LSAMP BD: Florida International University FGLSAMP

佛罗里达州佐治亚州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟(FGLSAMP)正在佛罗里达国际大学(FIU)建立2018-2020年博士学位桥(BD)网站，以增加LSAMP博士学位获得者的数量。该计划将培训BD研究员获得博士学位，并鼓励他们过渡到学术界的职业生涯，为其他学生树立榜样。FIU在招收、留住和毕业STEM少数族裔学生方面有着良好的记录。FGLSAMP-FIU网站致力于“通过扩大S人才库，促进创新，提升国家的全球经济领导地位，提高少数族裔学生的参与度和成就率，从而为国家的健康做出贡献。”FGLSAMP-FIU网站提出了一个多方面的、以学生为中心的计划，该计划将借鉴FGLSAMP过去在STEM培养未被充分代表的学生取得高学业成就方面的成功，以及FGLSAMP BD团队在FIU、FSU、UF和USF之前的15个BD团队支持了200多名少数族裔研究生的“最佳实践”。拟议计划的目标是：1)招募和安排LSAMP本科生参加FIU的STEM博士项目；2)确保所有BD研究员成功地进行论文研究和培训；3)提供有组织的专业发展活动，以发展一个强大的学习社区，支持“志同道合”的少数民族学者网络，并促进他们成功地保留在STEM博士项目中；4)通过广泛的国家实验室和国际研究经验为全球STEM工作人员培养研究员，5)为BD研究员的成功提供指导指导，以及6)让BD研究员参与对LSAMP本科生的K-12外展、教学和近乎同行的指导，使他们能够激励下一代少数族裔科学家和工程师。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 Florida Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (FGLSAMP) is establishing a 2018-2020 Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) site at Florida International University (FIU) to increase the number of LSAMP doctoral degree awardees. The program will train the BD fellows to a doctoral degree and encourage them to transition into a career in academia to serve as a role model for other students. FIU, has a proven record of recruiting, retaining and graduating minority students in STEM. The FGLSAMP-FIU site addresses the National Challenge of "increasing the participation and success of underrepresented minorities in S&E contributes and to the health of the nation by expanding the S&E talent pool, enhancing innovation, and improving the nation's global economic leadership."FIU proposes a multi-faceted, student-centered initiative that will leverage the past successes of FGLSAMP in fostering high academic achievement amongst underrepresented students in STEM, and the "best practices" of fifteen prior FGLSAMP BD cohorts at FIU, FSU, UF, and USF that have supported over 200 minority graduate students. The objectives of the proposed program are: 1) recruit and place LSAMP undergraduates into STEM PhD programs at FIU, 2) ensure successful dissertation research and training for all BD fellows; 3) provide structured professional development activities to develop a strong learning community, support network of "like-minded" minority scholars, and promote their successful retention in a STEM doctoral program; 4) educate fellows for the global STEM workforce through extended national lab and international research experiences, 5) provide guided mentoring for the success of BD fellows, and 6) engage BD fellows in K-12 outreach, teaching, and near-peer mentoring of LSAMP undergraduates that will enable them to inspire the next generation of minority scientists and engineers.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.