Louis Stokes New STEM Pathways Implementation-Only Alliance: Mountains to Sea North Carolina LSAMP

Louis Stokes少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)计划帮助大学和学院努力大幅增加科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科的高质量学位课程录取并成功完成的学生数量，以使STEM劳动力多样化。特别强调通过创新的、基于证据的招聘和保留战略以及相关的教育经验来转变本科STEM教育，以支持在STEM学科中代表性不足的人群：非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美国印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。这些战略有助于培养有充分准备的学生，他们有很高的资格和动力在STEM继续研究生教育或职业生涯。为了使美国保持全球竞争力，至关重要的是挖掘其公民的才华，并在支撑知识经济的STEM领域提供出色的教育准备。北卡罗来纳州从山到海的路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟(M2s NCLSAMP)计划组建了一个新的联盟，以应对对更多样化和更熟练的技术劳动力的需求。这种需要仍然存在，在北卡罗来纳州尤为迫切。组成联盟的五所公立综合性大学是阿巴拉契亚州立大学、东卡罗来纳大学、北卡罗来纳大学格林斯伯勒分校(LEAD)、北卡罗来纳大学威尔明顿大学和西卡罗来纳大学。联盟的目标是1)在联盟院校之间建立牢固的个人、专业和纪律关系；2)提供有针对性的包容性方案，重点支持联盟院校在学生成功道路上的关键时刻过渡；以及3)利用联盟资源为学生提供更多和更好的STEM社会化和职业发展机会，而不是他们在本国校园单独获得的机会。与匹配的非参与者学生相比，平行活动预计将使参与者保留率和毕业率提高20%，并通过LSAMP学生支持计划间接影响更多学生。此外，评估旨在提供有关中等规模公立大学如何合作识别、解决和改善学生支持方面的薄弱环节的新知识，特别是在目标学生人口不成比例地挣扎的关键过渡点。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 their efforts to significantly increase the numbers of students matriculating into and successfully completing high-quality degree programs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to diversify the STEM workforce. Particular emphasis is placed on transforming undergraduate STEM education through innovative, evidence-based recruitment and retention strategies, and relevant educational experiences in support of populations underrepresented in STEM disciplines: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. These strategies facilitate the production of well-prepared students who are highly qualified and motivated to pursue graduate education or careers in STEM.For the United States to remain globally competitive, it is vital to tap into its citizens' talent and provide exceptional educational preparedness in STEM areas that underpin the knowledge-based economy. The Mountain to Sea North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (M2S NCLSAMP) program has formed a new alliance in response to the need for a more diverse and skilled technical workforce. That need still exists and is particularly acute in the State of North Carolina. The five public comprehensive universities that make up the Alliance are Appalachian State University, East Carolina University, University of North Carolina Greensboro (lead), University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Western Carolina University. The goals of the Alliance are to 1) Build strong personal, professional, and disciplinary relationships across Alliance institutions; 2) Provide targeted, inclusive programming focused on supporting student transitions at critical moments in the student success pathway at Alliance institutions; and 3) Employ Alliance resources to provide more and better STEM socialization and professional development opportunities for students than they can receive on their home campuses alone. The parallel activities are projected to raise participant retention and graduation rates by 20% compared to matched non-participant students and indirectly affect many more through LSAMP student support programs available to all STEM students. In addition, assessment is designed to contribute new knowledge about how mid-sized public universities can work together to identify, address, and improve weaknesses in student support, especially at the key transition points at which the target student population disproportionally struggles.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.