The AGEP Alliance Model for Advancing the Faculty Careers of Underrepresented Minority STEM Doctoral Candidates who are Instructors at Historically Black Universities

该项目将开发、实施、研究和传播AGEP联盟模式，为非洲裔美国人和其他历史上代表性不足的少数民族STEM博士生提供教师专业发展和职业准备，他们也是历史上黑人学院和大学(HBCU)的讲师，以完成他们的博士学位并在早期职业生涯中晋升教师职位。弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学是一所专注于STEM的研究密集型大学，它将领导一个团队，包括向三所HBCU、摩根州立大学、弗吉尼亚州立大学和杰克逊州立大学以及另一所专注于STEM的研究密集型大学安布里·里德尔航空大学颁发子奖。该模式汇集了HBCU和研究型大学的教职员工，以招聘、培训和指导已经在HBCU担任讲师的博士生，以支持他们克服完成博士学位和继续深造的社会文化和职业障碍。该联盟是为了响应国家科学基金会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联盟开发、复制或复制、实施和研究联盟模式，通过教育和社会科学的综合研究，为STEM和/或STEM教育研究生涯中的URM开发、复制或复制、实施和研究联盟模式，以改变博士教育的论文阶段、博士后培训和/或教师晋升，以及路径级别内和跨路径的过渡。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、保留和提升URM STEM教师，他们充当学生学习、合作和效仿的榜样和学术领袖。美国国家科学基金会2015年的一份报告显示，只有40%的黑人/非裔美国博士生完成了STEM博士学位。2018年对在美国东南部地区HBCU工作的STEM教职员工进行的一项民意调查显示，在选定的STEM学科中，32%的教师没有终极学位。综合研究项目将通过检查机构环境、学生发展、支持关系以及留住和坚持，确定并阐明阻碍博士学位完成的潜在社会文化和职业障碍。推进URM教师的职业生涯最终会改善对STEM领域本科生和研究生的学术指导。项目进展和目标完成的评估将通过领导团队的自我学习和外部评估者的贡献来监督。联盟还将收到两个咨询委员会的意见。机构咨询委员会将侧重于该项目的机构一级工作，并制定将项目活动和成果纳入机构政策和程序的手段。外部咨询委员会将为加强项目活动和研究提供意见。这一奖项反映了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 project will develop, implement, study, and disseminate an AGEP Alliance model to provide faculty professional development and career preparation to African Americans and other historically underrepresented minority STEM doctoral candidates, who are also instructors at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), for completion of their PhD degree and progression in early career faculty positions. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, a STEM-focused research intensive university, will lead a team that includes subawards to three HBCUs, Morgan State University, Virginia State University, and Jackson State University, as well as another STEM-focused research intensive university, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. The model brings together faculty from HBCUs and research universities to recruit, train and mentor the doctoral candidates, already working as instructors at HBCUs, to support them in overcoming sociocultural and professional barriers to completing their PhDs and continue on in the professoriate. The 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 Alliances develop, replicate or reproduce, implement, and study, via integrated educational and social science research, Alliance Models to transform the dissertation phase of doctoral education, postdoctoral training and/or faculty advancement, and transitions within and across the pathway levels, for URMs in STEM and/or STEM education research 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 students to learn from, work with and emulate. An NSF report from 2015 determined that only 40% of Black/African American doctoral students were completing their STEM doctoral degrees. A 2018 poll of STEM faculty working at HBCUs in the southeast region of the United States revealed that 32% from selected STEM disciplines do not have terminal degrees. The integrated research project will identify and illuminate potential sociocultural and professional barriers to doctoral degree completion by examining institutional environments, student development, support relationships as well as retention and persistence. Advancing the careers of URM faculty ultimately leads to improved academic mentorship for undergraduate and graduate students in STEM fields.Evaluation of project progress and goal completion will be monitored through the leadership team self-study and with the contributions of an external evaluator. The Alliance will also receive input from two advisory boards. The Institutional Advisory Board will be focused on the institutional level work of the project and developing means for integrating the project activities and outcomes into institutional policies and procedures. The External Advisory Board will provide input for strengthening project activities and research.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.