of students at different points in their careers so that an external team can conduct a very informative, large-scale evaluation of NEAGEP programs. The team will objectively assess what types of activities are most effective at diversifying the STEM professoriate. The focus will be on recruitment and retention activities, but, more importantly, on what activities influence these students to pursue careers in academia. This evaluation will provide new insights important for increasing diversity in the professoriate, a goal that must be achieved in order to engage a broader portion of the U.S. citizenry in STEM. Broader Impacts: The results will generate information that will inform the design and revision of programs to recruit URM undergraduates into STEM graduate programs. In addition, these data will also promote institutionalization of programs that increase participation of both URM and non-URM U.S. students in STEM. Finally, the evaluation findings will be published so that other institutions and alliances can conserve and/or better direct resources by learning what does and does not work in large and small, as well as public and private, universities that comprise NEAGEP. Integration of Research with Teaching and Learning: Many of the NEAGEP strategies involve integration of research with teaching and learning. By formally evaluating the impact of these strategies, it will be determined which are most effective. The effective strategies will then be expanded to integrate research and teaching initiatives across NEAGEP and publicized through the AGEP network.