Bridge to the Doctorate: 2014-2016 UT Arlington Cohort

德克萨斯大学系统路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）将在德克萨斯大学阿灵顿（UTA）举办博士学位课程（BD）。2014-2016年UTA BD计划旨在招募和支持LSAMP机构的12名高素质校友，他们致力于发展获得博士学位所需的必要技能和知识，并在科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）方面取得成功。该计划将合作，并利用研究所的资源扩大参与（IBP）和中心的研究，教学和学习（CIRTL）的整合。UTA的BD计划，建立在过去的成功，将采取一系列干预战略，重点是提高教学技能，提供结构化的辅导和近同行辅导，鼓励坚持，并提供网络/社区建设以及专业发展机会。拟议的计划将导致增强和发现其他有效的策略，为研究生的代表性不足的群体，这可能适用于其他大学和学院的成功。此外，它将有助于国家的目标，即增加在STEM学科中历史上代表性不足的有才华的学生人数。学位和来自代表性不足群体的STEM教师人数，他们可以有效地教授和指导未来的STEM学生。UTA的LSAMP BD领导团队在招聘，指导，保留和毕业学生方面有着良好的记录，这些学生在STEM学科中的代表性历来不足。领导团队将与UT阿灵顿研究生办公室，学术顾问和教师导师密切合作，为BD研究员提供多层支持网络。UT阿灵顿的研究生办公室提供各种学生支持活动和编程，包括研究的负责任行为，研究生学习的目标设定，指导，专业沟通，获得内部和外部资金以及论文准备等主题。预计所有BD研究员将在入学的第一年开始参加专业发展，学术准备和研究活动。 BD研究员将：（i）参加一系列1学分的面对面和在线研究生课程，旨在帮助他们顺利完成博士学业，（ii）在完成博士学位的同时从事高质量的教师指导研究。论文要求，以及（iii）接受ON-TRAC（教学作为研究进步和协作组织网络）计划的培训，这是CIRTL提供的一个新的STEM教学卓越计划。IBP是一家在开发和管理虚拟社区方面拥有十多年经验的非营利组织，将协助领导团队开发BD虚拟社区。这个虚拟平台将允许来自美国各地的教师，BD研究员和STEM专业人员之间的跨学科非正式互动。

The University of Texas System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) will host a Bridge to the Doctorate Program (BD) at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). The 2014-2016 UTA BD program is designed to recruit and support a cohort of twelve highly qualified alumni of LSAMP institutions who are committed to developing the necessary skills and knowledge needed to earn doctoral degrees and achieve successful careers in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM). The program will collaborate and leverage the resources of the Institute for Broadening Participation (IBP) and the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL). UTA's BD Program, building on past successes, will undertake a series of intervention strategies that are focused on enhancing teaching skills, offering structured mentoring and near peer mentoring, encouraging persistence, and providing networking/community building as well as professional development opportunities. The proposed program will lead to the enhancement of and discovery of additional effective strategies for graduate student success of underrepresented groups, which may be applicable to other universities and colleges. Moreover, it will contribute to the national goal of increasing the numbers of talented students historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines with Ph.D. degrees and the numbers of STEM faculty from underrepresented groups who can effectively teach and mentor future STEM students. UTA's LSAMP BD leadership team has a demonstrated track-record of recruiting, mentoring, retaining, and graduating students historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines. The leadership team will work closely with the UT Arlington Office of Graduate Studies, academic advisors, and faculty mentors to provide a multi-layered network of support to the BD Fellows. UT Arlington's Office of Graduate Studies offer a variety of student support activities and programming that include topics such as responsible conduct of research, goal setting in graduate study, mentoring, professional communications, obtaining internal and external funding, and dissertation preparation. It is expected that all BD Fellows will participate in professional development, academic preparation, and research activities beginning their first year of enrollment. BD Fellows will: (i) attend a series of 1-credit hour face-to-face and online graduate courses designed to assist in the successful completion of their doctoral studies, (ii) engage in high-quality, faculty-mentored research while fulfilling Ph.D. dissertation requirements, and (iii) receive training in the ON-TRAC (Organizational Network for Teaching-as-Research Advancement and Collaboration) program, a new STEM teaching excellence program offered by CIRTL. IBP, a non-profit organization with more than ten years of experience in developing and managing virtual communities, will assist the leadership team in developing a BD virtual community. This virtual platform will allow for interdisciplinary informal interactions between faculty, BD Fellows, and STEM professionals from across the United States.