NSF INCLUDES Alliance: Inclusive Graduate Education Network

包容性研究生教育网络(IGen)联盟是一个NSF包括联盟，由30多个社会、机构、组织、公司和国家实验室组成的伙伴关系，准备在未被充分代表的种族和少数族裔(UREM)学生获得物理科学博士学位方面引领范式转变。UREM学生在自然科学方面的参与度从来没有与他们在人口中的比例相匹配，而且UREM学生获得博士学位的比例远远低于相同群体获得学士学位的比例。这种差距尤其突出，因为这些学生构成了国内科学人才的一个重要的、不断增长的、基本上尚未开发的来源。为了消除这一差距，iGen联盟提出了一项创新战略，将包容性的、以证据为基础的做法制度化，以选择和培训一支多样化、创新和具有全球竞争力的科学队伍。IGen联盟的主要合作伙伴是美国物理学会、美国化学学会、美国地球物理联合会、美国天文学会和材料研究学会。这些学会在领导自然科学方面的努力方面处于独特的地位，这些努力使教职员工能够改革和改进他们的研究生教育实践。我们的合作伙伴共同代表着一系列来自学科协会的组织和个人，他们代表着UREM学生、主要的国家实验室、著名的行业和领先的社会科学研究人员，他们可以解决阻碍代表人数不足的学生成功获得博士学位的系统性问题-这些学位使他们能够推进科学并为美国提供技术创新。为了实现我们的参与和完成目标，我们的联盟是：1)通过每个学科的专业学会倡导的新的申请和全面审查程序，促进UREM研究生入学；2)通过宣传创造更具包容性的研究生教育环境的计划，保持这种增长；以及3)通过从本科生经历、研究生院、最终进入劳动力市场。集体定义的指标被用来确保计划组成部分支持联盟目标的进展。IGen主干组织正在建设基础设施、流程、通信和网络，以支持在研究生STEM教育中广泛采用有效的包容性实践。该联盟的研究和包容性实践中心支持在研究生教育研究和包容性研究生教育实践和专业发展方面的领导力发展。IGen联盟的每个组成部分在设计时都考虑到了两个原则：全国范围的影响和长期可持续性。在iGen开始其在物理科学方面的工作的同时，正在积极地通过与其他学科的对话来寻求扩展，包括工程、计算机科学、生物科学和数学。专业协会有独特的机会作为共同持有的价值观的倡导者、有效实践的集中来源以及能够维持长期倡议的组织来发挥领导作用。每个学会的领导层都致力于迎接这一挑战，并在战略上与NSF联盟的愿景保持一致，即在博士学位获得方面为代表不足的群体实现平等。这个NSF包括联盟是由数学和物理科学局的物理司共同资助的。该NSF包括联盟还由NSF的研究生教育联盟和教授(AGEP)计划资助，该计划旨在增加STEM学科中历史上代表性不足的少数族裔教师的数量。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。

The Inclusive Graduate Education Network (IGEN) Alliance is an NSF INCLUDES Alliance involving a partnership of over 30 societies, institutions, organizations, corporations, and national laboratories poised to lead a paradigm shift in the participation of underrepresented racial and ethnic minority (UREM) students attaining a PhD in the physical sciences. Participation by UREM students in the physical sciences has never matched their representation in the population and the fraction of doctoral degrees earned by UREM students is dramatically less than the fraction of bachelor degrees earned by the same groups. This disparity is specifically salient because these students constitute a significant, growing, and essentially untapped source of domestic scientific talent. To erase this gap, the IGEN Alliance proposes an innovative strategy to institutionalize inclusive, evidence-based practices for selecting and training a diverse, innovative, and globally competitive scientific workforce. The primary partners in the IGEN Alliance are the American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, American Geophysical Union, American Astronomical Society, and Materials Research Society. These societies are uniquely positioned to lead efforts in the physical sciences that empower faculty members to reform and improve their graduate education practices. Together, our partners represent a constellation of organizations and individuals from disciplinary societies representing UREM students, major national laboratories, prominent industries, and leading social science researchers, who can address systemic issues that inhibit success of underrepresented students in attaining doctoral degrees - degrees that enable them to advance science and provide technological innovations for the United States.To achieve our participation and completion goals, our Alliance is 1) catalyzing UREM graduate enrollment through new application and holistic review processes championed by the professional societies in each discipline, 2) sustaining such growth by propagating programs that create more inclusive graduate education environments, and 3) improving student mentoring through critical transitions from undergraduate experiences, graduate school, and finally into the workforce. Collectively defined metrics are being used to ensure program components are supporting progress towards the Alliance's goals. The IGEN backbone organization is building infrastructure, processes, communications, and networks that support the widespread adoption of effective inclusive practices in graduate STEM education. The Alliance's Research and Inclusive Practices Hubs support leadership development, both in graduate education research and inclusive graduate education practice and professional development. Each IGEN Alliance component is designed with two principles in mind: national-scale impact and long-term sustainability. While IGEN is beginning its work in the physical sciences, expansion is being actively pursued through dialog with other disciplines including engineering, computer science, biological sciences, and mathematics. Professional societies have the unique opportunity to lead as advocates for commonly held values, as centralized sources for effective practice, and as organizations that can sustain long-term initiatives. The leadership of each society is committed to this challenge and is strategically aligning to this NSF INCLUDES Alliance's vision of achieving equity for underrepresented groups in doctoral degree attainment. This NSF INCLUDES Alliance is co-funded by the Division of Physics in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate. This NSF INCLUDES Alliance is also funded by the NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program, which targets increasing the number of historically underrepresented minority faculty in STEM disciplines.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.