Louis Stokes STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: Puerto Rico-LSAMP - Expanding Opportunities for Underrepresented College Students (2020-2025)

路易斯斯托克斯 STEM 途径和研究联盟：波多黎各-LSAMP - 扩大代表性不足的大学生的机会（2020-2025）

• 批准号: 2008186
• 负责人: Luis Ferrao
• 金额: $ 320万
• 依托单位: University of Puerto Rico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2008186&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Louis; Stokes; STEM; Pathways; Research

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the STEM workforce through their efforts at significantly increasing the numbers of students successfully completing high quality degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Particular emphasis is placed on transforming STEM education through innovative recruitment and retention strategies and experiences in support of groups historically under-represented in STEM disciplines: African-Americans, Alaskan Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders.The 2020-2024 Puerto Rico Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (PR-LSAMP) STEM Pathways and Research Alliance (SPRA) project, under the leadership of the University of Puerto Rico, will build on the successes of previous support to attract, recruit and retain STEM students in undergraduate and graduate studies to degree completion. The alliance is comprised of: (1) the University of Puerto Rico System: two graduate campuses - Río Piedras and Mayaguez and six 4-year campuses - Aguadilla, Arecibo, Bayamon, Cayey, Humacao, and Ponce; (2) the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico; and (3) the Ana G. Méndez University System - the Universidad Metropolitana, Universidad del Este, and Universidad del Turabo. PR-LSAMP provides a model for a seamless pipeline to increase the number of underrepresented minority groups that complete a PhD in STEM fields. It documents and disseminates the effectiveness of the replicable undergraduate research mentoring strategy to increase the number of underrepresented students that continue on to graduate studies and contribute to the diversity of the nation's STEM workforce. Furthermore, it disseminates and applies concepts of Learning Science to improve learning and teaching in STEM disciplines in a transformative manner.A requirement of this project is the production and dissemination of broadening participation research. Thus, the project will conduct impact studies to answer the following questions: (1) Which components of the PR-LSAMP model are more effective at mediating changes in different institutional or regional contexts? and (2) To what extent does participating in the PR-LSAMP model changes student’s non-cognitive attributes (self-efficacy, outcome expectations and STEM interest)? Support for this project is provided by the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), that aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs, the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP), and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划通过显著增加成功完成科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科高质量学位课程的学生人数，帮助大学和学院实现STEM劳动力的多样化。特别强调通过创新的招聘和保留战略和经验来改变STEM教育，以支持历史上在STEM学科中代表性不足的群体：非裔美国人，阿拉斯加土著人，美洲印第安人，西班牙裔美国人，夏威夷土著人，2020-2024年波多黎各路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（PR-LSAMP）STEM途径和研究联盟（SPRA）项目，在波多黎各大学的领导下，将建立在以前支持的成功，以吸引，招聘和保留本科和研究生学习的STEM学生完成学位。 该联盟包括：（1）波多黎各大学系统：两个研究生院-里奥皮德拉斯和马亚圭斯，以及六个四年制校园-阿瓜迪利亚、阿雷西博、巴亚蒙、卡伊、乌马考和庞塞;（2）波多黎各天主教大学;（3）安娜G.门德斯大学系统-大都会大学、埃斯特大学和图拉博大学。PR-LSAMP提供了一个无缝管道模型，以增加完成STEM领域博士学位的代表性不足的少数群体的数量。它记录和传播可复制的本科生研究指导战略的有效性，以增加继续研究生学习的代表性不足的学生人数，并为国家STEM劳动力的多样性做出贡献。此外，它传播和应用学习科学的概念，以变革的方式改善STEM学科的学习和教学。 因此，该项目将进行影响研究，以回答以下问题：（1）PR-LSAMP模型的哪些组成部分在不同体制或区域背景下更有效地调解变化？（2）参与PR-LSAMP模型在多大程度上改变了学生的非认知属性（自我效能、结果期望和STEM兴趣）？ 该项目由改善本科STEM教育提供支持：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），旨在加强本科STEM教育，并在HSI，路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP），以及刺激竞争研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）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。