Collaborative Research: The AGEP Massachusetts State University System Equity-Minded Model for Recruiting and Advancing Early Career Faculty in the STEM Professoriate

马萨诸塞州公立高等教育系统中的三所合作机构，弗雷明翰州立大学、布里奇沃特州立大学和伍斯特州立大学，正在合作开发和实施一种公平的模式，以促进属于AGEP人口的早期职业STEM教师：非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美国印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。AGEP教师职业道路联盟模式(FCPAM)的目标是开发、实施、评估和制度化FCPAM，以使院校转型为更具支持性和文化敏感度，从而使教师能够成功地通过招聘和保留沿着早期职业道路晋升到教学密集型综合性大学的终身教职。FCPAM正在提高职业生涯早期教师的成功程度，使教师人口统计数据将反映三家合作机构的学生人口统计数据。教师结构的这种变化最终将导致更多来自不同人群的STEM学生毕业，并增加STEM劳动力的多样性。加强STEM劳动力的多样性将有助于减少系统性种族主义，促进工作场所的创新，并促进马萨诸塞州联邦和我们国家的经济和繁荣。改善公平和包容性对于促进STEM教师队伍、教育美国未来的STEM劳动力、培养个人机会和促进美国经济繁荣至关重要。因此，NSF AGEP计划为促进和加强支持公平和包容性的系统性因素提供赠款，从而缓解学术专业和工作场所的系统性不平等。FCPAM奖项旨在支持联盟模式的发展、实施、评估和制度化，这些模式将在类似的高等教育机构内促进AGEP人口的发展。FCPAM的合作者还研究了社会文化、经济、结构、领导力和制度变量如何影响FCPAM的形成，以及合作者为促进AGEP人口而实施的战略或干预措施。FCPAM的基础包括集群招聘战略，以招聘将在大学中共享学习经验和支持系统的不同教师，包括联合教师发展倡议、教师导师计划、共同活动和共享资源。此外，该联盟还有一个以公平为重点的合作计划，以审查、改变和调整机构政策和程序，以支持为不同教师提供欢迎和支持的学术环境。该联盟将使用形成性和总结性评价来记录结果，并在整个项目生命周期内评价该模式的优点和缺点。对FCPAM发展和活动的自我研究将增进对社会文化、经济、结构和体制变量如何影响联盟模式的发展和成功以及机构文化变化的了解。FCPAM活动将被用来检验FCPAM活动对招聘教师成功的影响，涉及他们的身份，包括种族、民族、性别、性别认同、移民身份或国籍、能力、作为照顾者或父母。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Three collaborating institutions in the Massachusetts Public Higher Education System, Framingham State University, Bridgewater State University and Worcester State University, are working together to develop and implement an equity-minded model for advancing early career STEM faculty who are members of AGEP populations: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. This AGEP Faculty Career Pathways Alliance Model’s (FCPAM) goal is to develop, implement, evaluate and institutionalize a FCPAM for transforming institutions to be more supportive and culturally sensitive such that the faculty successfully advance through recruitment and retention along early career pathways to tenure in teaching intensive comprehensive universities. This FCPAM is improving the success of early-career faculty such that faculty demographics will mirror student demographics at the three collaborating institutions. This change in faculty demographics will ultimately result in graduating more STEM students from diverse populations and increasing diversity in the STEM workforce. Enhancing diversity within the STEM workforce will contribute to mitigating systemic racism, boosting innovation in the workplace, and enhancing the economy and prosperity within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and our Nation.Improving equity and inclusion is critical to advancing STEM faculty, educating America’s future STEM workforce, fostering individual opportunity and contributing to a thriving U.S. economy. The NSF AGEP program, therefore, funds grants that advance and enhance the systemic factors that support equity and inclusion and, consequently, mitigate the systemic inequities in the academic profession and workplace. FCPAM awards are intended to support the development, implementation, evaluation, and institutionalization of Alliance models that will advance AGEP populations, within similar institutions of higher education. FCPAM collaborators also study how socio-cultural, economic, structural, leadership and institutional variables affect the formation of the FCPAM, and the strategies or interventions the collaborators implement to advance AGEP populations.The foundation of this FCPAM includes a cluster hiring strategy to recruit diverse faculty who will have a shared learning experience and support system across the universities, including a joint faculty development initiative, a faculty mentorship program, common events and shared resources. In addition, the Alliance has a collaborative plan focusing on equity to examine, change, and align institutional policies and procedures in support of a welcoming and supportive academic climate for a diverse faculty. The Alliance will use formative and summative evaluations to document results and evaluate strengths and weaknesses of the model throughout the life of the project. The self-study of the FCPAM development and activities will advance knowledge concerning how socio-cultural, economic, structural, and institutional variables impact the development and success of the Alliance model and the institutional culture changes. An intersectional lens will be used to examine the impact of the FCPAM activities on the success of recruited faculty in relation to their identities, including race, ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, immigration status or national origin, abilities, and being a caregiver or a parent.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.