Bridge to the Doctorate: Alabama LSAMP

通往博士学位的桥梁：阿拉巴马州 LSAMP

• 批准号: 1702406
• 负责人: Viola Acoff
• 金额: $ 107.5万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1702406&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bridge; Doctorate; Alabama; LSAMP

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the STEM workforce through the development of highly competitive students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines: African-Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. The goal of the LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Activity is to increase the quantity and quality of STEM graduate students from underrepresented populations, with emphasis on Ph.D. matriculation and completion. BD programs implemented in the nation's institutions of higher education contribute to addressing one of the objectives in NSF's 2014-2018 Strategic Plan, namely to "integrate education and research to support development of a diverse STEM workforce with cutting-edge capabilities." For the U.S. to remain competitive globally, it must provide exceptional educational preparedness in STEM areas that underpin the knowledge-based economy. This project serves the national interest by developing strategies for attracting, retaining, educating, and graduating underrepresented graduate students. The Alabama LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate at The University of Alabama is designed to accomplish the specific goals and priorities of the Bridge to the Doctorate Program. The objectives are to provide underrepresented minority students with the necessary academic and research skills that will enable them to successfully earn STEM doctoral degrees, to increase the number of underrepresented minority students who successfully complete STEM doctoral programs, and to prepare BD participants to apply for the NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) and similar competitive fellowships. BD participants will be provided with extensive training and professional development activities coupled with mentoring and networking to prepare them to persist in their graduate program and to enable them to successfully earn their STEM doctoral degree. The evaluation plan will assess the success of the Alabama LSAMP BD in meeting the objectives. The plan includes both formative (process) and summative (outcomes) components. The formative evaluation will track the activities for the BD program. The summative evaluation will track the success of the program in meeting its overarching goals for each fellowship recipient. To enhance the rigor of the evaluation, institutional data regarding the recruitment, fellowship awards, and retention of underrepresented groups in UA STEM doctoral programs, but who are not part of the BD program, will be examined for comparison.

路易斯·斯托克·斯托克（Louis Stok）少数族裔参与（LSAMP）计划通过从历史上不足以占主体竞争的学生的发展来帮助大学和学院多样化的STEM劳动力：非裔美国人，非洲裔美国人，阿拉斯加土著人，美洲印第安人，美国印第安人，西班牙裔美国人，西班牙裔美国人，夏威夷原住民夏威夷原住民和太平洋生物学生物。 LSAMP桥通往博士学位（BD）活动的目标是增加来自代表性不足人群的STEM研究生的数量和质量，重点是博士学位。入学和完成。该国高等教育机构实施的BD计划有助于解决NSF 2014 - 2018年战略计划中的目标之一，即“将教育和研究整合起来，以支持多样化的STEM劳动力与最先进能力的发展”。要使美国在全球范围内保持竞争力，它必须在基于知识经济的STEM地区提供卓越的教育准备。该项目通过制定吸引，保留，教育和毕业不足的研究生的战略来为国家利益提供服务。阿拉巴马州阿拉巴马大学博士学位的阿拉巴马州LSAMP桥旨在实现博士学位课程桥梁的具体目标和优先事项。 这些目标是为代表人数不足的少数群体提供必要的学术和研究技能，使他们能够成功获得STEM博士学位，以增加成功完成STEM博士学位课程的代表性不足的少数族裔学生的数量，并准备BD参与者为NSF的研究生研究研究员计划（GRFP）和类似的有竞争力的Fellowships申请。 BD参与者将获得广泛的培训和专业发展活动，并提供指导和网络，以准备他们继续研究他们的研究生课程，并使他们能够成功地获得STEM博士学位。评估计划将评估阿拉巴马州LSAMP BD在实现目标方面的成功。该计划包括形成性（过程）和总结性（结果）组件。形成性评估将跟踪BD计划的活动。总结性评估将跟踪该计划的成功，以实现每个奖学金接收者的总体目标。为了增强评估的严格性，有关招聘，奖学金奖励的机构数据以及在UA STEM博士课程中代表性不足的群体的保留，但不是BD计划的一部分，将检查以进行比较。