AGEP-KAT: Adopting Evidence Based Strategies to Improve Academic Climate and the Success of Underrepresented Doctoral Students in Engineering

该项目由研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）计划支持，是知识采用和翻译（AGEP- kat）奖。AGEP项目资助KAT项目，以扩大对研究成果的采用和/或适应，以及与未被充分代表的少数民族（urm）在所有类型的高等教育机构中参与和成功的STEM研究生教育、博士后培训和学术STEM职业相关的循证战略和实践。该奖项资助匹兹堡大学斯旺森工程学院的活动，以采用和调整马里兰大学巴尔的摩县（UMBC）迈耶霍夫学者计划和美国国家科学基金会资助的PROMISE AGEP马里兰项目所采用的策略和实践。这个KAT项目旨在改善匹兹堡大学美国公民学生进入匹兹堡大学博士工程项目的过渡，并通过采用以证据为基础的学生和教师参与策略，确保他们成功完成，并为匹兹堡大学博士生营造一个包容的学术氛围。采用和适应过程的成功将直接使一群美国公民受益，他们是URM主修工程领域的博士生。KAT的结果还将告知全国的工程研究生项目如何适应有效的策略，以促进教师参与，改善学术气候变化，并确保URM博士生的成功。项目团队将在实现项目目标的过程中探索以下教师特定目标：提高教师与学生的互动程度，提高他们对学生遇到的障碍和问题的认识，并就URM工程学院研究生的成功建立共同的愿景。以学生为中心的目标包括：适应和实施正在采用的循证战略，提高专业和教育技能，增加保留和毕业于工程博士课程的学生人数。该团队将咨询UMBC和宾夕法尼亚州立大学的行政领导，作为项目评估过程的一部分，他们将提供关于教师和学生策略的采用、适应、实施和评估的反馈。预计产品将包括在同行评审期刊上发表的文章。

This project is supported by the Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program and is a Knowledge Adoption and Translation (AGEP-KAT) award. The AGEP program funds KAT projects to expand the adoption and/or adaptation of research findings and evidence-based strategies and practices related to the participation and success of underrepresented minorities (URMs) in STEM graduate education, postdoctoral training, and academic STEM careers at all types of institutions of higher education. This award funds activities at the University of Pittsburgh's Swanson School of Engineering to adopt and adapt strategies and practices employed by the University of Maryland Baltimore County's (UMBC) Meyerhoff Scholars Program and the NSF-funded PROMISE AGEP Maryland project. This KAT project is designed to improve the transitions of URM students, who are US citizens, into doctoral engineering programs at the University of Pittsburgh and to ensure their successful completion by employing evidence-based strategies for student and faculty engagement and fostering an inclusive academic climate for URM doctoral students. The success of the adoption and adaption process will directly benefit a cohort of US citizens who are URM doctoral students majoring in engineering fields. Results from this KAT will also inform engineering graduate programs across the nation about how to adapt effective strategies for faculty engagement, for improving academic climate change, and for ensuring URM doctoral student success.The project team will explore the following faculty-specific objectives as they work to address the project goal: Improving faculty engagement with students, advancing their awareness of the barriers and problems the student experience, and developing a shared vision regarding the success of URM graduate students within the school of engineering. Student-focused objectives include: Adapting and implementing the evidence-based strategies being adopted, enhancing professional and educational skills, and increasing the number of students who are retained and graduated in engineering doctoral programs. The team will consult with administrative leaders from UMBC and The Pennsylvania State University who, as part of the project's evaluation process, will provide feedback regarding the adoption, adaption, implementation and assessment of the faculty and student strategies. Products are expected to include publications in peer-reviewed journals.