LA-BRIDGE: Louisiana Broadening Resources for Increasing Diversity in Graduate Education at Louisiana State University

美国人口普查局报告称，非洲裔、西班牙裔和美洲原住民约占美国人口的30%，但美国只有16%的科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）本科学位和不到3%的STEM博士学位授予了这些群体的学生！是在国内吗？支持测试策略的创新，以增加在STEM学科中代表性不足的成功群体，这是我们的最大利益，不仅仅是出于公平或社会正义的原因，而是因为这些学生在满足当今和未来的STEM劳动力需求方面具有未开发的潜力。提议的，？bd -队列5 ？LA-BRIDGE：路易斯安那州扩大资源，增加研究生教育的多样性？代表了在博士层面建立人力资源资本的变革性和战略性制度方法。在这项努力中，路易斯安那州立大学（LSU），州政府支持的卡内基广泛研究机构，国家指定的赠地和赠地机构，将作为桥梁机构。该项目在路易斯·斯托克斯（LS）路易斯安那州少数民族参与联盟（LAMP）的高级学院和大学之间开展了强有力的机构间合作；路易斯安那州立大学学术事务办公室、战略计划办公室、研究和经济发展办公室以及路易斯安那州立大学学术成功中心之间的机构内合作；路易斯安那州立大学与格勒诺布尔的法国替代能源和原子能委员会（CEA Grenoble）之间的国际合作。LA-BRIDGE的愿景是创建一个成功的模式，以提高少数民族学生在博士水平上的持久性和全球竞争力，这是一个具有良好测试策略的有效模式，可以在全国范围内采用。LA-BRIDGE的目标是LS-LAMP高级联盟目标的合理延伸：(a)提高在桥梁机构攻读博士学位的少数族裔stem学生的质量和数量；(b)提高少数族裔STEM博士生的留校毕业率；(c)研究提高stem少数族裔博士比例的国家模式。LAMP-BD的目标是：(1)提供系统的指导，包括有效的教师对学生/学生对学生的互动，共同努力增加在STEM领域获得博士学位的少数民族人数；(2)促进学术支持结构，增加学生？适应严格的博士研究；(3)让少数族裔接触到国际研究经验，为他们长期参与全球STEM研究事业做好准备；(4)促进、指导和支持这些博士学位持有人转变为stem研究人员，重点是教授；(5)通过扩大和制度化系统性指导，以及在全州范围内加强研究基础设施和活动，实现自我可持续发展。智力优势：LA-BRIDGE将在设计有效的LS-LAMP机构间和多国联盟方面提供战略性和变革性的领导，以提高博士生的stem教育质量。该项目将培养和测试系统的指导策略，旨在提高少数民族学生的入学率和博士学位的毕业率。此外，该项目将探索模型，以提高LSAMP学生的能力，使他们在全球环境中更有效地研究。师徒模式及其相关活动的科学基础，以及系统师徒和教育研究方面的出版物，有助于开发研究生教育和专业发展的最佳实践。此外，由bd学者进行的研究将有助于跨越STEM学科的科学和技术创新。更广泛的影响：LA-BRIDGE将增加少数族裔学生获得STEM博士学位的机会。突出的项目影响是a)来自代表性不足的少数民族社区的高质量博士级研究人员数量的增加，他们将在STEM学术，工业和政府企业中从事研究事业；B)由此对更合格和多样化的劳动力的贡献和发展；C)广泛传播为研究生学习和专业发展提供系统辅导的最佳做法；d)机构研究生教育和研究基础设施的显著加强。此外，该项目将提高研究生在国际研究环境中茁壮成长的能力，从而造福社会。

The US Census Bureau reports that African, Hispanic, and Native Americans comprise some30% of the US population, however only 16% of the undergraduate science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) degrees and less than 3% of the doctoral STEM degrees produced within the US areawarded to students from these groups! It is in the nation?s best interest to support innovations that teststrategies to increase the success groups underrepresented in the STEM disciplines, not simply for reasonsof equity or social justice, but because these students are an untapped potential in fulfilling the STEMworkforce needs of today and tomorrow.The proposed, ?BD-Cohort 5 ? LA-BRIDGE: Louisiana Broadening Resources for IncreasingDiversity in Graduate Education,? represents a transformative and strategic institutional approach tobuild human resource capital at the doctoral level. In this endeavor, Louisiana State University (LSU), astate-supported Carnegie Research Extensive Institution, nationally designated as both land-grant and seagrant,will serve as the Bridging Institution. The project features strong inter-institutional collaborationsbetween colleges and universities throughout the Senior Level Louis Stokes (LS) Louisiana Alliance forMinority Participation (LAMP); intra-institutional collaborations between the LSU Offices of AcademicAffairs, Strategic Initiatives, and Research and Economic Development as well as the LSU Center forAcademic Success; and international collaborations between LSU and the French Alternative Energiesand Atomic Energy Commission in Grenoble (CEA Grenoble).The vision of LA-BRIDGE is to create a successful model to increase minority studentpersistence and global competitiveness at the doctoral level, an effective model with well-testedstrategies, which can be adopted nationwide. The goals of LA-BRIDGE are a logical extension of thegoals of the LS-LAMP Senior Alliance: (a) to increase the quality and number of minority STEMstudents pursuing doctoral degrees at the bridge institution; (b) increase the retention to graduation rate ofminority STEM PhD students; and (c) investigate a national model for increasing the share of minoritySTEM PhD holders. The objectivesof LAMP-BD are: (1) to provide systemic mentoring that includeseffective faculty-to-student/student-to-student interactions that work collectively to increase the numberof minorities earning PhD degrees in STEM fields; (2) facilitate academic support structures that increasestudents? acclimations to the rigors of doctoral study; and (3) expose minorities to international researchexperiences that prepare them for long-term scholarly engagement in the global STEM researchenterprise; (4) to promote, guide and support the transition of these PhD degree-holders into the STEMresearch workforce with emphasis on the professoriate; and (5) to achieve self-sustainability byexpanding, and institutionalizing the systemic mentoring, and research infrastructure enhancements andactivities across the state.Intellectual Merit: LA-BRIDGE will provide strategic and transformative leadership indesigning effective LS-LAMP inter-institutional and multi-national alliances that improve the quality ofSTEM education for PhD students. This project will cultivate and test systemic mentoring strategies thathave been designed to increase minority student matriculation and graduation from PhD programs.Moreover, the project will explore models to enhance the ability of LSAMP students to be more effectiveresearchers in a global environment. The scientific basis of the mentoring model and its related activities,the publication in system mentoring and educational research, lend themselves to the development of bestpractices for graduate education and professional development. Further, the research to be conducted byBD scholars will contribute to scientific and technological innovations spanning the STEM disciplines.Broader Impact: LA-BRIDGE will increase minority student access to STEM PhDs. The salientproject impacts are a) the increase in the number of high quality PhD level researchers fromunderrepresented minority communities who will pursue research careers in the STEM academic,industrial, and governmental enterprise; b) the consequent contribution to and the development of a morequalified and diversified workforce; c) the wide-spread dissemination of the best practices of systemmentoring for graduate studies and professional development; and d) the significant enhancement ofinstitutional graduate education and research infrastructure. Further, this project will benefit society byenhancing the ability of its graduate students to thrive in an international research environment.