LSAMP BD: North Carolina A&T State University Preparing Future Minority Ph.D. Researchers (PFMPR)

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）项目通过培养在STEM学科中代表性不足的人群中具有高度竞争力的学生，帮助大学和学院实现STEM劳动力多样化：非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。LSAMP通往博士学位的桥梁（BD）活动的目标是提高来自代表性不足人群的STEM研究生的数量和质量，重点是博士入学和完成。在美国高等教育机构实施的BD项目有助于实现美国国家科学基金会2018-2022年战略计划的目标之一，即“培养一支更有能力和多样化的研究队伍，提高国家的科学和创新技能”。这项资助的愿景是提供一个全国性的模式，以培养具有STEM博士学位的代表性不足的科学家和工程师。这次LSAMP BD活动的演出地点是北卡罗莱纳州a&t州立大学（NCAT），这是北卡罗莱纳州路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（NCLSAMP）计划的八所大学之一。该项目旨在吸引、留住和毕业一批代表性不足的STEM学科博士生，这些博士生具备职业准备技能和自我效能感，可以进入STEM劳动力市场。这种全面的研究生发展模式，包括STEM职业的学术和专业技能建设，以及有针对性的活动，涉及社会认知职业理论、自我效能和STEM研究身份等文献中反映的循证策略的精选组合。这些课程将结合以能力为基础的学术成功和职业准备研讨会，以及一个个性化的、文化反思的指导计划，该计划将学生与NCAT的教师和参与的同行机构联系起来。该项目将对博士项目中代表性不足的人群中STEM研究生的保留率和毕业率产生积极影响，从而产生多样化的STEM专业人才队伍。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 STEM workforce by developing highly competitive students from populations underrepresented in STEM disciplines: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. The goal of the LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Activity is to increase the quantity and quality of STEM graduate students from underrepresented populations, with emphasis on PhD matriculation and completion. BD programs implemented in the nation's institutions of higher education contribute to addressing one of the objectives of NSF's 2018-2022 Strategic Plan, namely to "foster the growth of a more capable and diverse research workforce and advance the scientific and innovation skills of the Nation." The vision of this grant is to provide a national model to produce underrepresented scientists and engineers with doctoral degrees in STEM.The performance site for this LSAMP BD Activity is North Carolina A&T State University (NCAT), one of the eight universities included in the North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NCLSAMP) program. This project is designed to attract, retain, and graduate a cohort of underrepresented PhD students in STEM disciplines equipped with career readiness skills and self-efficacy to enter the STEM workforce. This holistic graduate student development model, includes academic and professional skills building for STEM careers alongside targeted activities involving a select combination of evidence-based strategies reflected in the literature on social cognitive career theory, self-efficacy, and STEM research identity. These will be conducted through a combination of competency-based academic success and career readiness workshops and a personalized, culturally reflective mentoring program that connects students with faculty at NCAT and at participating peer institutions. This project will positively impact the retention and graduation rates of STEM graduate students from underrepresented populations in doctoral programs, thus producing a diverse workforce of STEM professionals.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.