Greater Philadelphia Region LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (Cohort IX) Project at the University of Delaware

德雷克塞尔大学作为大费城地区路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟(Philadelphia AMP)的代表，请求为第九代研究计划提供为期两年的博士资助，以扩大和加强该联盟？S不断努力，大幅增加合格的非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和美洲原住民(以下简称“少数族裔”)学生进入科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)研究生学习，获得博士学位，并进入教授职位。费城AMP代表了一个由9所机构组成的多元化联盟，这些机构包括公立和私立、2年和4年制研究和非研究、历史上的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)以及多数院校。特拉华大学被选为博士学位之桥(BTD)第九批活动的主办方是因为：1)它在联盟的成功发展和实施中发挥了关键作用？S博士学位批I-VIII计划；2)它继续努力利用多数院校和HBCU之间的关系作为博士授予机构的候选人池，3)它在整个机构范围内致力于增加本科生和研究生水平的STEM多样性，以及4)它在研究企业中的进步。费城AMP博士之桥(Cohort IX)项目的目标是：(1)招收12名学生进入特拉华大学的硕士或博士学位课程；(2)通过完成硕士或博士课程留住这些学生，为硕士学生提供进入其选择的STEM专业备受推崇的博士学位项目的完全资格，并提供全额资金支持；(3)使硕士、S学生？(4)监督所有学生从博士毕业到毕业后的所有进步。智力方面的优点包括管理专长和在STEM领域的知识和理解的提升。拟议的博士学位之桥(第九代)计划建立在坚实的合作伙伴关系、资源、有效实践和经验的基础上，这些合作伙伴关系、资源、有效实践和经验来自于当前费城AMP和博士之桥I-计划下十六(16)年的合作、合作和共同努力，重点是少数族裔学生的成就。特别是，这一经验帮助联盟的STEM研究生课程相当成熟，使所有STEM研究生受益，而不仅仅是BTD研究员。特拉华大学成功地实施了Cohort I，使他们完全有资格主办拟议的Cohort IX项目。拟议的工作建立在现有基础设施的基础上，以促进代表不足的少数族裔学生在最高级别参与工程和科学。广泛的影响包括：(1)增加AMP院校中代表不足的群体的学生的数量和质量，完成STEM硕士和博士学位并进入教授职位；(2)通过促进研究活动和传播有关用于促进保留代表不足的群体的学生的最佳做法的信息，增进STEM学科的知识；以及(3)通过在费城AMP及其他地区发展支持网络和伙伴关系，加强研究和教育的基础设施。

Drexel University, as a representative of the Greater Philadelphia Region Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (Philadelphia AMP), requests Bridge to the Doctorate funding for a two-year period for a Cohort IX program, to expand and intensify the consortium?s on-going efforts to substantially increase the number of qualified African American, Hispanic and Native American (hereafter referred to as "minority") students entering graduate study in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), attaining doctoral degrees, and moving into the professoriate. The Philadelphia AMP represents a diverse alliance of nine institutions consisting of public and private, 2- and 4-year research and non-research, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and majority institutions.The University of Delaware has been selected to host the Bridge to the Doctorate (BTD) Cohort IX activities because of: 1) the key role it has played in the successful development and implementation of the Alliance?s BTD Cohort I-VIII programs , 2) its continued efforts to leverage the relationship between Majority Institutions and HBCUs as the candidacy pool for the Ph.D. granting institutions, 3) its institution-wide commitment to increase diversity in STEM at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and 4) its advancements in the research enterprise.The goals of Philadelphia AMP's Bridge to the Doctorate (Cohort IX) project are to: (1) recruit twelve students into Master's or Ph.D. degree programs at the University of Delaware; (2) retain these students through the completion of the Master's or Ph.D. program, providing the Master's students with full qualifications for admission into a highly regarded Ph.D. program in their chosen STEM specialty with full financial support; (3) enable the Master?s students? admission and smooth transition into a Ph.D. program; and (4) monitor all student progress through Ph.D. completion into the professoriate and beyond.Intellectual Merit includes management expertise and advancing knowledge and understanding in the STEM fields. The proposed Bridge to the Doctorate (Cohort IX) Program rests on a solid foundation of partnerships, resources, effective practices and experiences derived from sixteen (16) years of collaboration, cooperation and concerted efforts focused on minority student achievement under the current Philadelphia AMP and Bridge to the Doctorate (BTD) Cohort I-VIII programs. In particular, this experience has helped the Alliance's STEM graduate programs mature considerably, to the benefit of all STEM graduate students, not just the BTD Fellows. University of Delaware's successful implementation of Cohort I makes them well qualified to host the proposed Cohort IX project. The proposed effort builds upon the existing infrastructure to advance underrepresented minority students into participation in engineering and the sciences at the highest levels.Broader Impacts include: (1) increasing the number and quality of students from underrepresented groups at AMP institutions completing STEM M.S. and Ph.D.s and entering the professoriate; (2) advancing knowledge in the STEM disciplines through the promotion of research activity and the dissemination of information about best practices used to promote the retention of students from underrepresented groups; and (3) enhancing the infrastructure for research and education through the development of support networks and partnerships within the Philadelphia AMP and beyond.