California State University Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (CSU-LSAMP) Senior Alliance - Senior Level Alliance

项目摘要：该项目是对NSF计划征集07-566(扩大STEM-LSAMP计划元素9133参与联盟)的响应，是加州州立大学-路易·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟(CSU-LSAMP)作为高级联盟的五年延续。CSU-LSAMP于1994年启动，是一项全州范围的计划，致力于扩大对科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科的参与。目前的高级CSU-LSAMP包括加州州立大学(CSU)23个校区中的22个。唯一没有包括在内的CSU校园是加州海事学院，这是CSU的一个独特的专业校园。因此，这个项目确实是CSU的综合努力，CSU是世界上最大的公立高等教育系统，位于全国最大和最多样化的州。智力优势：CSU-LSAMP作为一个高级LSAMP项目，旨在：(1)继续提高学生在STEM学科的表现、成功和留存；以及保持或增加学士学位的产生，(2)通过提高转学学生保留率的活动，促进社区大学学生在转学的第一年过渡到CSU校园；(3)继续提高学生对STEM研究和职业的兴趣，并增强CSU-LSAMP学生的全球意识。(4)增加STEM研究生课程和博士学位的录取人数，以及(5)记录、传播和复制本科生干预模式，以增加获得STEM学士学位课程的机会和成功，并促进本科生进入STEM研究生课程。为支持每个目标而提供的活动类型一直被证明有助于URM学生在STEM中的留住和进步，并代表了一套成熟的？最佳实践？值得注意的是，该项目继续包括城市学院--S对土地利用/土地管理计划的全国性研究(即研究经验、指导、实习、奖学金/津贴和学术支持/辅导)中确定的五项最重要的土地利用/土地管理计划标志性活动。此外，鉴于城市学院？S发现，参与研究的LSAMP参与者更有可能攻读和完成研究生学位，该项目包括了对让学生参与研究活动的实质性强调。该项目还包括各种旨在提高学生研究生课程资格的活动(例如，GRE准备、教学经验、研究报告和实习)，并与参与校园的其他学生支持计划(例如McNair和NIH-NIGMS未来之桥计划)以及博士授予机构的计划(例如AGEP)合作，这些计划都有扩大STEM参与的目标。广泛的影响：CSU-LSAMP为扩大STEM学科中代表不足的少数群体(URM)的参与做出了重大贡献。在过去14年的CSU-LSAMP项目历史中，参与这些项目的校园总共授予了109,115个STEM学士学位。在这些学位中，18,513个STEM学位授予自称是URM团体成员的学生，77,105个STEM学位授予自称不是URM团体成员的学生，13,497个STEM学位授予拒绝提供种族/族裔数据的学生。虽然CSU-LSAMP并不局限于市管学生参加，也不向市管学生提供优先录取条件，但该项目预计每年录取的1600-2000届STEM学生中，85%-90%将是市管学生。CSU-LSAMP还预计，在项目期间，高级联盟中的22个CSU校区的URM STEM学士学位产量将从当前的1,654个基准线增加到至少2,000个/年，到项目期结束时，攻读研究生课程的URM CSU-LSAMP参与者的数量将从估计的95个/年增加到200个/年。

PROJECT SUMMARY: This project, which responds to NSF Program Solicitation 07-566 (Alliances for Broadening Participation in STEM?LSAMP program element 9133), is a five-year continuation of the California State University-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (CSU-LSAMP) as a Senior-level Alliance. Initiated in 1994, CSU-LSAMP is a statewide program dedicated to broadening participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The current Senior-level CSU-LSAMP includes 22 of the 23 campuses of the California State University (CSU). The only CSU campus that is not included is The California Maritime Academy, which is a unique and specialized campus of the CSU. Hence, this project is truly a comprehensive effort of the CSU, the largest system of public higher education in the world, located in the largest and most diverse State in the Nation.Intellectual Merit: As a Senior-level LSAMP project, CSU-LSAMP aims to: (1) continue to enhance student performance, success, and retention in STEM disciplines; as well as maintain or increase baccalaureate degree production, (2) facilitate the transition of community college students in their first year of transfer to a CSU campus through activities that improve the retention rates of transfer students; (3) continue to enhance student interest in research and careers in STEM, as well as enhance the global awareness of CSU-LSAMP students. (4) increase the number of students who are admitted to graduate programs and obtain doctoral degrees in STEM, and (5) document, disseminate, and replicate undergraduate intervention models that increase access to, and success in, STEM baccalaureate degree programs and facilitate undergraduate admissions to STEM graduate programs.The types of activities that are offered to support each objective have consistently been shown to facilitate retention and progression of URM students in STEM, and represent a set of well-established ?best practices?. Notably, the project continues to include the top five LSAMP hallmark activities, which were identified in the Urban Institute?s national study of LSAMP (i.e., research experiences, mentoring, internships, scholarships/ stipends and academic support/tutoring). In addition, in light of the Urban Institute?s finding that LSAMP participants who participated in research were more likely to pursue and complete graduate degrees, this project includes a substantial emphasis on engaging students in research activities. The project also includes a variety of activities designed to opportunities to enhance student qualifications for graduate programs (e.g., GRE preparation, teaching experiences; research presentations, and internships), and collaborates with other student support programs on participating campuses (e.g., McNair and NIH-NIGMS Bridges to the Future programs) and with programs at Ph.D. granting institutions (e.g., AGEP) that share the goal of broadening participation in STEM.Broader Impacts: CSU-LSAMP has contributed substantially to broadening participation of underrepresented minority (URM) groups in STEM disciplines. Over the 14 year history of past CSU-LSAMP projects, the campuses participating in those projects awarded a total of 109,115 STEM baccalaureate degrees. Of these degrees, 18,513 STEM degrees were awarded to students who self declared as members of URM groups, 77,105 STEM degrees were awarded to students who self-declared as not being members of URM groups, and 13,497 STEM degrees were awarded to students who declined to provide race/ethnicity data. Although CSU-LSAMP does not limit participation to URM students or provide URM students preference in admission, the project anticipates that 85-90% of the 1600-2000 STEM students admitted to the project each year will be URM students. CSU-LSAMP also anticipates that, over the course of the project period, URM STEM baccalaureate degree production by the 22 CSU campuses in the Senior-level Alliance will increase from the current year base-line of 1,654 to at least 2,000/year and that the number of URM CSU-LSAMP participants who progress to graduate programs will increase from an estimated base-line of 95/year to 200/year by the end of the project period.