Northeast LSAMP Alliance: 2016-2021

路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟(LSAMP)计划帮助大学和学院实现科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)劳动力的多元化，努力显著增加来自历史上代表性较低的少数民族人口的学生数量，从而成功完成STEM的高质量学位课程。康涅狄格大学(UConn)将成为2016-2021年项目期间东北路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟(NELSAMP)的牵头机构。NELSAMP由该机构和以下合作伙伴组成：马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校、罗德岛大学(URI)、东北大学和伍斯特理工学院(WPI)。该联盟将在2016年扩大到包括塔夫茨大学，并将把招生和保留干预措施以及改进的衔接战略扩展到东北部地区的几所社区大学。这些社区学院包括马斯贝社区学院、罗德岛社区学院、纽约州立大学阿迪朗达克社区学院等。在接下来的五年里，NELSAMP将以三个相互关联的主题为指导，努力提高URM STEM学生的入学率、保留率和毕业率：1)伙伴关系：通过与当地、地区和国际上的其他大学、学校和组织建立战略伙伴关系，NELSAMP将发展促进和传播最佳实践的关系；增加从社区大学、技工高中和少数族裔服务的学区招收URM学生以攻读学士学位课程；以及增加URM学生可用的资源。2)高期望值：预计NELSAMP学生将作为学者和领导者出类拔萃，并将从事研究、国际交流和实习经验，为他们在工业、政府和学术界担任充满活力的STEM专业人员做好准备。3)社区建设：NELSAMP建立学习者社区，培养学术、合作、领导力和服务，并在联盟内外促进成功、富有成效的关系。评估NELSAMP战略有效性的联盟计划评估结果将与教育界共享，以建立知识库并促进最佳实践的实施。此外，该项目还包括一项研究，以调查URM STEM学生的教育和职业抱负如何随着时间的推移而变化和发展。这项研究有可能为STEM教育界提供关于本科生STEM学生毕业后决策过程的有价值的见解，并建议院校如何促进更多的URM学生在STEM攻读研究生课程。

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce through their efforts at significantly increasing the numbers of students from historically underrepresented minority populations to successfully complete high quality degree programs in STEM.The University of Connecticut (UCONN) will become the lead institution for the Northeast Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NELSAMP) for the 2016-2021 project period. NELSAMP comprises this institution and the following partners: University of Massachusetts-Amherst, University of Rhode Island (URI), Northeastern University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). The alliance will expand to include Tufts University in 2016 and will extend recruitment and retention interventions and improved articulation strategies to several community colleges in the northeast region. These community colleges include the MassBay Community College, Community College of Rhode Island, SUNY Adirondack Community College, among others. Over the next five years, three interrelated themes guide NELSAMP's efforts to increase URM STEM student enrollment, retention, and graduation: 1) PARTNERSHIP: By building strategic partnerships with other universities, schools, and organizations locally, regionally, and internationally, NELSAMP will develop relationships that promote and disseminate best practices; increase recruitment of URM students from community colleges, technical high schools, and minority-serving school districts to baccalaureate degree programs; and increase the resources available to URM students. 2) HIGH EXPECTATIONS: NELSAMP students are expected to excel as both scholars and leaders and will engage in research, international exchange, and internship experiences to prepare them for roles as dynamic STEM professionals in industry, government, and academia. 3) COMMUNITY BUILDING: NELSAMP builds communities of learners that foster scholarship, collaboration, leadership, and service and promote successful, productive relationships within and beyond the Alliance. Alliance program evaluation findings assessing the effectiveness of NELSAMP's strategies will be shared with the education community to build the knowledge base and foster implementation of best practices. In addition, the project includes a study to investigate how URM STEM students' educational and career aspirations change and develop over time. The study has the potential to provide the STEM education community valuable insights on the post-college decision making processes of undergraduate STEM students and suggest means by which institutions can promote greater numbers of URM students to pursue graduate study in STEM.