A Game Changer-The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation Program.

LSAMP计划始于1991年，是一个多学科综合本科课程，旨在大幅增加少数民族学生在STEM领域获得学士学位的人数。奖项已经从6个联盟发展到45个州和地区联盟，其中包括600多家机构。这个项目被许多人认为是扩大参与项目的皇冠上的宝石。关于LSAMP如何能够完成这一令人难以置信的壮举的知识需要一个论坛，在这个论坛上，利益相关者可以突出国家NSF的LSAMP战略，并帮助建立基于模型和基于证据的招聘和保留方法的知识库。该项目是通过LSAMP项目主管提高代表性不足的少数民族学生在STEM领域知识的重要一步。首席研究人员与其他科学和教育教师合作所获得的经验将使他们能够应对培养更多少数族裔科学家这一国家面临的巨大挑战。回顾一个成功项目过去25年的丰富历史，将有助于国家对有效实践的理解，这些实践有助于少数民族科学家在研究和教授领域的发展轨迹。通过这次会议的实施，该项目扩大了未被充分代表的群体在研究生和本科教育中的参与，并有望增加这些群体获得STEM博士和其他学位并进入教授职位的人数。本次会议所产生的发现和理解将加强未被充分代表的少数民族在STEM领域的参与。

The LSAMP program began in 1991 as a multidisciplinary comprehensive undergraduate program designed to increase substantially the number of minority students receiving baccalaureate degrees in STEM field. Awards have grown from 6 alliances to 45 state and regional alliances which encompass more than 600 institutions. The program is considered by many to be the crown-jewel of broadening participation programs. The knowledge of how LSAMP was able to accomplish this incredible feat needs a forum where the stakeholders can highlight to the nation NSF's LSAMP strategy and help to build the knowledge base on models and evidenced-based approaches to recruitment and retention.The project is an important step in advancing the knowledge of underrepresented minority students in STEM through the LSAMP project directors. The experiences gained by principal investigators working with other science and education faculty will position them to address the nation's great challenge of producing more minority scientists. Reviewing the rich history of the past twenty five (25) years of a successful program will contribute to the nation's understanding of effective practices that contribute to the trajectories of minority scientists in both research and the professoriate.The project, through implementation of this conference, broadens participation of underrepresented groups in graduate and undergraduate education with the real prospect of increasing the number of such groups attaining doctoral and other degrees in STEM and entering the professoriate. Discovery and understanding resulting from this conference will enhance the participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM fields.