LSAMP - Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation

Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation项目摘要Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation项目摘要Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation（PSLSAMP）是由格鲁吉亚的七所大学共同努力，以增加全州完成科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域本科学位的少数民族学生人数。 格鲁吉亚正在经历爆炸性的人口增长，同时采取有利于战略和技术导向领域经济发展的政策。 迫切需要有较强技术技能的大学毕业生。 人们还广泛认识到，代表性不足的少数群体必须大力参与满足这一需要。 目前的提案由格鲁吉亚大学与班布里奇学院、堡谷州立大学、格鲁吉亚周边学院、梅肯州立大学、萨凡纳州立大学和南方理工大学密切合作制定，提交给国家科学基金会，并要求1000美元，在五年内每年提供1000美元，以支持全联盟和各个校园的方案拟订工作。 主要影响将是加强少数民族学生的招聘和保留，并使参与大学中获得STEM学科学士学位的学生人数增加一倍。 美国受过技术和科学培训的大学毕业生短缺是有据可查的，而打算主修STEM领域的美国学生进入学院和大学的比例稳步下降。 如果美国要保持其经济领导地位、安全和生活质量，加强STEM劳动力及其领导力是一个优先考虑的问题。 为非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和其他代表性不足的少数民族在这些领域的职业生涯做好准备，是解决这些需求的大多数战略的一个合乎逻辑的组成部分。 在像格鲁吉亚这样的州，这有一个压倒性的令人信服的逻辑，在那里，这些少数民族占该州人口的34%。 提高少数民族参与本科STEM领域是一个复杂的问题。 在格鲁吉亚，制定一项动态的全州计划来解决这一问题，最初需要非常不同类型的机构密切合作，以实现一个共同的，长期的目标，在生产少数STEM毕业生。 目前的建议就是这种机构间合作的结果。 除了主要影响外，PSLSAMP计划还将：提供旨在激励学生追求深造的机会，为学生进入研究生院做好准备，强调STEM领域的职业机会，让教职员工参与规划过程和专业发展活动，以确保制度化，在格鲁吉亚境内各机构和组织之间建立真正的伙伴关系。 格鲁吉亚大学将代表桃州联盟担任牵头机构和信托代理人，研究科学家迈克尔亚当斯总统本人将担任首席研究员和理事会主席。 理事会沿着指导委员会和研究人员将为联盟提供知识领导。

Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Project Summary The Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (PSLSAMP) is a collaborative effort sustained by seven universities in Georgia to increase the number of underrepresented minority students statewide who complete undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Georgia is experiencing explosive population growth while embracing policies that favor economic development in strategic, technology-oriented fields. There is a compelling need for college graduates with strong technical skills. There is also wide recognition that underrepresented minorities must participate significantly in meeting this need. The current proposal, developed by the University of Georgia in close collaboration with Bainbridge College, Fort Valley State University, Georgia Perimeter College, Macon State College, Savannah State University, and Southern Polytechnic University, is submitted to the National Science Foundation and requests $1,000,000 per year for five years to support Alliance-wide and individual campus-based programming. The primary impacts will be to enhance the recruitment and retention of minority students and double the number of such students at participating universities overall who earn bachelor.s degrees in STEM disciplines. Intellectual Merit The shortage of American college graduates with technical and scientific training is well documented, and the percentage of U.S. students entering colleges and universities with the intention of majoring in STEM fields has steadily declined. Strengthening the STEM workforce and its leadership is a priority concern if the U.S. is to maintain its economic leadership, security and quality of life. Preparing African Americans, Hispanic Americans and other underrepresented minorities for careers in these fields is a logical component of most strategies to address these needs. It has an overwhelmingly compelling logic in a state like Georgia where these minorities make up approximately 34% of the state.s population. Improving minority involvement in undergraduate STEM fields is a complex problem. In Georgia, the development of a dynamic statewide plan to address this problem requires initially that very different types of institutions cooperate closely to achieve a shared, long-term goal in terms of the production of minority STEM graduates. The current proposal is the result of such inter-institutional collaboration. Broader Impacts In addition to its primary impacts, PSLSAMP programs will: Provide opportunities designed to motivate students to pursue advanced study, Prepare students for graduate school, Emphasize career opportunities in STEM fields, Engage faculty and staff in the planning process and in professional development activities to ensure institutionalization, and Create a genuine partnership among institutions and organizations within Georgia. The University of Georgia will serve as the lead institution and fiduciary agent on behalf of the Peach State Alliance and President Michael Adams, a research scientist himself, will serve as the principal investigator and chair of the Governing Board. The Governing Board, along with the Steering Committee and research faculty, will provide intellectual leadership to the Alliance.