California LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Activity

加州大学路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）项目通过努力显著增加成功完成科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科高质量学位课程的学生人数，帮助大学和学院实现STEM劳动力多样化。特别强调通过创新的招聘和保留策略和经验来改变STEM教育，以支持历史上在STEM学科中代表性不足的群体：非裔美国人、阿拉斯加原住民、美洲印第安人、西班牙裔美国人、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。通往博士学位的桥梁（BD）活动为STEM项目的学士学位后学习提供支持，从而获得STEM博士学位。加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）是2014-2016年（队列IX） BD项目的主办网站，该项目支持来自全国LSAMP校区的12名代表性不足的少数族裔（URM） STEM博士研究生。BD活动提供特定STEM学科的广泛培训，以及促进科学界同侪指导和领导的专业发展和指导。学生将获得严格的学术和研究培训经验，以支持博士学位的完成，并过渡到学术界和工业界的竞争职业。该项目加强了现有LSAMP本科项目与加州大学洛杉矶分校之间的联系。该计划的目标是永久增加进入加州大学洛杉矶分校博士课程的urm的数量。该活动提供了一套强大的研究生发展机会，促进STEM社区的指导和领导力。BD学生参与指导CAMP本科生和转校生，以增加对加州大学洛杉矶分校URM STEM专业的兴趣和保留。与美国国家科学基金会研究生教育和教授联盟（AGEP）规划和机构资源的联系为参与者提供为期两年的项目支持。招聘和保留研究生研究人员的最佳做法是在从以前的LSAMP BD主办网站吸取教训的基础上实施和建立的。加州大学洛杉矶分校的研究成果、经验教训和活动的影响通过出版物和在国家会议上的演讲，以及与美国国家科学基金会下属的倡议和多样性联盟的数据共享过程进行传播。迄今为止，加州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（CAMP）通往博士学位的桥梁活动已经支持了93名未被充分代表的少数民族（URM）研究生在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科。BD活动的长期影响反映在美国的STEM劳动力中，无论是在学术界还是在工业研发领域。通过培养未来的教授和科学劳动力，少数民族在科学和工程领域的知名度增加了附加值，增加了代表性，并为下一代提供了榜样和动力。

University of CaliforniaThe Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the STEM workforce through their efforts at significantly increasing the numbers of students successfully completing high quality degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Particular emphasis is placed on transforming STEM education through innovative recruitment and retention strategies and experiences in support of groups historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines: African-Americans, Alaskan Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. The Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Activity provides support for postbaccalaureate studies in STEM programs leading to the STEM doctoral degree.The University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) is the host site for the 2014-2016 (Cohort IX) BD program that supports a graduate student cohort of 12 underrepresented minority (URM) STEM Ph.D. students from LSAMP campuses across the nation. The BD Activity provides extensive training in specific STEM disciplines as well as professional development and guidance that promote peer mentoring and leadership in the scientific community. Students receive rigorous academic and research training experiences that support completion of the Ph.D. and the transition to a competitive career in academia and industry.This project strengthens the connections between existing LSAMP undergraduate programs and UCLA?s STEM graduate programs with the goal of permanently increasing the number of URMs in the pipeline leading to doctoral programs at UCLA. The activity provides a robust set of graduate student development opportunities that promote mentoring and leadership in STEM communities. The BD students are engaged in mentoring CAMP undergraduates and transfer students to increase excitement and retention in URM STEM majors at UCLA. Linkages to the NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) programming and institutional resources provides support for the participants following the two-year project support.Best practices for recruitment and retention of graduate student researchers are implemented and built upon lessons learned from previous LSAMP BD host sites. The UCLA BD findings, lessons learned, and impact of the activities are disseminated through publications and presentations at national meetings, and data sharing processes with NSF-affiliated initiatives and diversity consortiums. To date, the California Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate activity has supported 93 underrepresented minority (URM) graduate students in in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics [STEM] disciplines.The long-term impact of the BD activity is reflected in America's STEM workforce,both in academia and in industrial research and development. By nurturing the futureprofessoriate, as well as the scientific workforce, the value added is seen in thevisibility of minorities in science and engineering, increasing representation andproviding role models and motivation for the next generation.