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

Louis Stokes少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)计划帮助大学和学院通过努力显著增加成功完成科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科的高质量学位课程的学生数量，使STEM劳动力多样化。特别强调通过创新的招聘和保留战略和经验来改变STEM教育，以支持在STEM学科中历来代表性不足的群体：非洲裔美国人、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。博士之桥(BD)活动为获得STEM博士学位的STEM项目的学士学位后学习提供支持。特拉华大学(UD)是美国国家科学基金会(NSF)指定的激发竞争研究实验计划(EPSCoR)的组成部分，是由德雷克塞尔大学领导的2016-2018年大费城路易斯·斯托克斯少数人参与联盟BD计划的举办地。该计划支持来自全国LSAMP校区的12名未被充分代表的少数族裔(URM)STEM博士生组成的研究生队列。BD活动提供特定STEM学科的广泛培训以及专业发展和指导，以促进科学界的同行指导和领导。学生接受严格的学术和研究培训经验，以支持完成博士学位并过渡到在学术界和工业界具有竞争力的职业生涯。在项目期间及以后，密歇根州立大学的BD课程有助于提高来自代表性不足群体的学生数量和质量，这些学生完成STEM博士学位并进入教授职位。该项目实施的评估研究有可能解决以下问题：(1)超越桥梁到博士资助的项目活动，在提高特定研究生STEM系的能力方面，为什么某些STEM系比其他系更有效地提高了特定研究生STEM系的能力，从而更容易培养出更多合格的、代表性较低的少数民族STEM博士学位获得者？(2)将研究员的教职研究顾问作为一个集体定期审查个别研究员的学术生产率将如何影响参与者的指导经验以及他们完成博士学位的进程？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究和开发中。通过培养未来的教授和科学劳动力，增值体现在科学和工程领域的少数族裔的可见度上，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.