Louis Stokes STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: University of Texas System LSAMP

Louis Stokes STEM 途径和研究联盟：德克萨斯大学系统 LSAMP

• 批准号: 1826745
• 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: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1826745&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Louis; Stokes; STEM; Pathways; Research

The University of Texas System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation's primary purpose is to increase the quantity and quality of underrepresented minority (URM) students who pursue and earn Bachelor's (BS) degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in the state of Texas to diversify the nation's workforce. The Alliance also aims to increase the number of STEM BS graduates who pursue Master's and/or Doctoral degrees. The Alliance is comprised of 14 institutions and will continue its statewide work by enhancing activities based on best practices such as undergraduate research opportunities domestic and abroad, collaborations with US Department of Energy laboratories, and an annual research conference modeled after national, research symposia. Innovative activities include the creation of a curricular Research Stream Initiative (SRI) in which student cohorts enroll in research courses for credit. Additionally, an expert evaluation team will introduce a new educational research component that will survey the growing pool of UT System LSAMP alumni to determine the social, economic, and academic factors that influence their community college and university preparation and degree completion, as well as their decision to pursue graduate degrees. This research activity will produce high quality conference and journal publications to disseminate the Alliance's results, which will encourage the replication of LSAMP activities at other peer institutions.The proposed activities, centered on a set of interconnected undergraduate research experiences, will advance knowledge and understanding of the social, economic, and academic factors that enable URM students to successfully earn STEM degrees and continue to graduate school. This project will positively influence and diversify the national STEM workforce to be globally competitive and truly representative of the nation's 21st century demographic. As a model Senior Alliance, it has demonstrated that collaborative efforts reap substantial rewards. The alliance has served as a genuine example of a statewide commitment to improve enrollment, retention, performance, and graduation of underrepresented groups that traditionally have not had access to higher education.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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的是提高在该领域攻读并获得科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 学士学位 (BS) 的少数族裔 (URM) 学生的数量和质量。德克萨斯州致力于实现国家劳动力多元化。该联盟还旨在增加攻读硕士和/或博士学位的 STEM BS 毕业生的数量。该联盟由 14 个机构组成，将继续在全州范围内开展工作，加强基于最佳实践的活动，例如国内外本科生研究机会、与美国能源部实验室的合作以及模仿国家研究研讨会的年度研究会议。创新活动包括创建课程研究流计划（SRI），学生群体报名参加研究课程以获得学分。此外，一个专家评估小组将引入一个新的教育研究部分，该部分将调查不断增长的 UT 系统 LSAMP 校友群体，以确定影响他们社区学院和大学准备和学位完成的社会、经济和学术因素，以及他们的学业成绩。决定攻读研究生学位。这项研究活动将产生高质量的会议和期刊出版物来传播联盟的成果，这将鼓励其他同行机构复制 LSAMP 活动。拟议的活动以一系列相互关联的本科生研究经验为中心，将增进对使 URM 学生成功获得 STEM 学位并继续攻读研究生的社会、经济和学术因素。该项目将积极影响国家 STEM 劳动力并使之多样化，使其具有全球竞争力并真正代表国家 21 世纪的人口。作为模范高级联盟，它已经证明协作努力可以获得丰厚的回报。该联盟是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、表现和毕业率的真实典范。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估被认为值得支持利用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准。