Louis Stokes B2B Alliance: Harris County Community College Alliance (HCCCA)

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努力显著增加进入科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科并成功完成高质量学位课程的学生人数，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策略，以及相关的教育经验来改变本科STEM教育，以支持历史上在STEM学科中代表性不足的种族和族裔群体：非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。这些策略有助于培养出准备充分、高素质、有动力追求STEM研究生教育或职业生涯的学生。美国要保持全球竞争力，至关重要的是要挖掘所有公民的才能，并在支撑知识经济的STEM领域提供卓越的教育准备。哈里斯县社区学院联盟（HCCCA）由两所授予副学士学位、为西班牙裔服务的两年制公立机构（圣哈辛托学院和休斯顿社区学院）组成，是为了响应对更多样化、更熟练的技术劳动力的需求而成立的。这种需求仍然存在，在德克萨斯州尤为迫切。HCCCA将以研究为基础的模式为基础，这种模式已被证明在增加代表性不足的社区大学生转到四年制STEM学科院校的人数方面取得了成功。这一重点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队伍，并扩大所有公民的科学素养”。为了支持这一重点，该联盟将让学生参与STEM接触、一年级同伴指导、教师指导、有竞争力的暑期研究和实习机会、年度研究研讨会、STEM系列研讨会和专门的社交媒体网站，以帮助促进社区大学生形成学术认同的关键社会凝聚力。为了支持转学目标，该联盟将使用地图或指导路径，明确确定教育和职业目标，以便更容易地过渡到四年制大学。此外，将建立一个管道，利用已经在转学机构的校友LSAMP学生来帮助接收新的转学学生，并在大学建立一个新的学者社区。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 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 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 Harris County Community College Alliance (HCCCA), consisting of two public, associate-degree granting, Hispanic Serving two-year institutions (San Jacinto College and Houston Community College), was formed 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 Texas. HCCCA will build on research-based models which have proven successful in increasing the number of underrepresented community college students who transfer to four-year institutions in a STEM discipline. This focus supports 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." In support of the focus, the Alliance will engage students in STEM exposure, first-year peer mentoring, faculty mentoring, competitive summer research and internship opportunities, an annual research symposium, STEM seminar series, and dedicated social media sites to help facilitate the social cohesion critical for community college students to form their academic identify. In support of the transfer goal, the alliance will use mapping, or guided pathways, with clearly identified educational and career goals, to provide easier transitions to four-year institutions. In addition, a pipeline will be created that uses alumni LSAMP students already at the transfer institution to help receive the new transfer students and establish a new Community of Scholars at the university.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.