Collaborative Research: The AGEP Historically Black Universities Alliance: A Model to Advance Early Career Minority Faculty in the STEM Professoriate

该联盟将三所历史悠久的黑人大学(HBUS)聚集在一起，目标是开发、实施、研究、评估和传播一种模式，专注于HBUS历史上代表性不足的少数族裔(URM)早期职业STEM教师的职业发展，这些教师将成为终身教职和晋升教师。AGEP HBUS联盟与撰写和向外部资金来源提交研究补助金的教师合作；参与美国能源部国家实验室的客座教师职位；与全国各地经验丰富的STEM教师导师合作；以及参与模拟终身教职前审查过程。虽然模式工作是通过塔斯基吉大学、奥克兰大学、杰克逊州立大学和田纳西州立大学之间的合作伙伴关系进行的，但该项目正在创建一个将适用于其他历史上的黑人学院和大学的模式。该联盟是为了响应NSF的研究生教育联盟和教授(AGEP)计划征集(NSF 16-552)而创建的。AGEP计划致力于增进有关模式的知识，以改善URM研究生、博士后研究员和教师在特定STEM学科和/或STEM教育研究领域获得教授和成功的途径。AGEP转型联盟开发、复制或复制；通过综合教育和社会科学研究，实施和研究模式，以改变STEM和/或STEM教育研究职业中的博士教育、博士后培训和/或教师晋升的博士论文阶段、博士后培训和/或教师晋升，以及路径层次内和跨路径层次的过渡。该联盟还由NSF的历史黑人学院和大学本科项目(HBCU-UP)资助。该联盟的研究组成部分之一是该团队调查URM早期职业教师对他们如何适应自己职位的看法，因为机构变量和初级教师对其机构的看法之间存在交互作用。AGEP HBUS联盟团队将与TMT Group，Inc.的外部顾问合作，进行形成性和终结性评估。他们还将聘请一个由机构行政人员和领导人组成的执行委员会，以及一个外部咨询委员会。董事会将向联盟团队提供反馈，并建议对项目的管理、研究以及模型开发、实施、测试、评估、传播、可持续性和复制潜力进行调整。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Alliance brings together three Historically Black Universities (HBUs) with the goal of developing, implementing, studying, evaluating and disseminating a model focusing on career development for historically underrepresented minority (URM) early career STEM faculty at HBUs, who will become tenured and promoted faculty. The AGEP HBUs Alliance works with faculty who are writing and submitting research grants to external funding sources; engaging in visiting faculty positions at US Department of Energy National Laboratories; working with experienced STEM faculty mentors across the country; and participating in mock pre-tenure review processes. While the model work is through partnerships between Tuskegee University, Oakland University, Jackson State University, and Tennessee State University, the project is creating a model that will be applicable to other Historically Black Colleges and Universities.This alliance was created in response to the NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program solicitation (NSF 16-552). The AGEP program seeks to advance knowledge about models to improve pathways to the professoriate and success of URM graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty in specific STEM disciplines and/or STEM education research fields. AGEP Transformation Alliances develop, replicate or reproduce; implement and study, via integrated educational and social science research, models to transform the dissertator phase of doctoral education, postdoctoral training and/or faculty advancement, and the transitions within and across the pathway levels, of URMs in STEM and/or STEM education research careers. This Alliance is also funded by the NSF's Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP).One of the research components of the Alliance is the team's investigation of URM early career faculty's perceptions of how they fit in their positions because of the interaction between institutional variables and the junior faculty's perceptions of their institutions. The AGEP HBUs Alliance team will work with external consultants at TMT Group, Inc., to conduct formative and summative evaluations. They will also engage an Executive Board of institutional administrators and leaders, as well as an external Advisory Board. The boards will provide feedback to the Alliance team and suggest adjustments to the project's management, to the research, and to the model development, implementation, testing, evaluation, dissemination, sustainability and reproduction potential.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.