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

Louis Stokes少数民族参与联盟(LSAMP)计划帮助大学和学院使科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)劳动力多样化，努力显著增加来自历史上代表性较低的少数群体(非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美国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)的学生数量，成功完成STEM的高质量学位课程。北卡罗来纳州路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟(NCLSAMP)项目建议利用“有希望的做法”和新的计划举措来实现以下目标：1)增加拥有STEM学士学位的合格的未被充分代表的毕业生的人才库；2)促进STEM学术课程的保留率和学士学位的获得；以及3)增加STEM研究生课程的录取人数。NCLSAMP STEM路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保留率为75%(75%)；(2)将具有STEM学士学位的合格、历史上代表性不足的少数族裔毕业生的人才库增加10%；以及，(3)增加10%的NCLSAMP参与者进入STEM研究生课程。联盟将在以队列为基础的学习、协作教学方法和分组调度的成功实施的基础上，帮助其成员将更多代表性不足的学生纳入STEM学习社区，使其制度化并保持高影响力的实践。将继续和扩大的最佳做法包括促进学习小组、研究技能发展讲习班和为本科生提供指导研究经验。北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校将利用NSF资助的STEM根项目进行一项混合方法研究。该项目有助于确定驱使学生远离STEM领域的体制因素。这项研究的结果将发表在学术期刊上并广泛传播。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.