IGE: Innovations in Graduate Education- Identity, Structure and Belonging (IGE-ISB)

在科学、技术、工程和数学领域（STEM），弱势群体（URM）群体的发展仍然至关重要。在教育和职业管道的每个层次（例如学生、博士后、教师），代表性不足变得更加严重。在过去的二十年里，在学术排名的最高水平，博士后和教师水平，美国的职位数量大幅增加，为教授多样化提供了机会之窗。虽然URM博士学位获得者的数量有所增加，但URG在这些领域的教师职位份额仅略有增加，特别是在国家的研究型大学。如果研究型大学的多样性努力的一个重要焦点是让URG学者成为教授，那么这些学者需要做的不仅仅是完成他们的博士课程——他们必须在“黄金标准”方面脱颖而出，这是评判博士后和教职工作的潜在申请人的标准：他们的出版记录。在大多数四年制大学和几乎所有研究型大学中，候选人的论文发表记录是潜在就业的最重要标准，也是衡量在学术领域取得成功的标准，包括晋升到终身职位。这项授予加州大学伯克利分校的国家科学基金会研究生教育创新（IGE）奖将解决加州大学伯克利分校博士生在成果（包括发表记录）方面的差异，同时改善所有学生的研究生教育体验。身份、结构和归属（ISB）项目将解决持续存在的代表性不足的问题，而不是在个别教师或学生的看法、行动或互动层面，而是在研究生项目的组织结构层面。IGE-ISB将使用混合方法的研究方法，首先是对现有数据的综合，然后是广泛的定性数据收集（参与者驱动的半结构化访谈），严格的分析，制定描述研究生课程特征如何工作以创造公平的职业成果的“蓝图”；以及定量自我评估工具（李克特式问卷），院系和大学可以通过该工具评估其研究生课程设计。IGE-ISB将解决这个关键的研究问题：在博士课程的日常实践和日常工作方式中，为学生带来公平结果的潜在研究生课程结构是什么？院系如何改变其结构，以建立流程、程序和氛围，从而有效、公平地为博士教育带来的各种职业（包括学术职业）做好准备？在博士项目的关键阶段，院系建立清晰的期望和归属感以提高公平结果的具体方法是什么？IGE-ISB将制定研究生课程的蓝图，为学生带来公平的职业成果，这是一个务实的，适用于各个部门的，可以在全国范围内应用的蓝图。研究生教育创新（IGE）项目专注于研究生教育的研究。IGE的目标是试点、测试和验证研究生教育的创新方法，并产生将这些方法推广到更广泛的社区所需的知识。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Advancement of underrepresented minority (URM) groups continues to be of critical importance in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields (STEM). At each level of the educational and career pipeline (e.g. student, postdoctoral, faculty), underrepresentation becomes more severe. At the most advanced levels of the academic ranks, the postdoctoral and faculty levels, the number of positions in the US has increased substantially over the past two decades, providing a window of opportunity for diversification of the professoriate. While the number of URM PhD recipients has grown, the URG share of faculty positions in these fields has increased only modestly, particularly at the nation’s research universities. If one important focus of diversity efforts at research universities is to place URG scholars into the professoriate, these scholars need to do more than complete their Ph.D. programs – they must stand out in terms of the “gold standard” by which prospective applicants for postdoctoral and faculty jobs are judged: their publication record. A candidate’s publication record is the most important criterion for potential employment in most four-year and almost all research universities, and is a measure of success in the academy, including for promotions to tenure. This National Science Foundation Innovations of Graduate Education (IGE) award to the University of California, Berkeley, will address disparities in outcomes, including publication records, for URM doctoral students, while improving the graduate education experience for all students. The Identity, Structure and Belonging (ISB) project will tackle the persistent problem of underrepresentation not at the level of individual faculty or student perceptions, actions, or interactions, but rather, at the level of the organizational structure of graduate programs. IGE-ISB will use a mixed methods research approach that begins with synthesis of existing data, followed by extensive qualitative data collection (participant-driven semi-structured interviews), rigorous analysis, development of a “blueprint” describing how features of graduate programs work to create equitable career outcomes; and a quantitative self-assessment tool (a Likert-type questionnaire) by which departments and universities can assess their graduate program design. IGE-ISB will address this key research question: What are the underlying graduate program structures reflected in everyday practices and routine day-to-day ways of doing things in doctoral programs that produce equitable outcomes for their students? How might departments alter their structures to establish processes, procedures, and climate that are effective at preparing all, equitably, for the full array of careers that lead from a PhD education, including academic careers? What are the specific methods by which departments establish clarity of expectations and a sense of belonging at critical stages of the doctoral programs to enhance equitable outcomes? IGE-ISB will develop a blueprint of graduate program features that lead to equitable career outcomes for students, one that is pragmatic and applicable across departments, and that can be applied at a national scale. The Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) program is focused on research in graduate education. The goals of IGE are to pilot, test and validate innovative approaches to graduate education and to generate the knowledge required to move these approaches into the broader community.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.