Louis Stokes STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: Pacific Northwest

Louis Stokes少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)计划帮助大学和学院努力大幅增加科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科的高质量学位课程录取并成功完成的学生数量，以使STEM劳动力多样化。特别强调通过创新的、基于证据的招聘和保留战略以及相关的教育经验来转变本科STEM教育，以支持在STEM学科中历来代表性不足的种族和民族：非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美国印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。这些战略有助于培养准备充分的学生，这些学生非常合格，有动力在STEM继续研究生教育或职业生涯。为了保持全球竞争力，至关重要的是要挖掘所有公民的才华，并在支撑知识经济的STEM领域提供出色的教育准备。太平洋西北地区LSAMP(PNWLSAMP)计划成立于2009年，旨在满足对更多样化和更熟练的技术劳动力的需求。这一需要仍然存在，在华盛顿州尤为迫切。组成该联盟的10所公立院校各不相同，其中包括5所四年制院校和5所合作社区学院。这些机构是博伊西州立大学、俄勒冈州立大学、波特兰州立大学、华盛顿大学、华盛顿州立大学、西爱达荷州学院、林恩-本顿社区学院、西雅图中央社区学院、亚基马山谷社区学院和波特兰社区学院。该联盟的目标是在未来五年内将STEM学位的代表不足少数族裔(URM)毕业生的数量增加50%。这一目标将通过继续前几年成功的方案规划来实现，同时扩大其对领导力和指导的关注。这一新计划将包括职业发展、参与计划运作的机会、担任导师以及获得教师指导的机会。这一重点将支持LSAMP学生通过参与科学文化和讨论种族和社会耻辱在科学培训中的作用来发展他们的科学家身份和自我效能。PNWLSAMP还将通过综合研究经验和研究生院的准备和建议，将联盟院校攻读研究生教育的URM学生数量增加5%-10%。这些目标支持了美国国家科学基金会的战略目标，即“培养一支世界级的、广泛包容的科学和工程劳动力队伍，并扩大所有公民的科学素养”。这项教育研究将采取基于资产和交叉的方法，为来自URM小组的学生检验有助于STEM坚持的因素。该研究项目将包括一项大型的多年研究和四项由整个联盟的研究人员进行的较小的“冲刺研究”。这项大型研究将考察来自URM团体的STEM学生如何在历史上排外的社会机构结构中导航。它还将包括一项参与性行动要素，使学生和管理人员参与制定改善校园公平的战略。Sprint研究将分别在PNWLSAMP的一个校区进行，重点关注来自URM团体的学生在STEM的不同层面的归属感。外部评估团队将实施定量和定性工具，以评估与项目总体目标相关的个别校园和整个联盟项目的整体质量。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 their efforts to significantly increase the numbers of students matriculating into and successfully completing high quality degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to diversify the STEM workforce. Particular emphasis is placed on transforming undergraduate STEM education through innovative, evidence-based recruitment and retention strategies, and relevant educational experiences in support of racial and ethnic groups historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. These strategies facilitate the production of well-prepared students highly-qualified and motivated to pursue graduate education or careers in STEM.For the United States (U.S.) to remain globally competitive, it is vital that it taps into the talent of all its citizens and provides exceptional educational preparedness in STEM areas that underpin the knowledge-based economy. The Pacific Northwest LSAMP (PNWLSAMP) program was established in 2009 in response to the need for a more diverse and skilled technical workforce. That need still exists and is particularly acute in the State of Washington. The ten public institutions that make up the Alliance are diverse and include five four-year institutions and five partnering community colleges. The institutions are Boise State University, Oregon State University, Portland State University, the University of Washington, Washington State University, the College of Western Idaho, Linn-Benton Community College, Seattle Central Community College, Yakima Valley Community College, and Portland Community College. The goal of the Alliance is to increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) graduates with STEM degrees by 50% over the next five years. This goal will be accomplished by continuing successful programming from previous years while expanding its focus on leadership and mentorship. This new program will include professional development, opportunities to participate in program operations, serve as mentors, and have access to faculty mentorship. This focus will support LSAMP students in developing their scientist identity and self-efficacy through engagement in the culture of science and discussion of the role of race and social stigma in scientific training. PNWLSAMP will also increase the number of URM students from Alliance institutions pursuing graduate education by 5-10% through integrated research experiences and graduate school preparation and advisement. These goals support the National Science Foundation's strategic goal to "cultivate a world-class, broadly inclusive science and engineering workforce, and expand the scientific literacy of all citizens."The educational research study will take an assets-based and intersectional approach, examining factors that contribute to persistence in STEM for students from URM groups. The research project will include a large multi-year study and four smaller "sprint studies" conducted by researchers across the Alliance. The large study will examine how STEM students from URM groups navigate within historically exclusionary social institutional structures. It will also include a participatory action element that engages students and administrators to develop strategies for improving equity on their campuses. The sprint studies will each take place on one PNWLSAMP campus and focus on different dimensions of belonging in STEM for students from URM groups. An external evaluation team will implement both quantitative and qualitative instruments to assess the overall quality of the programs on the individual campuses as well as the entire alliance related to the overall goals of the project.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.