Arkansas Alliance for Minority Participation (ARK-LSAMP) in STEM Careers - New Alliance

阿肯色州少数族裔参与联盟（ARLSAMP）在STEM职业生涯执行摘要（智力优势和更广泛的影响）阿肯色州路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（ARLSAMP）是九个机构的合作联盟，包括两个历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）和两个两年制机构，其目标是增加学士学位，硕士，以及阿肯色州STEM学科的博士学位毕业生？劳动力通过ARLSAMP，第一次有一个集合和网络的公共和私营机构的代表性的数量，通过接受一个共同的需要，以产生更多的合格的STEM毕业生动员;在共同愿景的指导下，帮助阿肯色州，该地区，该联盟的活动将解决招聘问题，（中学和两年制大学）。ARLSAMP暑期学院将帮助大一新生做好准备，顺利过渡到大学水平的课程。对瓶颈课程的审查将导致干预措施，以防止学生在这些关键点被从STEM管道中删除。在教师实验室的夏季和学年研究将提供课外参与STEM前沿的研究。指导计划将提供同侪指导（高层次的学生到低层次的学生）以及教师指导。STEM研讨会系列将提供研究伦理方面的培训，以及STEM职业，STEM在社会中的信息，以及研究生院的准备。联盟范围内和机构间的会议和活动将促进跨机构教师之间更大的合作研究。智力优势：这一建议将建立在最佳实践的知识基础上，并增加最佳实践的知识基础，以增加进入，成功和完成STEM学科本科学位的人数，并有能力和愿望在这些学科内攻读高级学位。这些措施包括招收STEM学生、留住STEM学生以及为他们攻读高级STEM学位做好准备。更广泛的影响：获得STEM学士学位的代表性不足的学生人数的增加将为阿肯色州提供更强大的劳动力。那些继续获得研究生学位的学生将增加进入STEM领域领导和教师职位的学生人数。学生的研究经验将增加STEM领域的创业企业数量。要求学生和教师导师访问其他联盟机构将增加教师和研究人员之间的跨机构合作。在公共宣传和K-12学校招聘中使用ARLSAMP学生学者将提供一个积极的反馈循环，以增加进入大学后攻读STEM学位的学生数量。

Arkansas Alliance for Minority Participation (ARLSAMP) in STEM CareersExecutive Summary (Intellectual Merit and Broader Impact)The Arkansas Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (ARLSAMP) is a collaborative alliance of nine institutions, including two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and two two-year institutions, which has a goal of increasing the pool of baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degree graduates in STEM disciplines in Arkansas? workforce. Through ARLSAMP, for the first time, there is an assembly and networking of a representative number of public and private institutions mobilized by the embracement of a common need to produce more well-qualified STEM graduates; guided by a shared vision to help make Arkansas, the region, and the nation a more competitive force in the sciences.The activities of the alliance will address recruitment (both from secondary schools and from two-year colleges). A Pre-Freshmen an ARLSAMP Summer Institute will help to prepare first semester freshmen to successfully navigate the transition to college level coursework. A review of bottleneck courses will result in interventions to prevent students from being removed from the STEM pipeline at these critical points. Summer and academic year research in faculty laboratories will provide extracurricular involvement in research at the forefront of STEM. Mentoring programs will provide for peer mentoring (upper-level student to lower-level student) as well as faculty mentoring. A STEM seminar series will provide training in research ethics, as well as information on STEM careers, STEM in society, and preparation for Graduate School. Alliance-wide and inter-institutional conferences and activities will foster greater collaborative research among faculty across institutions.Intellectual Merit: This proposal will build upon and add to the knowledge base of best practices for increasing the number of underrepresented minorities entering, succeeding in, and completing undergraduate degrees in STEM disciplines with the ability and desire to pursue advanced degrees within these disciplines. These will include practices for recruiting students to STEM, retaining students in STEM, and preparing them for pursuing advanced STEM degrees.Broader Impacts: The increase in the number of underrepresented students receiving baccalaureate degrees in STEM will provide an enhanced workforce for the state of Arkansas. Those continuing to obtain graduate degrees will increase the pool of students going into leadership and faculty positions in STEM areas. The research experiences of the students will increase the number of entrepreneurial ventures in STEM areas. Requirements for students and faculty mentors to visit other alliance institutions will bring increases in cross institutional collaborations among faculty and researchers. The use of ARLSAMP student scholars in public outreach and recruiting to K-12 schools will provide a positive feedback loop to increase the number of students who pursue STEM degrees when they get to college.