UT System LSAMP: A Model Senior Alliance

UT系统LSAMP：高级联盟典范

• 批准号: 1202008
• 负责人: Benjamin Flores
• 金额: $ 400万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at El Paso
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1202008&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: UT; System; LSAMP; Model; Senior

The primary goal of the University of Texas System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation is to increase the quantity and quality of underrepresented minority (URM) students that pursue and earn degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in the state of Texas and the nation. The Alliance, which is comprised of nine universities and five community colleges, has promoted STEM education at undergraduate and graduate levels and directly supported 1,565 undergraduate students. More than 90% of these LSAMP scholars have already graduated from UT system institutions with bachelor's degrees, and many of the remaining students are currently enrolled and making satisfactory progress toward their undergraduate degrees in STEM. The LSAMP has demonstrated how collaborative efforts can reap large rewards and serve as an impressive example of a state-wide commitment to improving enrollment, retention, performance, and graduation of underrepresented groups that traditionally have not had access to higher education. The UT System LSAMP will expand its membership to 16 institutions by including two additional large community college systems to continue its state-wide work by: - Enhancing the Summer Research Academy to ensure that a significant number of URM students, including veteran students, participate in a sequence of research experiences in various STEM fields, starting with on-campus training and culminating with a summer undergraduate research exchange, a national laboratory research experience, or a research abroad capstone. - Through close collaboration among partnering community colleges and universities, ensuring that a majority of co-enrolled URM students complete their STEM associate degrees in their two-year institutions and advance toward and later earn their bachelor's degrees in their four-year institutions. - Creating synergistic activities among closely related NSF funded projects (including but not limited to S-STEM, STEP, REU, and AGEP) at each one of the Alliance's partnering institutions to create pathways to success for URM STEM students. Intellectual Merit. The proposed activities, centered on a set of interconnected undergraduate research experiences, will advance knowledge and understanding of the academic factors that enable URM students to successfully earn STEM degrees. The leadership team of the project includes a competent and diverse group of administrators, faculty, and professional staff who are fully committed to the notion of broader higher education participation, early talent development, and excellence in performance. The Alliance institutions will ensure that the project is successfully completed and that its most effective components are sustained beyond the term of the grant. An external evaluator will provide an impartial periodic assessment of the project to drive the decision making cycle for systematic improvements. Broader Impacts. The core research activities in which LSAMP scholars are engaged serve the purpose of training them to advance discovery and understanding and also to promote further depth of learning. The proposed activities broaden the participation of underrepresented minorities and veterans and, in many instances, low-income first-generation college students. Results of this effort will be disseminated broadly through journal and conference publications, as well as regional and national presentations. The general benefit to society is the development of a diverse STEM workforce that is globally competitive and truly representative of the nation?s 21st century demographics.

德克萨斯大学系统路易斯斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟的主要目标是提高德克萨斯州少数族裔 (URM) 学生攻读并获得科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 学位的数量和质量和国家。该联盟由九所大学和五所社区学院组成，在本科和研究生层面推广STEM教育，直接支持1,565名本科生。这些 LSAMP 学者中超过 90% 已从 UT 系统院校毕业并获得学士学位，其余许多学生目前正在就读，并在 STEM 本科学位方面取得令人满意的进展。 LSAMP 展示了协作努力如何能够获得巨大回报，并成为全州范围内致力于改善传统上无法接受高等教育的弱势群体的入学率、保留率、表现和毕业率的令人印象深刻的例子。 UT 系统 LSAMP 将通过纳入两个额外的大型社区学院系统，将其成员扩大到 16 个机构，以继续其全州范围内的工作： - 加强暑期研究学院，以确保包括退伍军人学生在内的大量 URM 学生参与不同 STEM 领域的一系列研究经验，从校园培训开始，到暑期本科生研究交流、国家实验室研究经验或海外研究顶峰结束。 - 通过合作社区学院和大学之间的密切合作，确保大多数共同注册的 URM 学生在两年制院校中完成 STEM 副学士学位，并在四年制院校中升读并获得学士学位。 - 在联盟的每一所合作机构密切相关的 NSF 资助项目（包括但不限于 S-STEM、STEP、REU 和 AGEP）之间开展协同活动，为 URM STEM 学生创造成功之路。智力优点。拟议的活动以一系列相互关联的本科生研究经验为中心，将增进对学术因素的了解和理解，使 URM 学生能够成功获得 STEM 学位。该项目的领导团队包括一支由管理人员、教师和专业人员组成的有能力且多元化的团队，他们完全致力于更广泛的高等教育参与、早期人才发展和卓越绩效的理念。联盟机构将确保该项目成功完成，并确保其最有效的组成部分在赠款期限后持续存在。外部评估员将对项目进行公正的定期评估，以推动决策周期的系统改进。更广泛的影响。 LSAMP学者从事的核心研究活动旨在培训他们促进发现和理解，并进一步促进学习的深度。拟议的活动扩大了代表性不足的少数族裔和退伍军人的参与，在许多情况下还扩大了低收入第一代大学生的参与。这项努力的成果将通过期刊和会议出版物以及区域和国家演讲广泛传播。对社会的普遍好处是培养具有全球竞争力并真正代表国家 21 世纪人口结构的多元化 STEM 劳动力。