Louis Stokes B2B Alliance: Harris County Community College Alliance (HCCCA)

路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟（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族裔(非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲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)成功完成高质量的STEM学位课程。LSAMP的哈里斯县社区学院联盟继续与两所授予副学士学位的公立西班牙服务两年制机构（圣哈辛托学院区和休斯顿社区学院）建立伙伴关系。该项目支持处于学术道路关键时刻的少数族裔学生，他们需要获得科学思维，将自己视为科学界的一员，并获得在两年制和四年制大学取得成功所需的研究技能。该计划将解决以下问题：通过一系列创新的模块来改变社区大学生的教育研究经历，这些模块可以培养研究能力和科学思维，提供对研究过程的理解，并培养一系列可转移的技能；并通过学术社区、环境和对STEM职业和职业的探索，培养少数族裔学生的科学身份。哈里斯县社区学院联盟模式促进了一种科学自我认同和心态，鼓励少数族裔学生探索新的学术追求和职业选择，从而获得高级学士学位课程。这种联盟模式将通过以下方式实现。招募——通过一系列公开演讲、活动和针对少数族裔学生的定向电子邮件，接触到至少3000名学生；这些活动旨在使更多的学生了解科学知识、研究和职业的重要性。参与-为至少450名学者提供获得可转移到当前课程和未来研究机会的研究技能的机会。学生将通过完成STEM研究能力和熟练程度模块参与研究探索，调查和经验。这些模块介绍了研究理论和实践，涵盖了广泛学科的概念和技能。坚持不懈——提供第一年的学者指导、教师指导、点对点指导和学习社区，以抵消学术道路上代表性不足/服务不足的学者的低坚持率。这些学术性、创造性和包容性的环境将使持久性提高至少75%；坚持包括在社区大学继续学习，转到四年制大学，然后毕业。可转学性——通过课程规划、指导路径、转学建议、转学促进活动、金融知识指导，以及利用四年制大学的LSAMP校友作为转学渠道，将另外1083名STEM学生转学到四年制大学。这些策略将使哈里斯县社区学院联盟的LSAMP项目能够扩大追求和参与科学、技术、工程和数学研究的未被充分代表和服务不足的学生的数量，使有潜力解决社会和技术挑战的学生群体多样化。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 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 degree programs in STEM. The Harris County Community College Alliance of LSAMP continues its partnership between two public, associate-degree granting, Hispanic Serving two-year institutions (San Jacinto College District and Houston Community College). This program supports underrepresented minority students at a critical point in their academic pathway when they need to acquire a scientific mindset, see themselves as members of the scientific community, and gain the research skills required to succeed at two- and four-year institutions. This program will address the following: transform community college students’ educational research experiences through an innovative series of modules that build research abilities and a scientific mindset, provide an understanding of the research process and develop a range of transferable skills; and cultivate a science identity in underrepresented minority students through scholarly communities, environments, and exploration of STEM careers and occupations. The Harris County Community College Alliance model promotes a science self-identity and mindset that encourages underrepresented minority students to explore new academic pursuits and career options leading to upper division baccalaureate degree programs. This alliance model will be accomplished in the following ways. Recruitment—reach at least 3,000 students through a series of public presentations, events, and targeted emails to underrepresented minority students; these events are designed to increase the number of students who understand the importance of scientific knowledge, research, and careers. Engagement—provide opportunities to at least 450 scholars to gain research skills transferable to current course work and future research opportunities. Students will participate in research exploration, investigation, and experiences by completing STEM Research Abilities and Proficiencies modules. These modules introduce research theory and practice that cover concepts and skills for a broad spectrum of disciplines. Persistence—offer first-year Scholar mentoring, faculty mentoring, peer-to-peer mentoring, and learning communities to counteract the low persistence rate of underrepresented/underserved scholars in their academic pathways. These scholarly, creative, and inclusive environments will increase persistence by at least 75%; persistence includes continuing their studies at the community college, transferring to a four-year institution, and graduating. Transferability—transition and transfer an additional 1,083 STEM students to four-year institutions through course mapping, guided pathways, transfer advising, transfer-promoting events, financial literacy guidance, and utilization of LSAMP alumni at four-year universities as a transfer pipeline. These strategies will allow the Harris County Community College Alliance of LSAMP program to expand the number of underrepresented and underserved students pursuing and participating in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics research, diversifying the pool of students with the potential to address societal and technological challenges.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.