Greater Philadelphia Region LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (Cohort XI) Program

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Drexel University, as a representative of the Greater Philadelphia Region Louis Stokes Alliance forMinority Participation (Philadelphia AMP), requests Bridge to the Doctorate funding for a two-yearperiod for a Cohort XI program, to expand and intensify the consortium's on-going efforts to substantiallyincrease the number of qualified African American, Hispanic and Native American (hereafter referred toas "minority") students entering graduate study in science, technology, engineering and mathematics(STEM), attaining doctoral degrees, and moving into the professoriate. The Philadelphia AMP representsa diverse alliance of nine institutions consisting of public and private, 2- and 4-year research and nonresearch,Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and majority institutions.The goals of Philadelphia AMP's Bridge to the Doctorate (Cohort XI) project are to: (1) recruit twelvestudents into Master's or Ph.D. degree programs at Drexel University; (2) retain these students through thecompletion of the Master's or Ph.D. program, providing the Master?s students with full qualifications foradmission into a highly regarded Ph.D. program in their chosen STEM specialty with full financialsupport; (3) enable the Master's student' admission and smooth transition into a Ph.D. program; and (4)monitor all student progress through Ph.D. completion into the professoriate and beyond. We aim to have100% of these students successfully complete their graduate study and enter a STEM career, with manyprogressing into the professoriate at institutions of higher education.