LSAMP BD: Prairie View A&M University BTD Cohort XIV (2023-2025) Program, Texas A&M University System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TAMUS LSAMP)

在Louis Stokes少数民族参与联盟(LSAMP)的支持下，这一通往博士学位的桥梁(BD)活动将为来自多个LSAMP联盟的12名有才华的学生提供在草原景观农工大学(PVAMU)攻读电气工程(或STEM相关领域)博士学位的机会，PVAMU是一所历史上的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)。TAMUS LSAMP BD项目旨在增加在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科中历来代表性不足的群体中的博士人数，并在PVAMU内创建一个跨STEM学科的研究生群体。通过马文·D和琼·塞缪尔·布雷斯福德艺术与科学学院(BCAS)和PVAMU罗伊·G·佩里工程学院(RGPCOE)之间的合作，三个RGPCOE系和一个BCAS系的12名第一次研究生将作为一个队列社区进行为期两年的培养。奖学金获得者将受益于一项学术和个人发展活动以及社会支持计划，以维持他们在学位计划中的承诺和成功，并在2025年8月之前向博士课程迈进。TAMUS LSAMP BD计划将增加LSAMP人群中的STEM博士人数。目前，PVAMU博士项目缺乏多样性。最终，这个项目可能有助于使PVAMU和其他地方更多的STEM研究生群体多样化。。TAMUS LSAMP BD的目标是通过培养学员完成STEM博士学位的准备、动力和毅力，并在完成博士课程后为潜在的学术、研究、行业或政府STEM职业生涯做好准备，促进学术成功。为了实现这一目标，TAMUS LSAMP BD项目的目标包括(1)与全美其他LSAMP本科STEM项目建立招聘关系，(2)转化从以前的TAMUS LSAMP BTD队列中吸取的最佳做法和经验教训，以促进BD PVAMU的成功，(3)准备研究员进入PVAMU和其他大学完成博士课程并迎接挑战，(4)与其他高等教育机构发展伙伴关系，以多年资助将PVAMU BD研究员安排在STEM博士项目中，(5)为研究员配备领导力和可转移的技能，用于未来的STEM职业生涯，以及(6)传播和推进发现成功的战略，以增加URM研究生的留住和博士学位的升迁。该项目将实施一项严格的活动培训方案，这些活动借鉴了基于证据的理论和高等教育的最佳做法。其结果将是为提高STEM中任职人数不足的学生的留校率和毕业率奠定基础，为HBCU研究生成功的最佳实践战略做出贡献，并开发机会，帮助STEM中任职人数不足的研究生获得教育和职业发展。由于LSAMP学士学位获得者的招聘库中包括来自LSAMP人群的高比例个人，该项目预计LSAMP通向博士研究生的桥梁将是来自这些群体的学生。因此，该项目将大大有助于扩大对学术和科学研究的参与。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。

With support from the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) this Bridge to Doctorate (BD) Activity will offer 12 talented students from multiple LSAMP alliances the opportunity to pursue a doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering (or in a STEM-related field) at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), a historically black college and university (HBCU). The TAMUS LSAMP BD program aims to increase the pool of PhDs from groups historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and create a cohesive community of graduate students across STEM disciplines within PVAMU. Through collaborations between the Marvin D. and June Samuel Brailsford College of Arts and Sciences (BCAS) and the Roy G. Perry College of Engineering (RGPCOE) at PVAMU, twelve first-time graduate students in three RGPCOE departments and one BCAS department will be nurtured for two years as a cohort community. The Fellows will benefit from a program of academic and personal development activities and social support, to sustain their commitment and success in their degree programs and advancement toward doctoral programs by August 2025. The TAMUS LSAMP BD program will increase the pool of STEM PhDs from LSAMP populations. Currently, the PVAMU PhD programs lack diversity. Eventually, this project may help diversify the larger STEM graduate student populations at PVAMU and beyond. . The goal of the TAMUS LSAMP BD is to foster academic success by developing Fellows’ readiness, motivation, and fortitude to complete STEM doctoral degrees and by preparing them for potential academic, research, industry, or government STEM careers upon completion of doctoral programs. To accomplish this goal, the TAMUS LSAMP BD program’s objectives include (1) building relationships with other LSAMP undergraduate STEM programs across the U.S. for recruitment, (2) translating best practices and lessons learned from previous TAMUS LSAMP BTD cohorts to foster the success of BD PVAMU, (3) preparing Fellows to gain admission into and meet the challenges of completing doctoral programs of study at PVAMU and other universities, (4) developing partnerships with other higher education institutions to place PVAMU BD Fellows in STEM doctoral programs with multi-year funding, (5) equipping Fellows with leadership and transferable skills for future STEM careers, and (6) disseminating and advancing the discovery of successful strategies to increase URM graduate student retention and progression to doctoral degrees. The project will implement a rigorous training program of activities informed by evidence-based theory and best practices in higher education. The result will be an infrastructure for increased retention and graduation rates of students from groups underrepresented in STEM, contributions to best-practice strategies for graduate student success at HBCUs, and the development of opportunities that lead to educational and career enhancements of graduate students who are underrepresented in STEM. As the recruitment pool of LSAMP baccalaureate recipients includes a high proportion of individuals from LSAMP populations, the project anticipates that LSAMP Bridge to Doctorate Fellows will be students from these groups. Therefore, the project will contribute significantly to broadening participation in academe and science research.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.