Louis Stokes B2B Alliance: Central Florida STEM Alliance Paths to Engagement : Central Florida STEM Alliance Paths to Engagement

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）项目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，通过努力显著增加历史上代表性不足的少数民族人口的学生数量，使他们成功完成高质量的STEM学位课程。在接下来的三年里，由四所社区学院组成的佛罗里达中部STEM联盟（CFSA）将与佛罗里达州立大学系统的三所授予学士学位的机构（佛罗里达农业机械大学、佛罗里达理工学院和佛罗里达理工大学）合作，支持联盟学生在STEM领域的保留、转学和成功毕业。联盟机构包括瓦伦西亚社区学院（牵头机构）、佛罗里达中部学院、帕斯科-埃尔南多州立学院和波尔克州立学院。在联盟过去成功的基础上，它将继续与在STEM领域历史上代表性不足的学生合作，同时研究创新和循证战略，最大限度地为社区大学生提供STEM机会。在三年的项目期内，该项目将使成功转入STEM学士学位课程的学生人数净增加30%。CFSA将分析与归属感、STEM身份、STEM自我效能感相结合的创新策略，以及这些因素对少数族裔学生坚持STEM道路的影响。本项目将在LSAMP项目理论和Tinto模型（1987）的基础上，通过研究加速学生在社区大学背景下进步的社会、情感、教育、经济和文化条件，更深入地研究目标学生开始识别为新兴STEM专业人员和属于STEM社区的条件。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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 to successfully complete high-quality degree programs in STEM. Over the next three years, the Central Florida STEM Alliance (CFSA), an alliance of four community colleges, will partner with three baccalaureate degree-granting institutions (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Florida Institute of Technology, and Florida Polytechnic University) from the State University System of Florida to support the retention, transfer, and successful graduation of Alliance students in STEM fields. The alliance institutions include Valencia Community College (Lead institution), College of Central Florida, Pasco-Hernando State College, and Polk State College.Building on the Alliance’s past successes, it will continue to work with students who are historically underrepresented in STEM fields while studying innovative and evidence-based strategies to maximize STEM opportunities for community college students. The project will achieve a 30% net increase in the number of students who successfully transfer into STEM baccalaureate degree programs over the three-year project period. The CFSA will analyze innovative strategies aligned with the intersection of sense of belonging, STEM identity, STEM self-efficacy, and the impact these factors have on persistence in STEM pathways among minoritized students. This project will more deeply examine the conditions under which targeted students begin to identify as emerging STEM professionals and as belonging to a STEM community, building on the LSAMP program theory and Tinto Model (1987) by examining the social, emotional, educational, financial, and cultural conditions that accelerate student progress in the community college context.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.