LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate: Greater Philadelphia Region Cohort XIV Project - University of Delaware

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。特拉华大学（UD）隶属于美国国家科学基金会（NSF）指定的刺激竞争性研究实验项目（EPSCoR），是德雷塞尔大学领导下的大费城路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟2016-2018年BD项目的主办单位。该项目支持来自全国各地LSAMP校区的12名未被充分代表的少数族裔（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。在项目期间及之后，特拉特拉州大学的BD项目旨在提高来自代表性不足群体的学生完成STEM博士学位并进入教授学位的数量和质量。项目实施的评估研究有可能解决以下问题：(1)超越博士资助项目活动的桥梁，特定的STEM研究生部门使用了哪些不同的方法，为什么某些方法比其他方法更有效地提高特定STEM研究生部门培养更容易合格的少数族裔STEM博士学位获得者的能力？(2)将研究员的研究指导教师作为一个集体定期审查个别研究员的学术生产力对参与者的指导经历及其完成博士学位的进展有何影响？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。

The 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 under-represented 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 Delaware (UD), within a National Science Foundation (NSF) designated Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), is the host site for the 2016-2018 BD program for the Greater Philadelphia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation under the leadership of Drexel University. The program 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. Over the duration of the project and beyond, the BD program at UD serves to increase the number and quality of students from underrepresented groups completing STEM Ph.D. degrees and entering the professoriate. Evaluation research from the project's implementation has the potential to address the following questions: (1) Beyond Bridge to the Doctorate funded program activities, what are the different methods being used by specific graduate STEM departments and why are certain ones more effective than others in increasing the capacity of specific graduate STEM departments to produce more readily well-qualified underrepresented minority doctoral STEM degree recipients? (2) How will engaging the faculty research advisors of the fellows as a collective group on a regular basis to review scholarly productivity of the individual fellows have an impact on the mentoring experience of the participants and their progression to doctoral completion?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 future professoriate, as well as the scientific workforce, the value added is seen in the visibility of minorities in science and engineering, increasing representation and providing role models and motivation for the next generation.