Upstate New York LSAMP: Strengthening the Pipeline Between Two and Four Year Institutions

Louis Stokes少数民族参与联盟(LSAMP)计划帮助大学和学院使科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)劳动力多样化，努力显著增加来自历史上代表性较低的少数群体(非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲原住民、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民)的学生数量，成功完成STEM的高质量学位课程。对于纽约州北部的路易斯·斯托克斯少数群体参与联盟(ULSAMP)，有七个合作机构组成了这个联盟：五个是四年制机构--锡拉丘兹大学、克拉克森大学、康奈尔大学、伦斯勒理工学院和罗切斯特理工学院；两个是社区学院：门罗社区学院和奥农达加社区学院。锡拉丘兹大学将开展活动，招收和留住传统上代表性较低的少数族裔(URM)学生进入科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学习和职业计划。ULSAMP项目的目标是，通过提高STEM专业的URM学生的招生、学业成就和毅力，到2022年底每年总共毕业860名STEM URM学生。该联盟计划扩大、改进和研究社区大学学生为成功过渡到四年制STEM项目做好准备的最佳实践。将通过开展一项研究来加强活动，以调查研究经验、教师指导和社区学院渠道对URM学生的坚持和毕业所起的作用，以及这些举措对增加URM学生在STEM中的代表性的影响。联盟项目和相关的研究项目将产生与招收代表不足的少数族裔STEM学生、学术成功和坚持不懈有关的新知识，这些知识将通过社交媒体、联盟网站、电子通讯、STEM会议和学术期刊传播。

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 (African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders) to successfully complete high quality degree programs in STEM. For the New York State's Upstate Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (ULSAMP), seven partner institutions comprise this alliance: five are 4-year institutions-Syracuse University, Clarkson University, Cornell University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Rochester Institute of Technology; two are community colleges: Monroe Community College and Onondaga Community College. Syracuse University will develop activities to recruit and retain traditionally underrepresented minority (URM)students into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs of study and careers.The ULSAMP project goal will collectively graduate 860 STEM URM students per year by the end of 2022 by improving the recruitment, academic success, and persistence of URM students in STEM majors. The alliance plans to expand, refine, and study best practices for preparing community college students for successful transition into four-year STEM programs. Activities will be enhanced by undertaking a research study to investigate the role of research experiences, faculty mentoring, and the community college pipeline on the persistence and graduation of URM students and the implications of these initiatives for increasing representation of URM students in STEM. The alliance project and the associated research project will generate new knowledge related to the recruitment, academic success, and persistence of underrepresented minority STEM students that will be disseminated through social media outlets, alliance websites, e-newsletters, STEM conferences and scholarly journals.