Bridge to the Doctorate: 2014-2016 UT Arlington Cohort

德克萨斯大学系统路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟（LSAMP）将在德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校（UTA）举办一个通往博士课程（BD）的桥梁项目。2014-2016年UTA BD计划旨在招募和支持12名高素质的LSAMP机构校友，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）领域取得成功。该项目将合作并利用扩大参与研究所（IBP）和研究、教学和学习整合中心（CIRTL）的资源。在过去成功的基础上，UTA的BD计划将采取一系列干预策略，重点是提高教学技能，提供结构化指导和近同伴指导，鼓励坚持不懈，提供网络/社区建设以及专业发展机会。建议的项目将导致加强和发现其他有效的策略，以使未被充分代表的群体的研究生成功，这可能适用于其他大学和学院。此外，它将有助于实现国家目标，即增加在STEM学科中历史上代表性不足的具有博士学位的有才华的学生的数量，以及来自代表性不足群体的能够有效地教授和指导未来STEM学生的STEM教师的数量。UTA的LSAMP BD领导团队在招聘、指导、保留和毕业STEM学科中历史上代表性不足的学生方面有着良好的记录。领导团队将与UT阿灵顿研究生研究办公室，学术顾问和教师导师密切合作，为BD研究员提供多层次的支持网络。UT阿灵顿大学研究生研究办公室提供各种学生支持活动和项目，包括负责任的研究行为、研究生学习目标设定、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与专业发展，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）在完成博士论文要求的同时，从事高质量的、由教师指导的研究；（iii）接受ON-TRAC（教学即研究进步和协作组织网络）计划的培训，这是中国CIRTL提供的一项新的STEM教学卓越计划。IBP是一个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，它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专业人员之间进行跨学科的非正式互动。

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.