Louis Stokes Regional Center of Excellence: Inclusive Mentoring in STEM

Louis Stokes少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)计划通过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，帮助大学和学院实现科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)劳动力队伍的多元化，以成功完成高质量的STEM学位课程。Louis Stokes科学、技术、工程和数学包容性指导(Louis Stokes IM STEM)卓越中心将汇集专家，致力于沿着几种STEM途径和在不同的学习环境中研究包容性STEM指导的成功和有前途的做法。该中心将与学术机构、能源部(DoE)国家实验室、专业协会和区域工业合作伙伴合作，研究和加强针对历史上代表性不足的少数民族学生和来自其他服务不足人群的学生的包容性指导活动。随着高等教育机构招收的学生人数继续多样化，需要深入了解和广泛采用包容性指导做法，以促进学生成功。IM STEM中心由NSF资助的两个LSAMP项目的牵头机构领导--德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校(UTEP)和科罗拉多州立大学(CSU)--将通过开展STEM指导方面的知识建设和传播活动，为落基山脉西南地区服务。合作的非学术组织包括能源部的布鲁克海文国家实验室、桑迪亚国家实验室，以及专业的STEM组织，包括芝加哥人/西班牙裔美国人和美洲原住民科学促进会，以及西班牙裔专业工程师协会。项目活动中要解决的三个重点领域是指导处于过渡阶段的社区学院学生，指导本科生和研究生研究人员，以及指导体验式学习的学生。一个由总统科学、数学和工程杰出奖获得者(PASEMEM)和STEM指导研究人员组成的顾问委员会，除了与现有的路易斯·斯托克斯中西部地区卓越中心建立联系外，还为该中心的研究和传播活动提供了广泛的国家范围。该中心将通过研讨会、期刊文章、编辑过的专著、机构网站和其他对不同受众和教育机构有用的不同形式传播包容性指导知识。讲习班将对有兴趣提供自己的包容性辅导讲习班的导师和培训员进行培训。该中心有潜力扩大、提升和影响STEM教师、研究生、政府和行业专业人士社区之间关于有效指导的对话，这些社区致力于发展一支强大、多样化的STEM工作队伍。该奖项反映了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 efforts to significantly increase 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 STEM degree programs.The Louis Stokes Inclusive Mentoring in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (Louis Stokes IM STEM) Center of Excellence will bring together experts dedicated to investigating successful and promising practices for inclusive STEM mentoring along several STEM pathways and in various learning environments. The Center will collaborate with academic institutions, Department of Energy (DoE) national laboratories, professional societies, and regional industrial partners in researching and augmenting inclusive mentoring activities for historically underrepresented minority (URM) students and students from other underserved populations. As the student population enrolled in higher education institutions continues to diversify, a deep understanding and widespread adoption of inclusive mentoring practices that promote student success is needed. The IM STEM Center, with leadership from the lead institutions of two NSF-funded LSAMP projects - University of Texas-El Paso (UTEP) and Colorado State University (CSU), will serve the Southwest Rockies region by conducting knowledge-building and diffusion activities on STEM mentoring. Collaborating non-academic organizations include the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, and professional STEM organizations including the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science, and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. The three focal areas to be addressed in project activities are mentoring of community college students in transition, mentoring of undergraduate and graduate student researchers, and mentoring of experiential learning students. An advisory board consisting of Presidential Awardees of Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PASEMEM) and STEM mentoring researchers, in addition to linkages to the existing Louis Stokes Midwest Regional Center of Excellence, provides a broad national range for the Center's research and dissemination activities. The Center will disseminate inclusive mentoring knowledge via workshops, journal articles, an edited monograph, institutional websites, and other varied formats useful to diverse audiences and educational institutions. The workshops will train both mentors and trainers interested in offering their own inclusive mentoring workshops. The Center has the potential to expand, elevate and influence conversations about effective mentoring among communities of STEM faculty, graduate students, and government and industry professionals committed to developing a strong, diversified STEM workforce.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.