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

Louis Stokes少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)计划帮助大学和学院努力大幅增加科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科的高质量学位课程录取并成功完成的学生数量，以实现STEM劳动力的多样化。LSAMP计划的优先事项之一是促进代表人数不足的学生无缝过渡到STEM研究生课程。圣母大学将在2016年的教学与辅导学院为有兴趣学习如何准备NSF研究生研究奖学金项目(GRFP)竞争性申请的学生举办新兵训练营。巴黎圣母院有举办NSF GRFP训练营讲习班的经验，这导致了很高比例的参与者获得了著名的奖学金。虽然建议的训练营对教学研究所的所有学生和教职员工开放，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LSAMP机构的教职员工。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保持一致。圣母大学拟议的新兵训练营有可能：(I)提高对培训代表性不足的学生准备竞争性奖学金申请的有效战略的理解；(Ii)提高教职员工为学生撰写强有力的支持信的能力？这项工作的目的是：(1)提高申请人数；(3)增强可扩展性；(4)增加攻读科学、技术和经济管理高级学位的人数不足的学生人数。

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.