Alabama LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate Auburn U

亚拉巴马路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）是NSF高级联盟，拥有独特的基础设施，可以实施博士学位（BD）计划。 奥本大学是2012-2014年亚拉巴马LSAMP BD网站。 该大学成立于1856年，是一个主要的国家援助，综合性，研究I，赠地机构，具有悠久的学术卓越和研究生教育的传统。 12名LSAMP学生将从亚拉巴马LSAMP合作伙伴和全国其他LSAMP机构中选出，参加2012年秋季学期开始的亚拉巴马BD项目。 这些新的BD学生将有老BD学生提供同行咨询和网络的机会。 选定的BD参与者将被分配教师导师，并有机会参加至少一个专业的科学会议，每年。 此外，BD参与者将被要求申请NSF研究生奖学金，并参加专门为该计划设计的关于研究生院预科的专题研讨会。 已经制定了一项计划，将大量新入学的LSAMP学生正式连接到博士学位课程，并将跟踪参与者。该计划将在2012-2013学年第一学期结束时进行评估，并在第二年年底再次进行评估。 此外，评估信息将被转发到城市研究所的一般BD计划审查。 评估的目的是提供文件的指定网站在保留，毕业，并把大量的少数民族毕业生进入博士学位课程的性能。该项目是在推进科学，技术，工程和数学知识的代表性不足的少数民族学生的重要一步。 这些学生与科学和工程学院合作所获得的经验将使他们能够获得出色的职业发展。 该项目扩大了代表性不足群体对研究生教育的参与，真实的前景是增加这些群体获得STEM博士学位和进入教授职位的人数。 本项目的发现和理解将通过国家BD出版物传播到其他专注于研究生教育的机构和项目。

The Alabama Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) is a NSF Senior-Level Alliance and has an infrastructure that is uniquely positioned to implement a Bridge to the Doctorate (BD)program. Auburn University is the Alabama LSAMP BD site for 2012-2014. The University was established in 1856 and is a major state-assisted, comprehensive, Research I, land-grant institution with a long tradition of academic excellence and graduate education. Twelve LSAMP students will be selected from Alabama LSAMP partners and other LSAMP institutions across the nation to participate in the Alabama BD program beginning with the fall semester 2012. These new BD students will have the older BD students to provide peer consultations and networking opportunities. Selected BD participants will be assigned faculty mentors and have the opportunity to attend at least one professional scientific meeting each year. In addition, BD participants will be required to apply for an NSF Graduate Fellowship and attend special topic seminars regarding graduate school matriculation designed specifically for the program. A plan for formally connecting a significant number of newly matriculated LSAMP students to doctoral degree programs has been developed and participants will be tracked. The program will be evaluated at the end of the first semester of the 2012-2013 academic year and again at the end of the second year. Further, evaluation information will be forwarded to the Urban Institute for the general BD program review. The evaluation is designed to provide documentation of the performance of the designated site in retaining, graduating, and placing significant numbers of its minority graduates into doctoral-degree programs.The project is an important step in advancing the knowledge of underrepresented minority students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The experiences gained by these students working with science and engineering faculty will position them for excellent career advancement. The project broadens participation of underrepresented groups in graduate education with the real prospect of increasing the number of such groups in attaining doctoral degrees in STEM and entering the professoriate. Discovery and understanding resulting from this project will be disseminated via a national BD publication to other institutions and programs focusing on graduate education.