LSAMP BD: University of South Carolina-Columbia, LS SCAMP

Louis Stokes少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)计划帮助大学和学院通过培养具有高度竞争力的学生来实现科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)劳动力的多元化，这些学生来自历史上在STEM学科中代表性较低的群体：非洲裔美国人、阿拉斯加原住民、美国印第安人、西班牙裔美国人、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。LSAMP通向博士学位之桥(BD)活动的目标是提高STEM研究生的数量和质量，重点是博士入学和完成学业。在国家高等教育机构实施的BD项目有助于实现NSF 2018-2022年战略计划中的目标之一，即“促进更有能力和多样化的研究劳动力的增长，并提高国家的科学和创新技能。”这笔赠款的愿景是提供一个全国模式，培养出拥有STEM博士学位的代表不足的科学家和工程师。这项LSAMP BD活动的表演地点是哥伦比亚的南卡罗来纳大学(USC)，这是路易斯斯托克斯南卡罗来纳州少数人参与联盟(LS SCAMP)包括的14所学院和大学之一。该项目的目标是在南加州大学创建第一个BD项目，并建立一个基于证据的、可持续的项目，招募、指导和支持未被充分代表的少数民族(URM)学生进入STEM博士项目并通过STEM博士项目提供支持。除了提供大量的资金支持，使学生能够全身心地专注于研究生水平的课程工作和研究，该项目旨在推动BD学生完成博士水平的学习，还将为招收学生提供一个桥梁计划，以及专注于沟通、普遍研究技能和适应研究社区的活动。这些项目利用了南加州大学广泛的现有资源，旨在促进在五年内获得博士学位。BD计划将创建一个包括科学和工程学科的URM学者社区。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 the development of highly competitive students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines: African-Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. The goal of the LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Activity is to increase the quantity and quality of STEM graduate students from underrepresented populations, with emphasis on PhD matriculation and completion. BD programs implemented in the nation's institutions of higher education contribute to addressing one of the objectives in NSF's 2018-2022 Strategic Plan, namely to "foster the growth of a more capable and diverse research workforce and advance the scientific and innovation skills of the Nation." The vision of this grant is to provide a national model to produce underrepresented scientists and engineers with doctoral degrees in STEM.The performance site for this LSAMP BD Activity is the University of South Carolina (USC), Columbia, one of the 14 college and universities included in the Louis Stokes South Carolina Alliance for Minority Participation (LS SCAMP). The goal of this project is to create the first BD program at the USC and to establish an evidence-based and sustainable program of recruitment, mentoring, and support of underrepresented minority (URM) students into and through STEM doctoral programs. In addition to providing substantial financial support to enable students to focus full time on graduate-level course work and research, the project, designed to advance BD students toward completion of doctoral level studies, will provide a bridge program for matriculating students and activities focused on communication, universal research skills, and acculturation to the research community. The programs are leveraged by extensive existing resources at the USC and are designed to facilitate the obtainment of doctoral degrees in five years. The BD program will create a community of URM scholars encompassing both sciences and engineering disciplines.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.