Louis Stokes B2B Alliance: (Northern New Jersey Bridges to the Baccalaureate Alliance)

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。 北方新泽西LSAMP通向学士学位的桥梁（NNJ-B2B）项目继续与该州的四所社区学院（即帕塞伊克县社区学院（PCCC）、哈德逊县社区学院（HCCC）、联合县社区学院（UCCC）和莫里斯县学院（UCM））建立伙伴关系，以提高传统上代表性不足的少数民族学生向四年制STEM学位课程的转学率。 PCCC领导的联盟，其中包括两个新的社区学院- UCM，一个新兴的西班牙裔服务社区学院，和HCCC在三年的项目。目标是在项目期间增加900名学生的转学人数。NNJ-B2B机构将利用先前NSF资助项目产生的知识，为一系列高影响力实践的设计和实施带来专业知识，这些实践将有助于实现其转移目标，并改变其招聘和保留干预措施和机构。 学生将受益于早期的本科生研究经验和指导活动，以及与罗格斯大学领导的花园州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟机构的社会融合活动。 联盟的领导和治理活动将继续侧重于改进与四年制院校的衔接政策。自2014年以来，参与B2B项目的学生的纵向研究提出了沿着过程评价。 项目成果将通过会议和在线STEM教育期刊在地方和全国范围内传播。该LSAMP B2B项目的成果将使全国的教育机构和STEM社区在扩大参与方面受益。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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 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. The Northern New Jersey LSAMP Bridge to the Baccalaureate (NNJ-B2B) project continue its partnership between four community colleges in the state, namely, Passaic County Community College (PCCC), Hudson County Community College (HCCC), Union County Community College (UCCC) and County College of Morris (UCM), to increase transfer rates to four-year STEM degree programs for traditionally underrepresented minority students. PCCC leads the alliance which includes two new community colleges - UCM, an emerging Hispanic-serving community college, and HCCC during the three-year project. The goal is to increase the number of transfers by 900 students during the project period. NNJ-B2B institutions will leverage knowledge generated from prior NSF funded projects to bring expertise to the design and implementation of a range of high impact practices that will aide in achieving its transfer goal and transform its recruitment and retention interventions and institutions. Students will benefit from early undergraduate research experiences and mentoring activities in addition to social integration activities with institutions in the Garden State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation led by Rutgers University. Leadership and governance activities of the alliance will continue emphasis on improving articulation policies with four-year institutions. A longitudinal study of students participating in the B2B project since 2014 is proposed along with process evaluation. Project outcomes will be disseminated locally and nationally through conferences and on-line STEM education journals. Findings from this LSAMP B2B project will benefit educational institutions and the STEM community nationally in broadening participation efforts.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.