Bridge to the Doctorate at UMBC 2011-2013

马里兰大学系统（USM）路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）将在其成功培训和教育通往博士学位（BD）研究员的基础上，为第六个队列提出一个项目。马里兰大学巴尔的摩分校（UMBC）是高级LSAMP的领导机构，并被指定为2011-2013年的BD站点。UMBC致力于在科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域招募，留住，教育和培训代表性不足的学生，并为他们在STEM劳动力中取得成功做好准备。UMBC于2005年迎来了第一批BD研究员。其中3人在2010-2011年期间获得博士学位。这一群体中的其他人正在坚持攻读博士学位（全职和兼职），或者已经获得硕士学位，并在计划返回攻读博士学位时与UMBC的BD项目保持联系。(一名2005年度BD Fellow是犹他大学的博士候选人，另一名将开始攻读博士学位。2011年秋季在摩根州立大学（Morgan State University）攻读硕士学位。)USM在UMBC和马里兰大学帕克分校都有四个额外的研究员队伍。研究员们在BD培训、专业发展和社区建设活动中相互联系。USM lsamp于1995年开始，一直警惕增加STEM学科中未被充分代表的少数民族学士学位获得者的数量。该奖项将使我们能够加强我们的本科和研究生管道，并在这些学科内创建一个扩大的学者社区。2011-2013年度学生的计划包括在学生入学第一周开始的活动。该计划包括广泛的定向活动，如为期两天的夏季成功学院，研究生院定向，以及与STEM部门教员的多日定向。在第一年，研究员将被分配一名同伴导师；申请NSF研究生研究奖学金；接受公开演讲培训；并完成一份30-50页的研究准备项目，该项目将要求他们与USM以外大学的其他研究生、教师和BD研究员建立联系。在这两年中，BD研究员将参加每两周的BD会议，每月参加研究生成功研讨会，并与其他研究生和教师一起参加学术和专业发展研讨会。到第二年年底，BD研究员将学习并实施实现学术卓越的方法，完成硕士学位学分或攻读博士学位的早期资格里程碑（根据院系不同），完成10小时的UMBC“培训教授”模块，在两次研究会议上发表演讲，参加许多与教师交流的机会，参加论文完成和论文提案规划的研讨会。并制定了坚持完成博士学位的计划。

The University System of Maryland (USM) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) willbuild upon its success of training and educating Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Fellows by proposinga program for a sixth cohort. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is the lead institutionof a senior-level LSAMP and has been designated as the BD site for 2011-2013. UMBC is dedicated torecruiting, retaining, educating, and training underrepresented students in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, and preparing them for success in the STEM workforce.UMBC welcomed its first cohort of BD Fellows in 2005. Three of those Fellows completed Ph.D.s during2010-2011. Others from that cohort are persisting in doctoral programs (full-time and part-time) or havereceived M.S. degrees and remain in touch with UMBC's BD Program as they plan to return for thedoctorate. (One 2005 BD Fellow is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Utah, and another will begin theD.Eng. program at Morgan State University in fall 2011.) The USM has four additional cohorts of fellowson both the UMBC and the University of Maryland, College Park campuses. The Fellows connect withone another at BD training, professional development, and community building events. The USM LSAMPbegan in 1995 and has been vigilant about increasing the number of underrepresented minoritybaccalaureate degree recipients in STEM disciplines. The BD award will enable us to strengthen both ourundergraduate and graduate pipelines and create an expanded community of scholars within thesedisciplines.Plans for the 2011-2013 cohort include activities that will begin during the fellows' first week on campus.The program includes extensive orientation activities such as a 2-day Summer Success Institute, theGraduate School Orientation, and multi-day orientations with faculty within the STEM departments. In thefirst year, the Fellows will be assigned a Peer Mentor; apply for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship;receive training in public speaking; and complete a 30-50 page research preparation project that willrequire them to network with other graduate students, faculty, and BD Fellows at universities outside ofthe USM. Throughout the two years, BD Fellows will participate in bi-weekly BD meetings, attendmonthly Graduate Student Success Seminars, and participate in academic and professional developmentseminars with other graduate students and faculty. By the end of the second year, the BD Fellows willhave learned and implemented methodologies for achieving academic excellence, completed credits forthe M.S. degree or early qualifying milestones toward the doctorate (varies according to department),completed 10 hours of UMBC's "Professors-in-Training" modules, presented at two research conferences,participated in numerous networking opportunities with faculty, attended workshops on thesis completionand dissertation proposal planning, and developed a plan for persisting to finish the doctorate.