LSAMP BD: Boise State University - Pacific Northwest Alliance - PNW Graduate Fellows Program

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）项目帮助大学和学院通过培养具有高度竞争力的学生，使STEM劳动力多样化，这些学生来自历史上在STEM学科中代表性不足的群体：非洲裔美国人、阿拉斯加原住民、美洲印第安人、西班牙裔美国人、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。LSAMP通往博士学位的桥梁（BD）活动的目标是提高来自代表性不足人群的STEM研究生的数量和质量，重点是博士入学和完成。在美国高等教育机构实施的BD项目有助于实现美国国家科学基金会2018-2022年战略计划的目标之一，即“培养一支更有能力和多样化的研究队伍，提高国家的科学和创新技能”。这项资助的愿景是提供一个全国性的模式，以培养具有STEM博士学位的代表性不足的科学家和工程师。这次LSAMP BD活动的演出地点是博伊西州立大学（BSU），这是太平洋西北路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（PNW LSAMP）的10所学院和大学之一。BSU PNW研究生研究员计划的近期目标是招募并留住12名LSAMP学生，直到毕业并获得STEM博士学位。为了确保少数族裔（URM）学生在研究生阶段取得成功，该项目将通过强调多学科学习、建立社区意识和社会网络活动、纳入包容性指导策略以增强多样性和包容性、鼓励科学写作技能发展以提高科学身份、将职业探索和专业发展结合起来，为学术成就提供一个全面的框架。最终，该项目将成为催化剂，从根本上改变BSU的结构、思维方式、流程和编程，以便该机构增加历史上URM学生在完成STEM博士学位课程时的总体代表性和成功率。此外，从该项目中吸取的经验教训将与PNW LSAMP联盟的其他大学，通过LSAMP国家网络，以及更广泛地与国家STEM高等教育领域分享。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 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 Boise State University (BSU), one of the 10 college and universities included in the Pacific Northwest Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (PNW LSAMP). The immediate goal of the PNW Graduate Fellows Program at BSU is to recruit and retain a cohort of twelve LSAMP students through to graduation with a STEM doctoral degree. To ensure the success of underrepresented minority (URM) students at the graduate level, the project will provide a comprehensive framework for academic achievement by emphasizing multidisciplinary learning, building a sense of community and social networking events, incorporating inclusive mentoring strategies that enhance diversity and inclusion, encouraging scientific writing skills development to increase science identity, and integrating career exploration and professional development. Ultimately, the program will be the catalyst to fundamentally transform the structures, mindsets, processes, and programming at BSU so that the institution increases the overall representation and success of historically URM students in their completion of STEM doctoral degree programs. Moreover, the lessons learned from this program will be shared extensively with the other universities in the PNW LSAMP Alliance, across the LSAMP national network, and more generally with the national STEM higher education arena.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.