Louis Stokes STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation

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。 北卡罗来纳州路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（NCLSAMP）项目建议利用“有前途的做法”以及新的计划举措，以实现以下目标：1）增加有能力的代表性不足的毕业生与STEM学士学位的人才库; 2）促进保留和学士学位在STEM学术课程的实现，以及; 3）增加进入STEM研究生课程的学生人数。 NCLSAMP STEM途径和研究联盟项目在项目结束时的预期成果是：（1）保持联盟内STEM学士学位课程参与者的总体留存率为百分之七十五（75%）;（2）将具有STEM学士学位的有能力的历史上代表性不足的少数民族毕业生的人数增加10%;以及，（3）增加10%的NCLSAMP参与者进入STEM研究生课程的人数。在实施基于队列的学习，协作教学方法和块调度方面取得成功的基础上，该联盟将帮助其成员制度化并保持高影响力的做法，让更多代表性不足的学生参与STEM，学习社区。 将继续和扩大的最佳实践包括促进学习小组，研究技能发展研讨会，并指导本科生的研究经验。 北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校将利用NSF资助的Roots of STEM项目进行混合方法研究。该项目有助于确定促使学生远离STEM领域的制度因素。 研究结果将在学术期刊上发表并广泛传播。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 North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NCLSAMP) project proposes to utilize "promising practices" as well as new program initiatives to achieve the following goals: 1) Increase the pool of competent underrepresented graduates with STEM bachelor's degrees; 2) Promote retention and baccalaureate degree attainment in STEM academic programs, and; 3) Increase the number of students who matriculate into STEM graduate programs. The NCLSAMP STEM Pathways and Research Alliance project's expected outcomes at the end of the project are to (1) maintain an overall retention rate of seventy-five percent (75%) of program participants in STEM baccalaureate programs within the Alliance; (2) increase by 10%the pool of competent historically underrepresented minority graduates with STEM bachelor's degrees; and, (3) increase by 10% the number of NCLSAMP participants who matriculate into STEM graduate programs.Building upon its successes in the implementation of cohort-based learning,collaborative instructional approaches and block-scheduling, the Alliance will help its members institutionalize and maintain high impact practices engaging a larger population of underrepresented students into STEM-learning communities. Best practices that will continue and expand include facilitated study groups, research skills development workshops, and mentored research experiences for undergraduates. A mixed methods study will be conducted by the University of North Carolina-Charlotte leveraging the NSF-funded Roots of STEM project. This project helps identify institutional factors that drive students away from STEM fields. The results of the study will be published in scholarly journals and disseminated broadly.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.