LSAMP BD: North Carolina State University Preparing Researchers of the Future (PROF) NC-LSAMP

Louis Stokes少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)计划通过培养在STEM学科中历来代表性较低的群体中具有高度竞争力的学生，帮助大学和学院实现STEM劳动力的多样化：非洲裔美国人、阿拉斯加原住民、美国印第安人、西班牙裔美国人、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。LSAMP通向博士之桥(BD)活动的目标是提高STEM研究生的数量和竞争力，这些学生来自历史上代表性较低的少数民族人口，重点是STEM博士入学和完成。2018-2020年北卡罗来纳州LSAMP(NC-LSAMP)BD计划将从全国范围内的LSAMP机构招募十二(12)名校友到北卡罗来纳州立大学攻读STEM学士学位后学习，为每个学生提供为期两年的津贴和教育成本形式的学生支持。该机构承诺通过完成STEM博士课程为学生提供经济援助。NCSU的战略以学生为中心，并制定了一个全面的支持性计划，将增强学生成为一名强大和富有成效的STEM研究人员的信心；增加学生与他们的研究顾问的联系；增强他们评估研究课题并为其做出贡献的能力；加强他们与大学和周围社区的联系；并提高他们的整体幸福感。该项目活动增加了有关近距离影响对少数族裔研究生坚持的影响的文献的新知识。此外，该提案将为在不同近期影响内的互动期间导致积极结果的战略增加新的洞察力。在这个项目结束时，BD参与者将拥有强大和有弹性的策略，这些策略将使他们能够在读完博士学位后保持自己的毅力。我们的教职员工将接受新的指导技巧的指导，以帮助他们改善与研究生的互动。我们的研究将首次探索为每个研究生设立一个咨询小组的影响，以改善研究生的整体幸福感和他们在研究生课程中的坚持性。评估活动将评估学生在保留、学位完成和职业进步方面取得的成就的结果。还将评估与STEM身份发展相关的职业目标和期望的社会心理结果。成果将通过该机构的网站、学术期刊和在STEM专业会议上的演讲广泛传播。这些努力将增加STEM学术领导的多样性，并有助于不断增长的关于扩大本科生和研究生水平参与STEM的文献。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the STEM workforce through the development of highly competitive students from groups historically underrepresented in STEMdisciplines: African-Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. The goal of the LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Activity is to increase the quantity and competitiveness of STEMgraduate students from historically underrepresented minority populations, with emphasis on STEM doctoral matriculation and completion.The 2018-2020 North Carolina LSAMP (NC-LSAMP) BD program will recruit twelve (12)alumni from LSAMP institutions nationwide for STEM postbaccalaureate studies at North Carolina State University Student support in the form of stipends and cost of education are provided for two years for each student. The institution commits to assisting the students financially through completion of the STEM doctoral program. NCSU's strategy focuses on the student and develops a comprehensive supportive program that will increase the student's confidence in being a strong and productive STEM researcher; increases the student's connection to their research advisor; increases their ability to assess and contribute towards their research topic; increases their connection to the university and surrounding community; and, increases their overall well-being. The project activities adds new knowledge to the literature related to the impact of proximal influences on the persistence of minority graduate students. In addition, the proposal will add new insights into strategies that lead to positive outcomes during the interactions within the different proximal influences. At the conclusion of this program, the BD participants will be armed with robust and resilient strategies that will allow them to maintain their persistence through the Ph.D. degree. Our faculty will be instructed in new mentoring techniques to help improve their interactions with their graduate students. Our study will be the first to explore the impact of an advisory panel for each graduate student to improve the overall well-being of the graduate student and their persistence through the graduate program.Evaluative activities will assess outcomes of students' accomplishments relating to retention, degree completion, and career progress. Social psychological outcomes related to career goals and expectations related to STEM identity development will also be assessed. Outcomes will be disseminated broadly through the institution's website, scholarly journals, and presentations at STEM professional conferences. These efforts will increase the diversity of STEM academic leadership and contribute to the growing literature on broadening participation in STEM at the graduate and post-graduate level.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.