North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation - Phase III

北卡罗来纳州路易斯斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟 - 第三阶段

• 批准号: 0217571
• 负责人: Alton Thompson
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-11-01 至 2009-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0217571&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: North; Carolina; Louis; Stokes; Alliance

North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation - Phase IIIThe North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NC-LSAMP) requestssupport for continuingits efforts during Phase III. The LS-NCAMP Alliance includes eightpartner institutions - North Carolina A&T State University (lead institution), FayettevilleState University, North Carolina Central University, North Carolina State University,University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Charlotte, University of North Carolina - Pembroke, and Winston Salem State University. TheProvost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at North Carolina A&T State Universitywill lead the project with assistance from key administrators at all Alliance institutions. This will ensure the effective institutionalization of the strategies proposed here. The work proposed caps a decade long series of activities aimed primarily at increasing undergraduate degree production in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (SMET). Underrepresented minorities comprise 30 percent of the college-age population but they represent only 11 percent of the baccalaureate engineering graduates resulting in a "parity gap" of 19 percent. The parity gap is even more pronounced at the master'sand doctoral level. Clearly, more needs to be done to reduce this parity gap, more out ofeconomic necessity and to meet global competitive pressures than any other reason. The efforts outlined in this proposal are aimed at meeting this challenge. The activities proposed in this proposal are driven by the need to increase substantially the number of underrepresented minorities who will contribute significantly in science,mathematics, engineering and technology areas. While the baccalaureate degree programs will receive continued attention, special emphasis will be placed on amplifying the flow of minority students in the graduate and research pipeline. The primary goals of theproposal are (i) to increase the pool of competent underrepresented SMET graduates with bachelor's degrees (specific objectives include increasing the number of SMET graduates from bachelor's degree programs by 10% from allAlliance partner schools by2007 and increasing the quality of SMET bachelors degree graduates from all alliancepartner schools based on their performance in college courses and national examinationsby 50% by 2007) and (ii) to increase the number of students who matriculate into SMET graduate schools (specific objectives include increasing the number of SMET studentswho express an interest in graduate studies by 100% by 2007, increasing by 100%, thenumber of SMET graduates who are academically qualified for admission to graduate programs by 2007, increasing the number of SMET graduates from alliance partnerinstitutions who are enrolled in graduate SMET programs by 100% by 2007, and increasing the retention rate by 10% of underrepresented students in graduate SMET programs). An additional goal of the project is to identify significant factors that promote baccalaureatedegree attainment, retention in academic programs and entry into graduate school in SMET areas (specific objectives are to identify significant factors that promote and hinder retention of minority students enrolled in SMETbaccalaureate degree programs, and to identify significant factors that promote and hinder entry of minorityundergraduate students into graduate SMET degree programs).Strategies for accomplishing project goals are based on published techniques that have proven successful in smaller samples. Specifically, the approaches to be employed includefocused recruitment from school; bridge programs to manage the school-college transition;supplemental instruction, cohort scheduling and workshops for undergraduate students during the first year to enhance retention and preparation for upper-class coursework; undergraduate research and professional development workshops aimed at motivating andpreparing students for graduate study; and the development of networking and mentoring systems to improve retention in the first year in graduate school. A key emphasis duringPhase III will be Alliance-wide institutionalization of proven strategies that have beenknown to improve the success rates of students in SMET.The Alliance partners together awarded over a thousand degrees and currently enroll over six thousand undergraduate minority students in SMET programs. In addition to students in the Alliance, dissemination activities under this proposal have the potential to impact several thousand students each year.

北卡罗来纳州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟-第三阶段北卡罗来纳州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（NC-LSAMP）请求支持在第三阶段继续努力。LS-NCAMP联盟包括八个合作机构--北卡罗来纳州AT州立大学（牵头机构）、费耶特维尔州立大学、北卡罗来纳州中央大学、北卡罗来纳州州立大学、北卡罗来纳州查佩尔山大学、北卡罗来纳州夏洛特大学、北卡罗来纳州彭布罗克大学和温斯顿塞勒姆州立大学。北卡罗来纳州AT州立大学教务长兼副校长将在所有联盟机构主要管理人员的协助下领导该项目。这将确保这里提出的战略有效地制度化。拟议的工作涵盖了十年之久的一系列活动，主要旨在增加科学，数学，工程和技术（SMET）的本科学位生产。代表性不足的少数民族占大学适龄人口的30%，但他们只占学士学位工程毕业生的11%，导致19%的“均等差距”。在硕士和博士一级，平等差距甚至更为明显。显然，我们需要做更多的工作来缩小这种平价差距，这更多地是出于经济需要和应对全球竞争压力，而不是其他任何原因。本提案中概述的努力旨在应对这一挑战。本提案中提议的活动是由于需要大幅度增加代表性不足的少数群体的人数，他们将在科学、数学、工程和技术领域作出重大贡献。虽然学士学位课程将继续受到关注，但将特别强调扩大少数民族学生在研究生和研究管道中的流动。该建议的主要目标是（i）增加具有学士学位的中小型企业培训毕业生的人才库具体目标包括：到2007年，将所有联盟伙伴学校的SMET学士学位课程毕业生人数增加10%，并将所有联盟伙伴学校的SMET学士学位毕业生的质量（根据他们在大学课程和国家考试中的表现）提高50（ii）增加进入中小企业技术学院研究生院的学生人数（具体目标包括：到2007年，对研究生课程感兴趣的中小企业学生人数增加100%，到2007年，达到研究生课程入学资格的中小企业毕业生人数增加100%，到2007年，将参加SMET研究生课程的联盟伙伴机构的SMET毕业生人数增加100%，并将SMET研究生课程中代表性不足的学生的留存率增加10%）。该项目的另一个目标是确定促进中学毕业生获得学位，保留学术课程和进入研究生院的重要因素，（具体目标是确定促进和阻碍少数民族学生留在SMETbaccalaureate学位课程的重要因素，并确定促进和阻碍少数民族本科生进入研究生SMET学位课程的重要因素）。实现项目目标的策略基于已发布的技术，这些技术已在较小的样本中被证明是成功的。具体而言，将采用的方法包括：从学校重点招生;管理学校-学院过渡的桥梁方案;第一年为本科生提供补充指导、队列安排和讲习班，以提高保留率和为高年级课程做准备;本科生研究和专业发展讲习班，旨在激励学生并为研究生学习做准备;以及发展网络和指导系统，以提高研究生院第一年的保留率。第三阶段的一个关键重点是在联盟范围内将提高学生在SMET中的成功率的行之有效的战略制度化。联盟的合作伙伴共同授予了一千多个学位，目前在SMET项目中招收了六千多名本科少数民族学生。除了联盟的学生外，根据这一建议开展的传播活动每年有可能影响到数千名学生。