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

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，以实现STEM劳动力的多样化。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学科中历来代表性不足的种族和族裔群体：黑人和非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔和拉丁裔美国人、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准备充分的学生，这些学生非常合格，有动力在STEM攻读研究生教育或职业生涯。培养STEM人才的需求已经确立。美国要想保持全球竞争力，就必须挖掘其所有公民的才能，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)领导的密西西比州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟(LSMAMP)将支持其博士学位之桥(BD)项目的第16批。一个全面的计划存在，培养了12名BD研究员，不仅完成了他们的硕士学位要求，而且还完成了STEM博士学位。这项为期两年的计划将包括授课学习和教员领导的研究活动，在该机构核心多用户研究实验室中的最先进设施和设备上进行动手实验室培训，并与其他联邦、私人和非营利组织合作。丰富活动包括STEM演讲者系列、社区服务、专业发展讲习班。形成性和终结性的评估结果将被广泛传播，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。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 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.