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

Louis Stokes少数民族参与联盟(LSAMP)计划帮助大学和学院使科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)劳动力多样化，努力显著增加来自历史上代表性较低的少数群体(非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美国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)的学生数量，成功完成STEM的高质量学位课程。新泽西州北部LSAMP通向文凭学生的桥梁(NNJ-B2B)项目继续与该州的四所社区学院合作，即帕塞克县社区学院(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)，以提高传统上代表人数较少的少数族裔学生向四年制STEM学位课程的转化率。PCCC领导着联盟，其中包括两所新的社区学院-UCM，一所新兴的拉美裔服务社区学院，以及HCCC在为期三年的项目中。目标是在项目期间增加900名学生的转学人数。NNJ-B2B机构将利用以前由NSF资助的项目产生的知识，将专业知识带到设计和实施一系列高影响力做法的过程中，这些做法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。除了与罗格斯大学领导的花园州路易斯·斯托克斯少数群体参与联盟的机构进行社会融合活动外，学生还将受益于早期的本科生研究经验和指导活动。该联盟的领导和治理活动将继续强调改善与四年期机构的衔接政策。建议对自2014年以来参与B2B项目的学生进行纵向研究，并进行过程评估。项目成果将通过会议和STEM在线教育期刊在地方和全国范围内传播。来自LSAMP B2B项目的发现将使全国的教育机构和STEM社区在扩大参与努力方面受益。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 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.