Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities Senior LSAMP Alliance

西部扩大学生机会联盟（WAESO）路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟项目结合了30所学院和大学、7个专业组织、2个政府实验室、4个教育组织、12家公司、147个学术和支持项目、500名资源个人的努力，其中约85%是科学家、工程师和其他教师，15%是管理人员。这个新项目是一个全面的、协调的、有序的努力，利用国家科学基金资助历史上代表性不足的少数民族（URM）本科生的活动，包括大学二年级、三年级和四年级学生向研究生院的过渡，以及在地区和全国范围内应用或传播的高科技产品的开发。通过nsf资助的研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）以及LSAMP通往博士学位的桥梁（BD）计划，该联盟将通过成功的多学科教师指导网络，继续从STEM本科到STEM研究生学习的无缝过渡和学生支持，将这些学生过渡到博士学位并进入教师队伍，以及国家STEM劳动力的其他部门。基于之前多次成功地将STEM专业中历史上未被充分代表的少数族裔人数增加一倍，并在2016年之前实现类似的目标，招聘和保留活动将使联盟成为加强和多样化国家STEM劳动力的国家模式，以满足21世纪的创新需求。

The Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities (WAESO) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation project combines the efforts of an alliance of30 colleges and universities, 7 professional organizations, 2 government laboratories, 4 educationalorganizations, 12 corporations, 147 academic and support programs, 500 resource individuals,approximately 85% of whom are scientists, engineers, and other faculty, and 15% administrators. The new project is a comprehensive, concerted, sequenced effort that uses NSF funding for historically underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduate student activities, including the transition of college sophomores, juniors, and seniors toward graduate school and the development ofhigh technology products with application or dissemination both regionally and nationally. Through the NSF-funded Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) and the LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) program the alliance will continue the seamless transition and student support from STEM undergraduate to STEM graduate studies through the successful multidisciplinary facultymentoring network to transition these students to doctoral completion and into faculty ranks, as well as other sectors in the Nation's STEM workforce.Based on the multiple prior successes in doubling the number of historically underepresented minorities in STEM majors and being on pace for a similar doubling goal for this population of students by 2016, the recruitment and retention activities will result in the alliance becoming a national model for strengthening and diversifying the Nation's STEM workforce to meet 21st century innovation needs.