2011 SUNY LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate Cohort at Binghamton University

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The State University of New York (SUNY) Louis Stokes Alliance for MinorityParticipation (SUNY LSAMP), under the leadership of SUNY-Stony Brook, will support12 additional post-baccalaureate students during the 2011-2013 Bridge to the Doctorate(BD) program at the SUNY-Binghamton. This program builds on previous programefforts that have not only significantly added to the graduate enrollment and mastersand doctoral degrees to students from underreprested minority (UREP) populations buthave also led to important changes in the culture and practice of STEM education inways that not only help UREP students but all graduate STEM students.The project adds to current efforts by SUNY LSAMP to build research capacity in STEMeducation in the area of graduate education. The lessons learned from the study of theBridge to the Doctorate Program will be put into the context of broader issues ofsystemic change and disseminated to a broad national audience.Using the lessons learned from this project, the alliance expects to continue to developand refine strategies that will increase the recruitment and retention of graduatestudents and further diversify graduate education departments. The strategy has thepotenital to increase the number of UREP STEM students who successfully completedoctoral degrees in STEM disciplines and make changes in STEM departmental cultureand practice.