MoLSAMP

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• 批准号: 1619639
• 负责人: Freddie Wills
• 金额: $ 500万
• 依托单位: HARRIS-STOWE STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1619639&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MoLSAMP

The Missouri Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (MoLSAMP) includes two HBCUs, three major research institutions, a regional comprehensive university, a highly selective liberal arts university and an urban community college. The MoLSAMP Alliance will deploy a variety of activities and establish a logical cohesiveness among the individual campuses to promote recruitment, retention and graduation of underrepresented minority students with a goal to increase the number of underrepresented minorities (URM) majoring in and graduation with degrees in STEM disciplines by 125% in five years. The activities undertaken by MoLSAMP to achieve this ambitious objective will be designed to address both the cognitive and non-cognitive factors that influence success in undergraduate education. Featured activities include expansion of access to research and internships that provide experience in real world applied science, comprehensive academic advising and mentoring by dedicated faculty and administration, summer bridge programs for first and second year students and career development conferences and research symposiums designed to bring students and faculty together for informative and inspirational social gatherings. To facilitate a boundary-lite synergistic effort, articulation and reverse articulation agreements will be established to increase fluidity of academic credits between alliance institutions. A comprehensive and frequently updated MoLSAMP website will provide detailed information regarding MoLSAMP activities and related resources and serve as a conduit for student and faculty communication within and between alliance campuses. MoLSAMP supported activities will be continually evaluated to identify best practices and results will be disseminated though a variety of channels to facilitate efforts to increase URM participation and success in STEM nationwide.The MoLSAMP Alliance currently yields 64% of the total STEM baccalaureate degrees conferred to URMs in the State of Missouri. A primary goal of MoLSAMP is to increase the recruitment, retention and successful STEM degree completion of URMs by at least 125% by the year 2021. This goal will help to address the underrepresentation of minority groups in STEM education and the workforce, and with the success of MoLSAMP supported activities, inform the broader efforts of colleges and universities nationwide to diversify the STEM student population and ultimately strengthen our nation's science based workforce. Minority students face a variety of challenges that contribute to their underrepresentation in STEM degree programs. These challenges include insufficient preparation for college level STEM coursework, financial hardship and failure to socially and culturally integrate during the first year of college. MoLSAMP scholars will receive a variety of support mechanisms to mitigate these factors, including intrusive academic advising, ample opportunity to explore applied science through research and internship opportunities, social, academic and career networking opportunities through MoLSAMP organized social gatherings, social media platforms, mentoring programs, and summer bridge programs. MoLSAMP activities will also include measures to increase successful transfer of students from St. Louis Community College to four year degree Alliance institutions, and a 25% increase in URM students entering graduate programs. Successfully and substantially increasing the number of URM students completing degrees, entering graduate programs, working in research laboratories and importantly, teaching and mentoring the next generation of URM STEM students, should provide a scaffold for a sustainable increase in diversity in STEM education and industry.

密苏里州路易斯斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟 (MoLSAMP) 包括两所 HBCU、三个主要研究机构、一所地区综合性大学、一所高度选择性的文理大学和一所城市社区学院。 MoLSAMP 联盟将部署各种活动并在各个校园之间建立逻辑凝聚力，以促进代表性不足的少数族裔学生的招募、保留和毕业，目标是增加在 STEM 专业和毕业时获得代表性不足的少数族裔 (URM) 的数量五年内学科增长125%。 MoLSAMP 为实现这一宏伟目标而开展的活动将旨在解决影响本科教育成功的认知和非认知因素。特色活动包括扩大研究和实习的机会，提供现实世界应用科学的经验，由专门的教职人员和行政人员提供全面的学术建议和指导，为一年级和二年级学生提供暑期桥梁课程，以及旨在为学生带来机会的职业发展会议和研究研讨会和教师一起参加信息丰富且鼓舞人心的社交聚会。为了促进边界精简协同努力，将建立衔接和反向衔接协议，以增加联盟机构之间学分的流动性。全面且经常更新的 MoLSAMP 网站将提供有关 MoLSAMP 活动和相关资源的详细信息，并作为联盟校园内和联盟校园之间学生和教师沟通的渠道。 MoLSAMP 支持的活动将不断得到评估，以确定最佳实践，结果将通过各种渠道传播，以促进全国范围内 URM 的参与和 STEM 成功。MoLSAMP 联盟目前授予 URM 的 STEM 学士学位总数的 64%在密苏里州。 MoLSAMP 的主要目标是到 2021 年将 URM 的招聘、保留和成功完成 STEM 学位的人数增加至少 125%。这一目标将有助于解决少数群体在 STEM 教育和劳动力中代表性不足的问题，并通过MoLSAMP 支持活动的成功，为全国各地的学院和大学做出更广泛的努力提供了信息，使 STEM 学生群体多样化，并最终加强我们国家的科学劳动力队伍。少数族裔学生面临着各种挑战，导致他们在 STEM 学位课程中的代表性不足。这些挑战包括为大学水平的 STEM 课程准备不足、经济困难以及大学第一年未能融入社会和文化。 MoLSAMP 学者将获得各种支持机制来缓解这些因素，包括侵入式学术建议、通过研究和实习机会探索应用科学的充足机会、通过 MoLSAMP 组织的社交聚会、社交媒体平台、辅导计划提供的社会、学术和职业网络机会和夏季桥梁课程。 MoLSAMP 活动还将包括提高学生从圣路易斯社区学院转学到四年制学位联盟机构的成功率的措施，以及将进入研究生课程的 URM 学生增加 25%。成功并大幅增加 URM 学生完成学位、进入研究生课程、在研究实验室工作以及重要的是教学和指导下一代 URM STEM 学生的数量，应该为 STEM 教育和行业多样性的可持续增长提供一个支架。