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

LA-BRIDGE：路易斯安那州拓宽资源以增加路易斯安那州立大学研究生教育的多样性

• 批准号: 1141152
• 负责人: Diola Bagayoko
• 金额: $ 98.7万
• 依托单位: Louisiana Board of Regents
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1141152&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: LA; BRIDGE; Louisiana; Broadening; Resources

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.

美国人口普查局报告说，非洲裔，西班牙裔和美洲原住民占美国人口的30%，但只有16%的本科科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学位和不到3%的博士学位在美国产生的STEM学位授予这些群体的学生！是在国内吗？我们的最大利益是支持创新，测试战略，以增加成功的群体在STEM学科代表不足，不仅仅是出于公平或社会正义的原因，但因为这些学生是一个未开发的潜力，在满足STEM劳动力的需要，今天和明天。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，？代表了一种变革性和战略性的制度方法，以建立博士水平的人力资源资本。在这一奋进中，路易斯安那州立大学（LSU），一个国家支持的卡内基研究广泛的机构，国家指定的土地赠款和海洋赠款，将作为桥梁机构。该项目的特点是强大的机构间合作，在整个高级路易斯·斯托克斯（LS）路易斯安那州联盟少数民族参与（LAMP）的学院和大学之间;学术事务，战略举措，研究和经济发展以及路易斯安那州立大学中心学术成功的路易斯安那州立大学办公室之间的机构内合作;以及路易斯安那州立大学与法国替代能源和格勒诺布尔原子能委员会之间的国际合作（CEA格勒诺布尔）。LA-BRIDGE的愿景是创造一个成功的模式，以提高少数民族学生的持久性和全球竞争力在博士水平，一个有效的模式，经过充分测试的战略，可以在全国范围内采用。LA-BRIDGE的目标是LS-LAMP高级联盟目标的逻辑延伸：（a）提高在桥梁机构攻读博士学位的少数STEM学生的质量和数量;（B）提高少数STEM博士生的保留率;（c）调查增加少数STEM博士生比例的国家模式。LAMP-BD的目标是：（1）提供系统的指导，包括有效的教师与学生/学生与学生的互动，共同努力，以增加获得STEM领域博士学位的少数民族的数量;（2）促进学术支持结构，增加学生？（3）让少数群体接触国际研究经验，为他们在全球STEM研究企业中的长期学术参与做好准备;（4）促进，指导和支持这些博士学位持有者过渡到STEM研究工作队伍，重点是教授;以及（5）通过在全州范围内扩大和制度化系统性的指导和研究基础设施的改善和活动，实现自我可持续性。LA-BRIDGE将提供战略和变革性的领导，设计有效的LS-LAMP机构间和多国联盟，提高博士生的STEM教育质量。该项目将培养和测试旨在提高少数民族学生入学率和博士毕业率的系统性指导策略。此外，该项目将探索提高LSAMP学生在全球环境中成为更有效研究人员的能力的模式。指导模式及其相关活动的科学基础，以及在系统指导和教育研究中的出版物，有助于为研究生教育和专业发展制定最佳做法。此外，BD学者将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将增加少数民族学生获得STEM博士学位的机会。该项目的显著影响是：a）来自代表性不足的少数民族社区的高质量博士水平研究人员的数量增加，他们将在STEM学术，工业和政府企业中从事研究事业; B）因此有助于发展更合格和多样化的劳动力; c）广泛传播研究生学习和专业发展系统指导的最佳实践;以及d）院校研究生教育和研究基础设施的显着增强。此外，该项目将通过提高研究生在国际研究环境中茁壮成长的能力而造福社会。