Pre-Alliance Planning: Working Together ? Adelante!

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划协助大学和学院努力显著增加学生入学人数并成功完成科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科的高质量学位课程，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，以支持历史上在STEM学科中代表性不足的种族和族裔群体，如非洲裔美国人，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岛民，来改变本科STEM教育。这些策略促进了准备充分的学生的生产高素质和积极性，以追求研究生教育或职业生涯在干。培养STEM人才的必要性已经确立。美国（U.S.）为了保持全球竞争力，它必须利用所有公民的才能，并在支撑知识经济的STEM领域提供卓越的教育准备。来自不同种族群体的美国学生在STEM领域的代表性不足，代表了美国圣玛丽大学、湖圣母大学、Trinity大学和化身世界大学的STEM劳动力的未开发资源，这些大学都是圣安东尼奥的初级本科大学（PUI），旨在形成一个新的路易斯·斯托克斯STEM途径实施（SPIO）联盟，以增加授予STEM劳动力中代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生的STEM学士学位和研究生学位的数量。 参与联盟前规划项目的三个机构是西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）。该项目将重点确定STEM管道中“泄漏”的原因，首先设计一个协作和规范化的指标来跟踪学生群体，确定数据差距，并在联盟学生中进行需求评估，以确定URM学生保留STEM的障碍。规划活动将包括在18个月期间举办的几次研讨会。这个联盟前规划项目旨在通过评估潜在的干预措施和确定学生认为的保留障碍，最终提高URM学生在STEM领域的准备程度，并提高他们的保留率。关于分析保留数据，该联盟将制定一项计划，该计划将通过高等教育环境传播，以记录第一年之后STEM专业的学生保留情况，并跟踪进入研究生/专业学校的URM STEM专业学生。 该项目的主要成果将是制定衡量标准、评估设计和评估方法，以帮助制定完整的联盟提案。 项目成果的传播有可能定制和应用于全国其他PUI和MSI机构。对该项目的支持是由人力资源开发司（HRD）和本科教育司（DUE）的路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟和西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）方案共同提供的该奖项反映了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 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 in order 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. The need for cultivating STEM talent has been well established. 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. American students from diverse ethnic groups are underrepresented in STEM fields,and represent an untapped resource for the STEM workforce in the U.S.St. Mary’s University, Our Lady of the Lake University, Trinity University, and the University of the Incarnate Word, all Primarily Undergraduate Universities (PUIs) in San Antonio, aim to form a new Louis Stokes STEM Pathways Implementation-Only (SPIO) Alliance to increase the number of STEM baccalaureate and graduate degrees awarded to students that are underrepresented minority (URM) in the STEM workforce. Three institutions participating in the pre-alliance planning project are Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs).This project will focus on identifying the causes of “leaks” in the STEM pipeline by first designing a collaborative and normalized metric to track student cohorts, identifying data gaps, and conducting a needs assessment among the Alliance students to identify barriers to URM student retention in STEM. Planning activities will include several workshops over the 18-month period.This Pre-Alliance Planning project seeks to ultimately increase the preparedness of URM students in STEM fields and increase their retention, through the evaluation of potential interventions and identification of student perceived barriers to retention. With regards to analyzing retention data, the Alliance will develop a plan, which will be disseminated through the higher education landscape, to document student retention in STEM majors beyond the first year and to track URM STEM majors who enter graduate/professional school. The major outcome from this project will be the development of metrics, an evaluation design, and assessment methods to aid in development of the full alliance proposal. Dissemination of project results have the potential for customization and application to other PUI and MSI institutions in the nation.Support for this project is jointly provided by the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation and the Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Programs in the Division of Human Resource Development (HRD) and the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE).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.