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)请求在第三阶段继续努力。LS-NCAMP联盟包括八个伙伴机构--北卡罗来纳农工大学(牵头机构)、费耶特维尔州立大学、北卡罗来纳中央大学、北卡罗来纳州立大学、北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校、北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校、北卡罗来纳大学彭布罗克分校和温斯顿·塞勒姆州立大学。北卡罗来纳农工州立大学教务长兼负责学术事务的副校长将在联盟所有机构的主要管理人员的协助下领导该项目。这将确保在此提出的战略有效制度化。这项工作提出了一系列长达十年的活动，主要目的是提高科学、数学、工程和技术(SMET)的本科学位产量。未被充分代表的少数族裔占大学适龄人口的30%，但他们只占工科学士毕业生的11%，导致了19%的“平等差距”。在硕士和博士水平上，性别差距更加明显。显然，需要做更多的工作来缩小这种平价差距，更多的是出于经济上的必要性，以及应对全球竞争压力，而不是其他任何原因。本提案中概述的努力旨在迎接这一挑战。这项提议中提议的活动是因为需要大幅增加人数不足的少数群体，他们将在科学、数学、工程和技术领域做出重大贡献。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族裔学生在研究生和研究渠道中的流动。该提案的主要目标是：(1)增加具有学士学位的合格、代表性不足的MMET毕业生的人数(具体目标包括到2007年将所有联盟伙伴学校的MMET学士学位课程毕业生的数量增加10%，并在2007年之前将所有联盟伙伴学校的MMET学士学位毕业生的质量提高50%)和(2)增加进入SMET研究生院的学生人数(具体目标包括到2007年将对研究生学习感兴趣的MMET学生人数增加100%，增加100%，到2007年，符合研究生入学资格的SMET毕业生人数将增加100%，到2007年，来自联盟伙伴机构的SMET毕业生进入研究生SMET项目的人数将增加100%，在研究生SMET项目中代表性不足的学生的保留率将增加10%。该项目的另一个目标是确定促进获得学士学位、留住学术项目和进入SMET地区研究生院的重要因素(具体目标是确定促进和阻碍就读SMET学士学位项目的少数族裔学生的重要因素，以及确定促进和阻碍少数族裔本科生进入SMET学位项目的重要因素)。实现项目目标的战略基于已发表的技术，这些技术在较小的样本中被证明是成功的。具体来说，将采用的方法包括分散从学校招聘；管理学校与大学过渡的过渡计划；在第一年为本科生提供补充指导、队列安排和研讨会，以加强留住学生并为上层课程做准备；旨在激励学生并为研究生学习做准备的本科生研究和专业发展研讨会；以及开发网络和指导系统，以提高研究生第一年的留存率。第三阶段的一个关键重点将是在联盟范围内将已被证明可以提高中小企业学生成功率的战略制度化。联盟合作伙伴总共授予了1000多个学位，目前在SMET项目中招收6000多名本科生。除了联盟的学生外，根据这项提议开展的传播活动每年可能影响数千名学生。

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.