AGEP National Research Conference 2020: Sustaining, Institutionalizing and Scaling AGEP Alliance Models and Initiatives

AGEP国家研究会议2020是为了响应NSF的研究生教育联盟和AGEP计划征集(NSF 16-552)而设立的。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获奖者通过综合教育和社会科学研究，开发、实施和研究联盟模式，以改变博士教育的论文撰写阶段、博士后培训和/或教师晋升，以及STEM和STEM教育事业中历史上代表性不足的少数群体(URM)在途径层面内和之间的转变。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、留住和提拔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%。本次AGEP全国研究会议将促进对美国大学和学院可持续、制度化和规模化的举措的了解，以促进STEM和STEM教育学术专业的URM研究生、博士后学者和教职员工。这次会议的召开将汇集数百名AGEP和非AGEP获奖者以及正在进行相关研究的研究生。会议的目标是：(1)本次会议将传播、采用和调整AGEP联盟产生的研究成果、工具和计划资源；(2)与会者将有意识地在其机构背景下确定战略，将AGEP资助的项目定位为持续的影响和制度变革；(3)与会者将参与创新的会议形式，支持他们的学习，建立他们与AGEP联盟网络中的同事的联系，并创建一个他们可以在其机构采取未来行动的基础。为期两天半的会议定于2020年3月在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行。除了研究小组、主旨演讲和海报会议外，还将举行体验式学习会议，旨在增进关于AGEP联盟模式及其相关倡议的制度化、可持续性和可伸缩性的知识。拟议的工作包括评估部分和更广泛影响的传播计划。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 AGEP National Research Conference 2020 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 the successes of URM graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty in specific STEM disciplines and/or STEM education research fields. AGEP awardees develop, implement and study, via integrated educational and social science research, Alliance 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 historically underrepresented minorities (URMs) in STEM and STEM education careers. 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. This AGEP National Research Conference will advance knowledge about initiatives that can be sustained, institutionalized and scaled at US universities and colleges to advance URM graduate students, postdoctoral scholars and faculty in STEM and STEM education academic professions.This conference convening will bring together hundreds of AGEP and non-AGEP awardees, as well as graduate students who are conducting relevant research. The goals of the conference are: (1) This conference will disseminate, adopt and adapt research findings, tools, and program resources generated by AGEP Alliances; (2) Participants will intentionally identify strategies within their institutional context that will position AGEP-funded projects for sustained impact and institutional change; and (3) Participants will engage in an innovative conference format that supports their learning, builds their connections to colleagues across the AGEP Alliance network, and creates a foundation from which they can take future action at their institution.The two and half-day conference is scheduled for March of 2020, in Boston, MA. In addition to research panels, keynote addresses, and a poster session, there will be experiential learning sessions designed to advance knowledge about the institutionalization, sustainability and scaling of AGEP Alliance Models and their associated initiatives. The proposed work includes both evaluation components and a dissemination plan for broader impacts.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.