AGEP 2022 National Research Conference

AGEP国家研究会议2022是为了响应美国国家科学基金会研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）项目招标（NSF 16-552）而创建的。AGEP项目的目标是增加STEM中历史上代表性不足的少数族裔教师的数量。“历史上代表性不足的少数民族”一词的使用反映了国会的语言，在AGEP计划的背景下，AGEP人口被定义为STEM博士候选人、博士后学者和教职员工，他们是非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。AGEP项目旨在推进有关模型的知识，以改善通往教授的途径，并为研究生、博士后研究员和教职员工的成功提供帮助，这些人是STEM中代表性不足的种族和族裔群体的成员。AGEP获奖者开发、实施、研究、评估和传播AGEP联盟模型，以改变博士教育、博士后培训和/或教师晋升的论文阶段，以及内部和跨路径水平的过渡。随着国家解决STEM在高等教育中的成就差距，我们的大学和学院努力招聘、留住和提升STEM教师，这些教师是AGEP人口的成员，他们是学生学习、合作和模仿的榜样和学术领袖。美国国家科学基金会（NSF）最近的报告显示，在所有四年制学院和大学中，STEM副教授和正教授占据了8%的高级教员职位，在美国最具研究密集型的机构中，这一比例约为6%。这次AGEP全国研究会议将推进有关倡议的知识，这些倡议可以制度化、持续和加强，以增加STEM中历史上代表性不足的少数族裔教师的数量。这次会议将汇集数百名AGEP和非AGEP获奖者，以促进对学术STEM职业道路的认识和更广泛的影响。会议的目标是：1)为AGEP联盟提供一个获取知识和分享最佳实践的场所，以加强、制度化、扩大和维持他们的联盟，并交流项目成果；2)为AGEP联盟团队提供一个场所，分享与项目参与者互动和支持项目参与者的最佳实践和方法；3)为NSF提供一个平台，收集AGEP获奖者的利益相关方的意见，并与获奖者分享新的资助机会、政策变化和项目更新。为期两天半的会议定于2022年11月在德克萨斯州科珀斯克里斯蒂举行。除了全体会议和主题会议、研究报告和海报会议外，还将举行圆桌会议和小组讨论，以及其他互动会议，以增加会议参与度。拟议的工作包括评价部分和一项传播计划，以出版同行评议的会议记录。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。

The AGEP National Research Conference 2022 was created in response to the NSF's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program solicitation (NSF 16-552). The goal of the AGEP program is to increase the number of historically underrepresented minority faculty in STEM. The use of the term "historically underrepresented minority" reflects language from Congress, and in the context of the AGEP program, the AGEP populations are defined as STEM doctoral candidates, postdoctoral scholars and faculty, who are African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. The AGEP program seeks to advance knowledge about models to improve pathways to the professoriate and the successes of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty, who are members of racial and ethnic groups that are underrepresented in STEM. AGEP awardees develop, implement, study, evaluate and disseminate AGEP Alliance Models to transform the dissertation phase of doctoral education, postdoctoral training and/or faculty advancement, and the transitions within and across the pathway levels.As the nation addresses STEM achievement gaps in postsecondary education, our universities and colleges struggle to recruit, retain and promote STEM faculty who are members of AGEP populations and who serve as role models and academic leaders for students to learn from, work with and emulate. Recent NSF reports indicate that STEM associate and full professors, who are members of racial and ethnic groups, occupy 8% of senior faculty positions at all 4-year colleges and universities, and about 6% of faculty positions at the nation's most research-intensive institutions. This AGEP National Research Conference will advance knowledge about initiatives that can be institutionalized, sustained, and strengthened to increase the number of historically underrepresented minority faculty in STEM.This conference convening will bring together hundreds of AGEP and non-AGEP awardees to advance knowledge and broader impacts about academic STEM career pathways. The goals of the conference are: 1) To provide a venue for AGEP Alliances to gain knowledge and share best practices on methods to strengthen, institutionalize, expand, and sustain their Alliances and communicate project findings; 2) To provide a venue for AGEP Alliance teams to share best practices and methods about interacting with and supporting their project participants; and 3) To provide NSF with a platform to garner stakeholder input from the AGEP awardees and to share new funding opportunities, policy changes and program updates with the awardees. The two and half-day conference is scheduled for November of 2022, in Corpus Christi, TX. In addition to plenary and keynote sessions, research presentations and a poster session, there will be round-table and small group discussions, and other interactive sessions to increase conference engagement. The proposed work includes evaluation components and a dissemination plan to publish peer-reviewed conference proceedings.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.