Pre-Alliance Planning: Puget Sound 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。普吉特湾联盟(PSAlliance)项目将在华盛顿州西部的三所社区学院之间建立合作伙伴关系，即北西雅图学院、奥林匹克学院和皮尔斯学院，以制定一项长期计划，为传统上代表性不足的少数族裔学生增加STEM学位。为期18个月的规划活动的结果是提交了一份完整的LSAMP文凭衔接(B2B)资金提案，以进一步支持社区大学生的成功并过渡到四年制STEM项目。北西雅图学院将利用之前NSF资助的项目中产生的知识，将专业知识带到一系列高影响力实践的设计和实施中，这些实践将有助于转变PSAlliance STEM项目。早期本科生研究经验(URES)将是一个中心主题，以及创新招聘和留住战略的设计。该计划项目将增加关于早期研究经验和补充支持如何影响STEM学生的认同感、坚持性和参与度的知识，这些知识是在代表性不足的学生群体中进行的。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。规划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。这一奖项反映了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 Puget Sound Alliance (PSAlliance) project will establish a partnership between three community colleges in the western part of Washington State, namely North Seattle College, Olympic College and Pierce College, to create a long-term plan to increase STEM degrees for traditionally underrepresented minority students. The outcome of the 18-month planning activity is submission of a full proposal for LSAMP Bridge-to-the-Baccalaureate (B2B)funding to further support community college student success and transfer to four-year STEM programs.North Seattle College will leverage knowledge generated in prior NSF funded projects to bring expertise to the design and implementation of a range of high impact practices that will serve to transform PSAlliance STEM programs. Early Undergraduate Research Experiences (UREs) will be a central theme, as well as the design of innovative recruitment and retention strategies. The planning project will increase knowledge about what is known about how early research experiences and supplemental supports impact student STEM identity, persistence and engagement in underrepresented student populations. Project outcomes will be disseminated locally and nationally through conferences and on-line STEM education journals. Findings from the planning 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.