Bridge to the Doctorate at UMBC 2011-2013

2011-2013 年 UMBC 博士学位桥梁

• 批准号: 1139908
• 负责人: Freeman Hrabowski
• 金额: $ 98.7万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1139908&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bridge; Doctorate; UMBC; 2011; 2013

The University System of Maryland (USM) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) willbuild upon its success of training and educating Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Fellows by proposinga program for a sixth cohort. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is the lead institutionof a senior-level LSAMP and has been designated as the BD site for 2011-2013. UMBC is dedicated torecruiting, retaining, educating, and training underrepresented students in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, and preparing them for success in the STEM workforce.UMBC welcomed its first cohort of BD Fellows in 2005. Three of those Fellows completed Ph.D.s during2010-2011. Others from that cohort are persisting in doctoral programs (full-time and part-time) or havereceived M.S. degrees and remain in touch with UMBC's BD Program as they plan to return for thedoctorate. (One 2005 BD Fellow is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Utah, and another will begin theD.Eng. program at Morgan State University in fall 2011.) The USM has four additional cohorts of fellowson both the UMBC and the University of Maryland, College Park campuses. The Fellows connect withone another at BD training, professional development, and community building events. The USM LSAMPbegan in 1995 and has been vigilant about increasing the number of underrepresented minoritybaccalaureate degree recipients in STEM disciplines. The BD award will enable us to strengthen both ourundergraduate and graduate pipelines and create an expanded community of scholars within thesedisciplines.Plans for the 2011-2013 cohort include activities that will begin during the fellows' first week on campus.The program includes extensive orientation activities such as a 2-day Summer Success Institute, theGraduate School Orientation, and multi-day orientations with faculty within the STEM departments. In thefirst year, the Fellows will be assigned a Peer Mentor; apply for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship;receive training in public speaking; and complete a 30-50 page research preparation project that willrequire them to network with other graduate students, faculty, and BD Fellows at universities outside ofthe USM. Throughout the two years, BD Fellows will participate in bi-weekly BD meetings, attendmonthly Graduate Student Success Seminars, and participate in academic and professional developmentseminars with other graduate students and faculty. By the end of the second year, the BD Fellows willhave learned and implemented methodologies for achieving academic excellence, completed credits forthe M.S. degree or early qualifying milestones toward the doctorate (varies according to department),completed 10 hours of UMBC's "Professors-in-Training" modules, presented at two research conferences,participated in numerous networking opportunities with faculty, attended workshops on thesis completionand dissertation proposal planning, and developed a plan for persisting to finish the doctorate.

马里兰大学系统 (USM) 路易斯斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟 (LSAMP) 将在其成功培训和教育博士桥梁 (BD) 研究员的基础上，提出第六批计划。马里兰大学巴尔的摩分校 (UMBC) 是高级 LSAMP 的牵头机构，并被指定为 2011-2013 年 BD 站点。 UMBC 致力于招募、保留、教育和培训科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 领域代表性不足的学生，并为他们在 STEM 劳动力中取得成功做好准备。UMBC 于 2005 年迎来了第一批 BD 研究员。其中三人这些研究员在 2010 年至 2011 年期间完成了博士学位。该群体中的其他人正在坚持攻读博士学位课程（全日制和非全日制）或已获得硕士学位。学位并与 UMBC 的 BD 项目保持联系，因为他们计划返回攻读博士学位。 （一名 2005 年 BD 研究员是犹他大学的博士生，另一位将于 2011 年秋季在摩根州立大学开始 D.Eng. 课程。）USM 在 UMBC 和大学都有另外四批研究员马里兰州大学公园校区。研究员们通过 BD 培训、专业发展和社区建设活动相互联系。 USM LSAMP 始于 1995 年，一直对增加 STEM 学科中代表性不足的少数族裔学士学位获得者的数量保持警惕。 BD 奖项将使我们能够加强我们的本科生和研究生渠道，并在这些学科内创建一个扩大的学者社区。2011-2013 年队列的计划包括将在研究员入校第一周期间开始的活动。该计划包括广泛的迎新活动例如为期 2 天的暑期成功学院、研究生院迎新活动以及 STEM 系内教师的多日迎新活动。第一年，研究员将被指派一名同伴导师；申请美国国家科学基金会研究生研究奖学金；接受公开演讲培训；并完成一个 30-50 页的研究准备项目，该项目需要他们与 USM 以外大学的其他研究生、教师和 BD 研究员建立联系。在这两年中，BD 研究员将参加每两周一次的 BD 会议、每月一次的研究生成功研讨会，并与其他研究生和教师一起参加学术和专业发展研讨会。到第二年年底，BD 研究员将学习并实施实现学术卓越的方法，完成硕士学位学分。获得学位或取得博士学位的早期资格里程碑（因院系而异），完成 10 小时的 UMBC“培训教授”模块，在两次研究会议上发表演讲，参与众多与教师的交流机会，参加有关论文完成和论文提案的研讨会规划，制定了坚持读完博士学位的计划。