Greater Philadelphia Region LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (Cohort X) Project

德雷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，要求为X队列项目提供为期两年的博士之桥（BTD）资助，以扩大和加强该联盟正在进行的努力，大幅增加合格的非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和印第安人（以下简称“少数族裔”）学生进入科学、技术研究生学习的人数。工程和数学（STEM），获得博士学位，并向教授迈进。费城黑人学院代表了一个由9个机构组成的多元化联盟，包括公立和私立、2年制和4年制研究型和非研究型、传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）以及大多数机构。新泽西理工学院被选中主办“通往博士队列X”活动，因为：1)它在联盟的BTD队列I-IX项目的成功开发和实施中发挥了关键作用；2)它在本科和研究生阶段对STEM多样性的承诺；3)它在研究企业中的进步。费城AMP的博士之桥（队列X）项目的目标是：(1)招收12名学生进入新泽西理工学院的硕士或博士学位课程；(2)通过完成硕士或博士课程保留这些学生，为硕士生提供进入其所选stem专业的备受尊敬的博士课程的全部资格，并提供全额资助；(3)使硕士生顺利入学并顺利过渡到博士课程；(4)监督所有学生从完成博士学位到教授学位甚至更高的学习进度。智力优势包括管理专长和推进STEM领域的知识和理解。拟议的博士之桥项目建立在坚实的伙伴关系、资源、有效的实践和经验基础上，这些经验来自17年的合作、合作和共同努力，重点关注当前费城AMP和博士之桥I-IX项目下少数民族学生的成就。特别是，这一经历帮助联盟的STEM研究生项目相当成熟，使所有STEM研究生受益，而不仅仅是BTD研究员。这种协同效应将在拟议的队列X项目中继续下去，以一种强大而创新的方式利用NSF的投资。拟议的努力建立在现有基础设施的基础上，以促进代表性不足的少数民族学生参与最高级别的工程和科学。费城AMP致力于促进机构，部门和组织文化和实践的变革，以实现少数民族学生在STEM学科的招聘，保留和学位获得方面的可持续和显着增长。

Drexel University, as a representative of the Greater Philadelphia Region Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (Philadelphia AMP), requests Bridge to the Doctorate (BTD) funding for a two-year period for a Cohort X 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 New Jersey Institute of Technology has been selected to host the Bridge to the Doctorate Cohort X activities because of: 1) the key role it has played in the successful development and implementation of the Alliance's BTD Cohort I-IX programs, 2) its institution-wide commitment to diversity in STEM at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, and 3) its advancements in the research enterprise.The goals of Philadelphia AMP's Bridge to the Doctorate (Cohort X) project are to: (1) recruit twelve students into Master's or PhD degree programs at the New Jersey Institute of Technology; (2) retain these students through the completion of the Master's or PhD program, providing the Master's students with full qualifications for admission into a highly regarded PhD program in their chosen STEMspecialty with full financial support; (3) enable the Master's students' admission and smooth transition into a PhD program; and (4) monitor all student progress through PhD 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 X) program rests on a solid foundation of partnerships, resources, effective practices and experiences derived from seventeen (17) 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-IX 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. This synergy, which would continue with the proposed Cohort X program, leverages NSF's investment in a powerful and innovative way. The proposed effort builds upon the existing infrastructure to advance underrepresented minority students into participation in engineering and the sciences at the highest levels. Philadelphia AMP has centered its efforts on catalyzing changes in institutional, departmental, and organizational culture and practices in order to achieve sustainable and significant increases in recruitment, retention, and degree attainment in STEM disciplines for minority students.