Indiana STEM LSAMP

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）项目帮助大学和学院努力显著增加进入科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科并成功完成高质量学位课程的学生人数，以使STEM劳动力多样化。特别强调通过创新的、基于证据的招聘和保留策略，以及相关的教育经验来改变本科STEM教育，以支持历史上在STEM学科中代表性不足的种族和族裔群体：非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。这些策略有助于培养出准备充分、高素质、有动力追求STEM研究生教育或职业生涯的学生。培养STEM人才的需求已经确立。美国要保持全球竞争力，至关重要的是要挖掘所有公民的才能，并在支撑知识经济的STEM领域提供卓越的教育准备。来自不同种族的美国学生在STEM领域的代表性不足，并且代表了美国STEM劳动力的未开发资源。印第安纳STEM LSAMP （in STEM LSAMP）由三个研究机构组成：印第安纳大学-普渡大学印第安纳波利斯分校（牵头机构），印第安纳大学布卢明顿分校和鲍尔州立大学；两所四年制地区大学：印第安纳大学西北分校和印第安纳大学南本德分校；和常青藤技术社区学院印第安纳波利斯分校，将通过建立在LSAMP模型（学术整合，社会整合和专业化）基础上的全面和整体计划，解决增加STEM学科中代表性不足学生的参与和进步的迫切需求。通过为这些学生提供教师研究指导、学术支持和STEM相关的专业化，LSAMP活动将导致印第安纳州和全国历史上代表性不足的种族/族裔人口中STEM学位持有者的显著增加。为了实现联盟目标，所有IN STEM LSAMP合作伙伴将实施以下具有凝聚力的高影响力实践，以提高一年级全日制学生的保留率，并加强学生的学科参与度：a)数学安置和在线复习支持，b)夏季桥梁计划，c)新生学习社区，d)同伴指导计划，e)学位映射，f)教师指导的研究，g)年度研究会议。此外，该联盟将通过以下方式促进STEM本科和研究生学位课程的无缝过渡：(1)增加社区学院转学的项目活动；(2)改善本科学科联系和为STEM研究生课程做准备。该项目将产生关于选定的高影响力实践对代表性不足的学生学业成功的相对贡献的新知识。将获得更多关于社区学院预转学课程和STEM学位课程合作的有效性的新知识，以成功保留和毕业四年制大学STEM领域代表性不足的学生。随着有才能的STEM毕业生进入国家研发企业，该联盟的成就将产生广泛的影响，从而使美国的STEM劳动力多样化

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in their efforts to significantly increase the numbers of students matriculating into and successfully completing high quality degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines in order to diversify the STEM workforce. Particular emphasis is placed on transforming undergraduate STEM education through innovative, evidence-based recruitment and retention strategies, and relevant educational experiences in support of racial and ethnic groups historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. These strategies facilitate the production of well-prepared students highly-qualified and motivated to pursue graduate education or careers in STEM. The need for cultivating STEM talent has been well established. For the United States (U.S.) to remain globally competitive, it is vital that it taps into the talent of all its citizens and provides exceptional educational preparedness in STEM areas that underpin the knowledge-based economy. American students from diverse ethnic groups are underrepresented in STEM fields, and represent an untapped resource for the STEM workforce in the U.S. The Indiana STEM LSAMP (IN STEM LSAMP), which consists of three research institutions: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (lead institution), Indiana University Bloomington and Ball State University; two four-year regional universities: Indiana University Northwest and Indiana University South Bend; and Ivy Tech Community College Indianapolis, will address the critical need of increasing the participation and advancement of underrepresented students in STEM disciplines through its comprehensive and holistic plan that is built upon the elements of the LSAMP Model (academic integration, social integration and professionalization). IN STEM LSAMP activities will result in significant increases of STEM degree holders among historically underrepresented racial/ethnic populations in Indiana and the nation by providing these students access to faculty research mentoring, academic support, and STEM-related professionalization. To achieve alliance goals, all IN STEM LSAMP partners will implement the following cohesive high-impact practices to increase the retention rate of first-year full-time students and to strengthen students' disciplinary engagement: a) mathematical placement and online review support, b) summer bridge programs, c) freshman learning communities, d) peer mentoring programs, e) degree mapping, f) faculty-mentored research, and g) annual research conference. Additionally, the alliance will facilitate seamless transitions into STEM undergraduate and graduate degree programs by i) increasing program activities for community college transfers and ii) improving undergraduate disciplinary connections and preparation for STEM graduate programs. The project will generate new knowledge regarding the relative contributions of the selected high-impact practices to the academic success of underrepresented students. Additional new knowledge will be gained regarding the efficacy of pre-transfer programming at community colleges and STEM degree program collaborations for success in the retention and graduation of underrepresented students in STEM fields at the four-year college level. The alliance's accomplishments will have widespread effects beyond the region as its talented STEM graduates enter national research and development enterprises and thus, will diversify the STEM workforce of the U.S.