Supporting Diverse Applicants: NSF GRFP Bootcamp at the Compact For Faculty Diversity's Institute on Teaching and Mentoring

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。LSAMP计划的优先事项之一是促进代表性不足的学生无缝过渡到STEM研究生课程。LSAMP机构实施的战略，导致生产准备充分的学生，高素质和积极追求研究生教育或STEM职业。圣母大学（University of Notre Dame）将在2016年的教学与指导学院（Institute on Teaching and Mentoring）为有兴趣学习如何为美国国家科学基金会（NSF）研究生研究奖学金计划（GRFP）准备竞争性申请的学生提供一个训练营。巴黎圣母院有举办NSF GRFP新兵训练营讲习班的经验，这导致了很高比例的参与者获得了享有声望的奖学金。虽然对教学研究所的所有学生和教师开放，但拟议的训练营的目标受众是LSAMP学生，包括本科生和研究生，以及来自LSAMP机构的教师。在不同的背景下向不同的目标受众复制他们的有效模式（NSF GRFP新兵训练营）的最终目标是提高STEM中代表性不足的种族/民族学生的奖学金申请成功率。这一目标显然与LSAMP计划的目标和优先事项一致。圣母大学提议的新兵训练营有可能：(i)提高对有效策略的理解，以培训代表性不足的学生，为有竞争力的奖学金申请做准备；（ii）提高教师为学生写强有力的支持信的能力？应用程序;（iii）提高可扩展性；（iv）增加未被充分代表的学生攻读STEM高级学位的人数。

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. One of the LSAMP Program priorities is to facilitate the seamless transition of underrepresented students into STEM graduate programs. LSAMP institutions implement strategies that results in the production of well-prepared students highly-qualified and motivated to pursue graduate education or careers in STEM. The University of Notre Dame will deliver a boot camp at the 2016 Institute on Teaching and Mentoring for students interested in learning how to prepare competitive applications for NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP). Notre Dame has experience delivering NSF GRFP Boot Camp workshops, which resulted in a high percentage of participants earning the prestigious fellowship.Though open to all students and faculty at the Institute on Teaching and Learning, the target audience for the proposed boot camp is LSAMP students, both undergraduate and graduate, as well as faculty from LSAMP institutions. The ultimate goal of replicating their effective model (NSF GRFP boot camps) in a different context to a different target audience is to increase the fellowship application success rate of students from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups in STEM. This goal is clearly aligned with the goals and priorities of the LSAMP program. Notre Dame's proposed boot camp has the potential to: (i) improve understanding of effective strategies for training underrepresented students to prepare competitive fellowship applications; (ii) increase the capacity of faculty to write strong letters of support for their students? applications; (iii) result in enhanced scalability; and (iv) increase the numbers of underrepresented students who pursue advanced degrees in STEM.