Texas A&M University System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TAMUS LSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate (BTD) Cohort X (2014-2016) Program

德克萨斯农工大学系统路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟（TAMUS LSAMP）提出的队列X项目的主要目标是增加在科学、技术、工程或数学（STEM）学科中历史上代表性不足的群体（urg）的博士人数。这个BTD项目的主要目标之一是培养STEM领域的研究员，使他们具备必要的学术和领导技能，从而有最大的机会在下一个阶段取得成功。在高等教育方面，美国学院和大学中拉美裔和非裔美国教师和管理人员的数量并不能代表全国人口。不幸的是，很少有科学和工程方面的研究生课程能够培养博士毕业生在他们所选择的职业中晋升并成功担任领导职位所需要的领导技能。TAMUS LSAMP BTD的广泛意义在于，通过在研究生层面提供机会和活动，提高这些研究生的教育和职业水平，增加代表性不足群体对STEM的参与。德克萨斯农工大学（TAMU）的目标是通过培养他们的准备和鼓励他们完成STEM博士学位的渴望，并为他们成为跨学科研究和学术界的领导者做好准备，培养12名来自德克萨斯农工大学（BTD）的首次研究生的学术成功。实施该计划的目标包括(1)在完成BTD计划后，用资金保留研究员进入博士课程，(2)准备迎接完成博士课程学习和高等教育中可能的学术生涯的挑战，以及(3)在完成博士课程学习后，作为年轻STEM专业人员取得成功所必需的领导技能发展。这将通过TAMU的理学院（COS）、工程学院（COE）、农业与生命科学学院（coal）和地球科学学院（COG）之间的合作来实现。TAMU的BTD项目将为大学内不同学科的研究生创建一个有凝聚力的社区。具有不同STEM学科和共同目标的BTD研究员将彼此共享协调的资源和智力丰富的小组活动，并与TAMU的更多STEM研究生群体共享，以使所有人受益。

The primary aim of the proposed Cohort X of the Texas A&M University System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TAMUS LSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate (BTD) program is to increase the pool of PhDs from groups historically underrepresented (URGs) in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) disciplines. One of the major objectives of this BTD program is to train fellows in STEM fields with the academic and leadership skills necessary for the highest chance of success at the next level. In higher education, the number of Hispanic and African-American faculty and administrators at U.S. colleges and universities is not representative of the nation's population. Unfortunately, there are few graduate programs in the sciences and engineering that incorporate the development of leadership skills that doctoral graduates will need to ascend to and succeed in positions of leadership in the professions that they choose. The broad significance of TAMUS LSAMP BTD is to increase participation of underrepresented groups in STEM by providing opportunities and activities at the graduate level that lead to educational and career enhancements of these graduate students. Texas A&M University's (TAMU's) goal is to foster academic success in a cohort of twelve first-time graduate students from URGs, BTD Fellows, by developing their readiness and encouraging eagerness to complete STEM doctoral degrees and by preparing them to take their place as leaders in interdisciplinary research and in academia. Objectives to carry out the program's goals include (1) retention of Fellows into doctoral programs with funding after completion of the BTD program, (2) preparation to meet the challenges of completing doctoral programs of study and for possible academic careers in higher education, and (3) leadership skill development necessary to succeed as young STEM professionals upon completion of doctoral programs of study. This will be achieved through collaborations among the College of Science (COS), College of Engineering (COE), the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (COALS), and the College of Geosciences (COG) at TAMU. TAMU's BTD program will create a cohesive community of graduate students across different disciplines within the university. The BTD Fellows, with differing STEM disciplines and a common purpose, will share coordinated resources and intellectually enriching group activities with each other, and also with the larger population of STEM graduate students at TAMU, to the benefit of all.