LSAMP BD: Tennessee State University TLSAMP

田纳西州州立大学（大津），历史上的黑人大学（HBCU）和田纳西州LSAMP的领导机构，已被TLSAMP联盟选为2018年至2020年期间LSAMP桥梁博士学位参与者第二批的主办网站。 12名LSAMP BD学生将从事STEM研究，学术和专业发展，以接受和完成博士课程。 大津州立大学的田纳西LSAMP研究生BD项目将有可能继续促进研究生教育实践和政策的系统性变革，以提高博士生个人的成功和STEM研究生项目的有效性，实现美国STEM劳动力多样化的目标。在范德比尔特大学（VU）第一个田纳西LSAMP BD项目成功的基础上，大津大学将采用似曾相识的成熟的“工具包”与创新的招聘，参与，保留，学生跟踪和传播，将包括一个辅导电子仪表板，以推进辅导形成和实时跟踪学生的进步和发展的做法组件。 该工具包还包括有可能改变传统研究生教育实践的面试协议。 该计划包括与其他STEM网络和资源以及其他研究生课程的合作和联系，如NSF的研究生研究奖学金计划（GRFP）和机构资源，以确保学生成功完成STEM博士学位。 该计划将进行外部评估，并通过该计划跟踪学生，并在完成STEM博士学位课程后进入STEM职业生涯。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Tennessee State University (TSU), a Historically Black University (HBCU) and lead institution for the Tennessee LSAMP, has been chosen by the TLSAMP Alliance to serve as the host site for the second cohort of LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate participants during 2018-2020. A cohort of 12 LSAMP BD students will engage in STEM research, academics and professional development leading to acceptance and completion of the doctoral program. The Tennessee LSAMP graduate BD program at TSU will have the potential to continue to promote systemic change in graduate education practices and policy, in ways that increase the success of individual students on the doctoral pathway and the effectiveness of STEM graduate programs with a goal of diversifying America's STEM workforce.Building upon the success of the first Tennessee LSAMP BD program at Vanderbilt University (VU), TSU will employ VU's proven "toolkit" with components for innovative recruitment, engagement, retention, student tracking and dissemination that will include a mentoring e-dashboard to advance the practice of mentoring formatively and real-time tracking student progress and development. The toolkit also accommodates interview protocols that has the potential to transform traditional graduate education practices. The program includes collaborations and linkages with other STEM networks and resources as well as other graduate programs, such as NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), and institutional resources to ensure students successful completion of the STEM doctoral degree. The program will be externally evaluated and students tracked through the program and into STEM careers following completion of STEM doctoral degree programs.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.