Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP): Alabama Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation Phase III

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The underrepresentation of minorities in the science, mathematics, engineering, and technologyworkforce is still a national problem, ten years after the National Science Foundation (NFS) initiatedthe Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program. By all accounts greatprogress has been made, but not enough to turn the problem around. As one of the six oldest NationalScience Foundation (NSF) Alliances in the nation, Alabama has been in the forefront of efforts toincrease the quantity and the quality of underrepresented minorities receiving baccalaureate degrees inscience, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) fields. Many of the Alabama Alliance'sprograms have been replicated by other alliances. The Alabama Louis Stokes Alliance for MinorityParticipation (ALSAMP) began in 1991 with a baseline of 431 minority SEM undergraduate degreesand reached a peak of 979 in 1999, a 127% increase. The baseline minority SEM enrollment forALSAMP is 3,301. The minority SEM enrollment for the 1999-2000 academic year is 5,876, a 78%increase. These are indicators of success for ALSAMP Phase I and Phase II.The ALSAMP Phase III proposal is designed to a) sustain the B.S. Degree production levelsand student retention rates specified as Phase II goals and b) define a baseline level of and commitmentto a significant increase in the number of previous, current, and future baccalaureate recipients enteringeither a SMET graduate program or a graduate program in teacher education. Thus, the projectapproach for LSAMP will involve sustaining and institutionalizing current LSAMP Phase II activitiesand the implementation of new LSAMP Phase III activities as given below.Programs to be Sustained and Institutionalized New LSAMP Phase III ProgramsLSAMP Summer Bridge Program GRE Preparation for All StudentsLSAMP Scholars Program Undergraduate Research for All StudentsSummer Research Internship Program GRE Required for All LSAMP StudentsLSAMP Graduate Bridge ProgramSEM Student Mentoring Program Increase Number of SMET Students Entering Graduate School through Tracking EffortDrop-In Centers/Cooperative Learning Intensify Recruitment of Technology StudentsSummer Research Conference Increase Collaboration with Other ProgramsPublication of The National LSAMP Magazine National LSAMP Publication in Phase III BudgetThe major portion of the Phase III budget will support these new programs. Consequently, thePhase II programs will be sustained by cost sharing from participating institutions, support fromprivate sources, and institutionalization. During the next five years, LSAMP will define a baselinelevel of and commit to a significant increase in the number of baccalaureate degree recipients enteringeither a SMET graduate program or a graduate program in teacher education. This effort will involvepreparing students for success in graduate school and placement in a graduate school of choice.Students will be tracked through graduate school by means of the LSAMP Success Link Programand a graduate student database will be maintained by the Alliance.Collaboration with other NSF programs will be increased substantially, particularly with theNSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Program and the NSF Urban SystemicProgram. Program activities will be disseminated through the publication of the National LSAMPMagazine and a full-time program evaluator will be appointed to oversee assessment and evaluationactivities.