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The Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) is a grant awarded to èßäapp¹ÙÍø by the NSF. Partners in an AGEP Transformation Alliances develop, replicate or reproduce; implement and study, via integrated educational and social science research, 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 URMs in STEM and/or STEM education research careers.

The NSF-AGEP Predominantly Undergraduate Institution (PUI) Alliance is comprised of Stony Brook University (lead Institution), èßäapp¹ÙÍø, Farmingdale State College, and Brookhaven National Laboratory. Faculty at èßäapp¹ÙÍø County Community College are selected to provide teaching mentorships and oversee micro-teaching experiences for URM doctoral dissertators in the STEM disciplines visiting from Stony Brook University. The goal of the project at èßäapp¹ÙÍø is to pave the way for increased diversity amongst èßäapp¹ÙÍø faculty and allow URM èßäapp¹ÙÍø undergraduate students to see themselves more represented in the faculty body. The AGEP PUI Alliance has the potential to advance a model to improve the success of URM early career STEM faculty in PUIs, which ultimately leads to improved academic mentorship for URM undergraduate students in STEM at community colleges, two-year academic institutions, and other PUIs.