2023 LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate: Mississippi LSAMP - Host Site: Jackson State University

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努力显著增加进入科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科并成功完成高质量学位课程的学生人数，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策略，以及相关的教育经验来改变本科STEM教育，以支持在STEM学科中历史上代表性不足的种族和族裔群体：黑人和非裔美国人、西班牙裔和拉丁裔美国人、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。这些策略有助于培养准备充分、高素质、有动力追求STEM研究生教育或职业生涯的学生。培养STEM人才的需求已经确立。美国要保持全球竞争力，至关重要的是要挖掘所有公民的才能，并在支撑知识经济的STEM领域提供卓越的教育准备。由杰克逊州立大学（JSU）领导的路易斯·斯托克斯密西西比少数民族参与联盟（LSMAMP）将支持其博士学位桥梁（BD）项目的第16届队列。一个全面的项目存在，培养12名BD研究员，不仅要完成他们的硕士学位要求，还要完成STEM博士学位。这个为期两年的项目将包括教学学习，参与教师主导的研究活动，在最先进的设施和设备中进行动手实验室培训，这些设施和设备位于该机构的CORE多用户研究实验室，并与其他联邦、私人和非营利组织合作。丰富的活动包括STEM演讲系列、社区服务、专业发展工作坊。形成性和总结性评估结果将广泛传播，以支持将该模式复制到寻求使STEM研究生教育项目和国家STEM劳动力多样化的其他研究生项目中。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 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 in order 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 racial and ethnic groups historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines: Blacks and African Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. These strategies facilitate the production of well-prepared students, highly qualified and motivated to pursue graduate education or careers in STEM. The need for cultivating STEM talent has been well established. For the United States to remain globally competitive, it is vital that it taps into the talent of all its citizens and provides exceptional educational preparedness in STEM areas that underpin the knowledge-based economy. The Louis Stokes Mississippi Alliance for Minority Participation (LSMAMP), led by Jackson State University (JSU), will support Cohort 16 of its Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) program. A comprehensive program exists that develops a cohort of twelve BD Fellows to not only complete their M.S. degree requirements, but also the STEM doctoral degree. The two-year program will consist of didactic learning with engaged faculty-led research activities in hands-on laboratory training at state-of-the-art facilities and equipment housed in CORE multi-user research laboratories the institution and in collaboration with other federal, private and non-profit organizations. Enrichment activities include STEM speaker series, community service, professional development workshops. Formative and summative evaluation results will be disseminated broadly to support replication of the model to other graduate programs seeking to diversify STEM graduate education programs and the nation's STEM workforce.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.