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

德雷克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，请求为一项Cohort X计划提供为期两年的博士学位桥(BTD)资助，以扩大和加强该联盟持续不断的努力，以大幅增加合格的非裔美国人、西班牙裔和美洲原住民(以下简称“少数族裔”)学生进入科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)研究生学习、获得博士学位和进入教授职位的人数。费城AMP代表了一个由9个机构组成的多元化联盟，这些机构包括公立和私立、2年和4年制研究和非研究、历史上的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)以及多数院校。新泽西理工学院被选为博士群体之桥X活动的东道主，原因是：1)它在联盟的BTD群体I-IX计划的成功开发和实施中发挥了关键作用，2)它在整个机构范围内致力于在本科生和研究生层面上实现STEM的多样性，费城AMP的博士之桥(Cohort 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留住这些学生，为硕士学生提供进入他们选择的STEM专业的高度重视的博士项目的完全资格，并提供全额资金支持；(3)使硕士学生能够被录取并顺利过渡到博士项目；以及(4)监督所有通过博士完成进入教授和其他领域的学生的进步。智力方面的优点包括管理专业知识和在STEM领域的知识和理解的提高。拟议的博士学位之桥(Cohort X)计划建立在坚实的合作伙伴关系、资源、有效实践和经验的基础上，这些合作伙伴关系、资源、有效实践和经验来自于在当前费城AMP和博士之桥(BTD)Cohort I-IX计划下，十七(17)年来专注于少数族裔学生成就的合作、合作和共同努力。特别是，这一经验帮助联盟的STEM研究生课程相当成熟，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Cohort X计划中继续下去，以一种强大和创新的方式利用NSF的投资。拟议的努力建立在现有基础设施的基础上，以推动代表人数不足的少数族裔学生参与最高级别的工程和科学。费城AMP致力于推动机构、部门和组织文化与实践的变革，以实现少数族裔学生在STEM学科的招生、留住和学位获得方面的可持续和显著增长。

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.