Collaborative Research: An AGEP Alliance Model to Advance Underrepresented Minority STEM Faculty at Predominately Undergraduate Institutions

该联盟将三所大学联合在一起，目标是开发、实施、研究、制度化、评估和传播一种模式，专注于在STEM中历史上代表性不足的少数民族(URM)博士学位学生的职业发展，这些学生成功地过渡到以本科为主的机构(PUI)的早期STEM教师职位，或者进入博士后STEM学者职位，然后过渡到PUI的早期职业STEM教师职位。AGEP Pui联盟与URM博士学位学生、博士后学者和早期职业教师合作，为他们提供指导、专业发展培训和在学术教师职位上取得成功所需的教学技能。AGEP联盟的工作模式是通过石溪大学-纽约州立大学(SUNY)、萨福克县社区学院-SUNY和法明戴尔州立学院-SUNY之间的合作伙伴关系建立的。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。虽然该联盟主要由AGEP计划资助，但NSF Includes计划也提供了额外的支持，该计划侧重于催化STEM企业协作努力实现包容性变革。随着国家解决URM与非URM本科生和研究生之间的STEM成就差距，我们的大学和学院努力招聘、留住和提升URM STEM教师，他们是URM学生学习、合作和效仿的榜样和学术领袖。NSF最近的报告显示，URM STEM副教授和正教授在所有四年制学院和大学中占据了8%的高级教职职位，在美国研究最密集的机构中约占6%。AGEP Pui联盟有可能推动一种模式，以提高URM早期职业STEM教师在PUI中的成功，最终导致社区大学、两年制学术机构和其他PUI中URM本科生的学术指导得到改善。该联盟的一个研究组成部分调查了自我心态信念与对他人心态的看法在论述学生的成功和参与方面的作用；评估导师心态与被导师心态在关系质量和被导师参与结果上的具体作用；AGEP Pui联盟将与纽约市立大学研究生中心教育高级研究中心的一个评估团队合作，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。董事会将向联盟小组提供反馈，并建议对项目的管理、研究以及模型的开发、执行、测试、评估、传播、可持续性和复制潜力进行调整。董事会还将提供关于联盟工作如何影响机构政策和实践的意见，以促进URM早期职业教师在PUIS的学术STEM职业生涯。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 universities with the goal of developing, implementing, studying, institutionalizing, evaluating and disseminating a model focusing on career development for historically underrepresented minority (URM) doctoral degree students in STEM, who successfully transition into early career STEM faculty positions at predominately undergraduate institutions (PUIs), or who enter postdoctoral STEM scholar positions and then transition into early career STEM faculty positions at PUIs. The AGEP PUI Alliance works with URM doctoral degree students, postdoctoral scholars and early career faculty to provide them with mentoring, professional development training, and the teaching pedagogy skills necessary to succeed in academic faculty positions. The AGEP Alliance model work is through partnerships between Stony Brook University - The State University of New York (SUNY), Suffolk County Community College - SUNY, and Farmingdale State College - SUNY.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. While this Alliance is primarily funded by the AGEP program, additional support has been provided by the NSF INCLUDES program, which focuses on catalyzing the STEM enterprise to collaboratively work for inclusive change.As the nation addresses a STEM achievement gap between URM and non-URM undergraduate and graduate students, our universities and colleges struggle to recruit, retain and promote URM STEM faculty who serve as role models and academic leaders for URM students to learn from, work with and emulate. Recent NSF reports indicate that URM STEM associate and full professors occupy 8% of these senior faculty positions at all 4-year colleges and universities, and about 6% of these positions at the nation's most research-intensive institutions. The AGEP PUI Alliance has the potential to advance a model to improve the success of URM early career STEM faculty in PUIs, which ultimately leads to improved academic mentorship for URM undergraduate students in STEM at community colleges, two-year academic institutions, and other PUIs.One of the research components of the Alliance investigates the role of self-mindset beliefs versus perceptions of others' mindset on dissertating students' success and engagement; assesses the specific role of mentor mindset versus mentee mindset on relationship quality and mentee engagement outcomes; and explores change over time in psychosocial engagement among doctoral students through their work on dissertation development and completion.The AGEP PUI Alliance will work with an assessment team at the Center for Advanced Study of Education, at the City University of New York's Graduate Center, 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. The boards will also provide input about how the Alliance work impacts institutional policies and practices to advance URM early career faculty in their academic STEM careers at PUIs.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.