Louis Stokes Regional Center of Excellence: Center for Promotion of Academic Careers through Motivational Opportunities to Develop Emerging Leaders in STEM (LS-PAC MODELS)

路易斯斯托克斯区域卓越中心：通过激励机会培养 STEM 新兴领导者促进学术职业的中心（LS-PAC 模型）

• 批准号: 1826826
• 负责人: Tyrslai Williams-Carter
• 金额: $ 250万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1826826&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Louis; Stokes; Regional; Center; Excellence

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. Louis Stokes Regional Centers of Excellence in Broadening Participation (LSRCE) are designed to serve as regional testbeds for outreach, knowledge-generating and diffusion activities or other activities that contribute to successful practices in STEM education.Developing a stronger, more diverse STEM workforce is a clear national need to promote economic prosperity and maintain global leadership in science. Work toward that end is in accord with the National Science Foundation's mission to promote the progress of science. To address this need, the Louisiana State University (LSU) Office of Strategic Initiatives proposes a Louis Stokes Regional Center of Excellence in Broadening Participation, entitled "LSRCE: Center for Promotion of Academic Careers through Motivational Opportunities to Develop Emerging Leaders in STEM (LS-PAC MODELS)." Specifically, the vision for this Center is to create a successful, data-driven model for increasing underrepresented minority (URM) preparation for academic careers (i.e., an effective model with well-tested strategies). This Center will cement an alliance between LSU and IBM, with IBM assisting in data management, organization, and strategizing focused data collection to aid in early promotion of best practices. The goals of this alliance are to (1) increase the quality and quantity of URM STEM students pursuing doctoral degrees within the LSAMP collaborating institutions through mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students; (2) increase retention to graduation rate of underrepresented STEM PhD students; (3) develop a national model and platform for increasing the number of URM minority STEM PhD recipients, and (4) develop a model for increasing placement of URM PhDs into the professoriate and to minimize attrition once they get there. With data and use of IBM consulting and software, the Center's social science researchers will examine the strength of social network connections and how those strengthen URM students' learning experiences, and whether corresponding increases in career resources occur. This will contribute scientific knowledge to the theoretical understanding of how social capital in the form of mentorship can be acquired in computer-supported collaborative learning environments. Data gathered with assistance from IBM will also allow members of the alliance to examine cognitive and personality characteristics of URM students that predict success along with the development of intellectual and intra- and interpersonal skills and wellbeing. The aggregate of these data will be used for iterative processes during the creation of the mentoring platform in collaboration with IBM. Ultimately, an interactive App and website will be created, manuscripts will be published in top-quality journals, and a book of best practices in mentoring URMs to the professoriate will be developed.This award is co-funded by NSF INCLUDES which focuses on catalyzing the STEM enterprise to collaboratively work for inclusive change.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.

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。路易·斯托克斯扩大参与地区英才中心(LSRCE)旨在为拓展、知识创造和传播活动或其他有助于STEM教育成功实践的活动提供地区性试验平台。发展更强大、更多样化的STEM劳动力队伍显然是促进经济繁荣和保持全球科学领导地位的国家需要。为实现这一目标而开展的工作符合国家科学基金会促进科学进步的使命。为了满足这一需求，路易斯安那州立大学(LSU)战略倡议办公室提议设立路易斯斯托克斯地区卓越中心，以扩大参与范围，名为“LSRCE：通过激励机会促进学术事业发展的中心，以培养STEM(LS-PAC模式)的新兴领导者。”具体地说，该中心的愿景是创建一个成功的、以数据为导向的模式，以增加代表不足的少数群体(URM)为学术生涯做准备(即，具有经过充分测试的战略的有效模式)。该中心将巩固路易斯安那州立大学和IBM之间的联盟，由IBM协助数据管理、组织和重点数据收集的战略制定，以帮助及早推广最佳实践。该联盟的目标是(1)通过指导本科生和研究生，提高URM STEM学生在LSAMP合作机构攻读博士学位的质量和数量；(2)提高未被充分代表的STEM博士生的毕业率；(3)发展国家模式和平台，以增加URM少数民族STEM博士学位获得者的数量；以及(4)开发一种模式，用于增加URM博士进入教职的安置，并将到达那里后的自然减员降至最低。通过数据以及IBM咨询和软件的使用，该中心的社会科学研究人员将研究社交网络联系的力量，以及这些联系如何增强URM学生的学习体验，以及职业资源是否会相应增加。这将有助于从理论上理解如何在计算机支持的协作学习环境中获得导师形式的社会资本。在IBM的帮助下收集的数据还将使联盟成员能够检查URM学生的认知和人格特征，这些特征可以预测成功以及智力、内部和人际关系技能以及幸福感的发展。在与IBM合作创建指导平台期间，这些数据的集合将用于迭代过程。最终，将创建一个互动应用程序和网站，手稿将发表在顶级期刊上，并将开发一本指导教授的URM的最佳实践书籍。该奖项由NSF Includes共同资助，重点是催化STEM企业为包容性变革而合作。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。

项目成果

Supporting Historically Underrepresented Groups in STEM Higher Education: The Promise of Structured Mentoring Networks

支持 STEM 高等教育中历史上代表性不足的群体：结构化辅导网络的前景

• DOI: 10.3389/feduc.2022.674669
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Frontiers in Education
• 影响因子: 2.3
• 作者: Markle, Robert S.;Williams, Tyrslai M.;Williams, Kristen S.;deGravelles, Karin H.;Bagayoko, Diola;Warner, Isiah M.
• 通讯作者: Warner, Isiah M.