Louis Stokes New STEM Pathways Implementation-Only Alliance: The Bridges Across Texas Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation

Louis Stokes少数民族参与联盟(LSAMP)计划帮助大学和学院通过努力显著增加来自历史上代表性不足的少数民族(URM)的学生数量，成功完成STEM的高质量学位课程，使科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)劳动力多样化。跨越德克萨斯州的桥梁LSAMP(BAT-LSAMP)是与五所西班牙裔高等教育服务机构(HSI)--德克萨斯理工大学(TTU)、北德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校(UNTD)、达拉斯学院埃尔森特罗校区(DCECC)、南平原学院(SPC)和德克萨斯最南端学院(TSC)--合作的项目。这一合作代表着一个人口多样性和地理面积大的地区，在一个基于STEM的职业需求不断增加和人口结构迅速变化的州，该地区缺乏LSAMP支持。BAT-LSAMP是一个为期五年的跨机构项目，其中包括创新和以证据为基础的战略，以克服已确定的阻碍来自代表不足的族裔群体的学生在STEM中坚持和取得成功的障碍。该项目的目标是(1)将STEM学科的URM学士学位毕业生人数增加一倍，(2)增加STEM学科的URM转学次数。这些目标将通过在每个伙伴机构建立一个互动的、虚拟连接的STEM中心网络来实现，并在归属感框架的指导下实施高影响力的做法，以增加STEM URM获得和参与咨询、指导、STEM为重点的资源以及社会和同行支持的发展资源。到项目期结束时，BAT-LSAMP将对全州的大量学生产生变革性的影响，并将获得关于有效和可持续的战略的跨机构知识，以促进无缝过渡，从而加强URM在STEM的坚持性和成功，从而提高保留率和毕业率。成果和经验教训的传播将采取多管齐下的方法，包括传统的信息传播途径，即出版物、会议演示和社交媒体，以及通过STEMinars记录并发布在BAT-LSAMP网站上。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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 (URM) populations to successfully complete high-quality degree programs in STEM. The Bridges Across Texas LSAMP (BAT-LSAMP) is a collaboration with five Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) of higher education- Texas Tech University (TTU), the University of North Texas at Dallas (UNTD), Dallas College El Centro Campus (DCECC), South Plains College (SPC), and Texas Southmost College (TSC). This collaboration represents a demographically diverse and geographically large region that lacked LSAMP support in a state with a growing number of STEM-based career needs and a rapidly changing demographic. BAT-LSAMP is a five-year cross-institutional project that includes innovative and evidence-based strategies to overcome the identified barriers inhibiting the persistence and success of students from underrepresented ethnic groups in STEM. The project objectives are to (1) double the URM baccalaureate degree graduates in STEM disciplines, and (2) increase the number of URM transfers in STEM disciplines. These objectives will be achieved by establishing an interactive, virtually linked network of STEM Centers at each partner institution and implementing high-impact practices, guided by the Sense of Belonging framework, to increase STEM URMs’ access to and participation in advising, mentoring, STEM-focused resources, and developmental resources for social and peer support. By the end of the project period, BAT-LSAMP will have made a transformational impact on a large number of students across the state, and cross-institutional knowledge will be gained about effective and sustainable strategies to facilitate seamless transitions that will strengthen URM persistence and success in STEM, thereby increasing retention and graduation. Dissemination of results and lessons learned will take a multi-prong approach including traditional avenues of information dissemination, i.e., publications, conference presentations and social media and via STEMinars which will be recorded and posted on the BAT-LSAMP website.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.