LSAMP Inspire Scholars Program

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划通过显著增加历史上代表性不足的少数民族学生人数的努力，帮助大学和学院实现科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）劳动力的多样化（非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲印第安人或阿拉斯加原住民，夏威夷原住民或其他太平洋岛民）成功完成高质量的STEM学位课程。 在接下来的两年里，麦迪逊地区技术学院（MATC）将增加从应用科学课程转到STEM学科专业的四年制学士学位机构的学生人数。 试点项目的总体目标是通过以下方式改善扩大STEM学位职业途径参与的目标：增加所有LSAMP奖学金计划参与者的STEM转移准备;增加从补救数学课程成功过渡到STEM转移轨道的学生人数;增加转入四年制STEM课程并获得STEM学士学位的参与者人数。MATC，通过LSAMP的奖学金计划和其他国家科学基金会资助的项目，如先进技术教育（ATE）和威斯康星州路易斯斯托克斯少数民族联盟（WiscAMP）及其参与国家科学基金会-资助学习中心的科学将为学生提供学术支持和指导，以提高STEM课程的学习成绩和完成率; 2）加强和扩大与转学机构的现有联系; 3）通过提供与学者承诺和参与程度挂钩的津贴来缓解经济压力;和4）通过共享经验发展学习社区。在整个项目中，该计划将跟踪学者质量点，作为学生成功的关键潜在预测因素。此外，该项目进一步推进了王雪莉博士正在进行的STEM动力研究，考虑了干预措施对由于数学补习要求而无法在第一学期或第一年获得STEM转学分的学生的影响。通过增加URM转学分学生的数量，该项目将为国家的多元化做出重大贡献？STEM劳动力。该计划还将确定影响学生在STEM成功的障碍和适当的支持水平。虽然该项目侧重于URM学生，但全面的编程和设计适用于所有对STEM感兴趣的学生群体。因此，它将通过提高学院的能力来改变麦迪逊学院，通过数学补习来支持学生的成功，并与学院一起进入STEM转移轨道？项目成果将通过联盟和合作机构网站、STEM和STEM教育研究期刊和会议广泛传播。

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, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians or Other Pacific Islanders) to successfully complete high quality degree programs in STEM. Over the next two years, Madison Area Technical College (MATC) will increase the number of students transferring from its applied science programs to four-year baccalaureate institutions with majors in STEM disciplines. The overall goal of the pilot project is to improve on the goal of broadening participation in STEM degree career pathways by: increasing the STEM transfer readiness of all LSAMP Inspire Scholars Program participants; increasing the number of students that successfully transition from remedial math coursework into the STEM transfer track; and, increasing the number of participants who transfer into four-year STEM programs and graduate with a STEM baccalaureate degree.MATC, through the LSAMP Inspire Scholars Program and other NSF-funded projects such as the Advanced Technological Education (ATE) and Wisconsin Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participaton (WiscAMP) and its participation in a NSF-funded Science of Learning Center will provide students with academic support and guidance to improve academic performance and completion rates in STEM courses; 2) enhance and expand existing connections with transfer institutions; 3) relieve financial stress by providing stipends tied to scholar commitment and level of involvement; and 4) develop a learning community through shared experiences.Throughout this project, the program will track scholar quality points as a key potential predictor of student success. In addition, this project furthers the work on STEM Momentum, on-going research conducted by Dr. Xueli Wang, by considering the impact of the interventions on underserved students that are unable to attain STEM transfer credits within their first semester or year due to math remediation requirements.By increasing the number of URM transfer students in STEM, this program will make a significant contribution to diversifying the state?s STEM workforce. The program will also identify barriers and appropriate levels of support that impact student success in STEM.Though this project focuses on URM students, the comprehensive programming and design is applicable to all STEM-interested student populations. It will therefore transform Madison College by improving the capacity of the college to support student success through math remediation and on into the STEM transfer track with the college?s new STEM Center operating as the central driver of these improvements.Project results will be disseminated broadly via the alliance and partner institution websites, STEM and STEM educational research journals and conferences.