Louis Stokes STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: ARK-LSAMP

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划通过显著增加历史上代表性不足的少数民族学生人数的努力，帮助大学和学院实现科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）劳动力的多样化（非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲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）成功完成高质量的STEM学位课程。 该计划还支持扩大参与STEM的研究。阿肯色大学-派恩布拉夫海崖是阿肯色州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（ARK-LSAMP）的牵头机构，将在五年内（2019-2023）实施新的STEM途径和研究联盟（SPRA）项目。 八个两年制和四年制的机构组成了ARK-LSAMP联盟，并将实施干预措施。 除UAPB外，参与机构还有：阿肯色州州立大学（ASU）、菲兰德史密斯学院（PSU）、阿肯色州费耶特维尔大学（UAF）和阿肯色州小石城大学（UALR）、阿肯色州大学菲利普斯社区学院（PCCUA）、东南阿肯色州学院（SEARK）和普拉斯基技术学院（PTC）。 该联盟由一个少数民族服务机构领导，包括少数民族（历史上的黑人学院和大学）和非少数民族服务机构。该项目将在刺激竞争研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）管辖范围内实施，以提高STEM研究和教育能力。ARK-LSAMP SPRA项目建议增加社区学院转学到STEM四年制课程的学生人数，并增加STEM B的数量。S.针对目标人群。 该项目的主要重点是研究与本科阶段的持续性和进入STEM研究生学习有关的八个变量。 作为测试大学准备和课外干预对ARK-LSAMP的招聘，保留，毕业和研究生入学的影响的一种手段，研究研究由以下研究问题指导：1。哪些大学预科准备经验最能预测URM在STEM学科的招生？2.哪些课外干预最能预测URM学生在STEM专业的持久性和毕业？3.哪些课外干预最能预测进入研究生STEM教育课程？4.哪些学术课外干预最能预测进入STEM领域的学士后就业？ARK-LSAMP将采用的招聘和保留策略包括继续其第一年暑期研究所，本科研究经验，指导和建议，以及STEM专业发展活动，包括学生会议出席和国内外的研究报告。 该联盟强调在本项目期间增加该地区男性和西班牙裔参与STEM。在项目期间将进行混合方法进程和影响评价。 将通过机构网站、社交媒体、小册子、通讯广泛分享项目执行、研究和评价的结果。 该奖项反映了NSF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 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 program also supports research in broadening participation in STEM.The University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff, lead institution for the Arkansas Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (ARK-LSAMP), will implement a new STEM Pathways and Research Alliance (SPRA) project over a five-year duration (2019-2023). Eight two-and four-year institutions comprise the ARK-LSAMP alliance and will implement the interventions. In addition to UAPB, the participating institutions are: Arkansas State University (ASU), Philander Smith College (PSU), the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville (UAF) and the University of Arkansas-Little Rock (UALR), Phillips Community College of the University of Arkansas (PCCUA), Southeast Arkansas College (SEARK) and Pulaski Technical College (PTC). The alliance is led by a minority-serving institution and includes both minority (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) and non-minority-serving institutions. The project will be implemented in an Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) jurisdiction to enhance STEM research and educational capability and capacity. The ARK-LSAMP SPRA project proposes to increase the number of community college transfer students to STEM four-year programs and to increase the number of STEM B. S. degrees to the targeted populations. The main emphasis of the project is to study eight variables related to persistence at the undergraduate level and entry into STEM graduate studies. As a means of testing the impact of college readiness and co-curricular interventions on the recruitment, retention, graduation and graduate school entry of ARK-LSAMP, the research study is guided by the following research questions:1. Which pre-college readiness experiences best predict the enrollment of URM in STEM academic disciplines?2. Which co-curricular interventions best predict persistence and graduation for URM students in STEM majors?3. Which co-curricular interventions best predict entry into graduate STEM education programs?4. Which academic co-curricular interventions best predict entry into post-baccalaureateemployment in a STEM field?Recruitment and retention strategies to be employed by ARK-LSAMP include continuing its Pre-First Year Summer Institute, undergraduate research experiences, mentoring and advising, and STEM professional development activities that include student conference attendance and research presentation nationally and abroad. The alliance has placed an emphasis on increasing male and Hispanic participation in STEM in the region during this project period. A mixed-methods process and impact evaluation will be conducted during the project period. Broad sharing of project findings from implementation, research and evaluation will be conducted through institutional websites, social media, brochures, newsletters. Dissemination to non-academic sectors, such the Arkansas Economic Development community, is also planned.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.