Pathways to STEM: Kansas Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation

堪萨斯州路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（KS-LSAMP）计划将在堪萨斯建立一个包括该州的联盟？堪萨斯州立大学（KSU）与堪萨斯州西南部的三所少数民族服务社区学院以及堪萨斯州堪萨斯城的一所少数民族服务私立学院合作。KS-LSAMP的一个特别重点是招募和保留STEM领域的退伍军人。堪萨斯是两个陆军基地和一个空军基地的所在地，有相当数量的URM退伍军人在合作机构就读。该项目的总体目标是在拟议项目的五年内将KSU STEM学位毕业的URM数量增加一倍。该项目的目标是：1。通过KSU与四个堪萨斯少数民族服务机构的合作伙伴关系，建立一个成功的STEM途径获得学士学位，并提供2年的可转让课程;2.共同努力为高中和大学STEM项目开发创新和文化上合适的招聘材料和活动;3.开发和评估系统的方法，以确保成功转移到KSU或其他堪萨斯4年制机构与高质量的科学和工程项目;4。开发或改进学术，课程和课外活动，影响URM学生在2年和4年合作机构和KSU的持续性和保留率，包括特别关注关键途径结合点（例如，咨询，财政援助，校园整合）;和5.提供形成性评估，以确保项目的持续改进，并进行总结性评估，以描述项目对学生和机构的结果和影响，包括开发纵向跟踪系统，以监测进展情况，特别是在途径的关键节点。

The Kansas State Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (KS-LSAMP) program will create an alliance in Kansas that includes the state?s land-grant institution, Kansas State University (KSU), in partnership with three minority-serving community colleges in the southwest part of the state, plus a minority-serving private college in urban Kansas City, KS. A particular focus of the KS-LSAMP is recruitment and retention of military veterans in STEM fields. Kansas is home to two Army bases and an Air Force installation and has a significant number of URM veterans enrolled in partner institutions. The overall goal of this project is to double the number of URMs graduating with STEM degrees from KSU within the five years of the proposed project. The objectives of the project are:1. To build a successful STEM pathway to the baccalaureate degree through the partnership of KSU with four Kansas Minority Serving Institutions with 2-year transferable programs;2. To work together to develop innovative and culturally appropriate recruitment materials and activities for high schools and college STEM programs;3. To develop and evaluate systematic approaches to assuring successful transfer to KSU or other Kansas 4-year institutions with high quality science and engineering programs;4. To develop or improve academic, curricular and co-curricular activities that impact persistence and retention of URM students at 2- and 4-year partner institutions and at KSU, including special focus on critical pathway junctures (e.g., advising, financial assistance, campus integration); and5. To provide formative evaluation to assure continuous project improvement and to conduct summative evaluation to describe the results and impact of the project on students and institutions, including development of a longitudinal tracking system to monitor progress, especially at critical junctures in the pathway.