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)

在路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）的支持下，这座桥梁博士学位（BD）活动将为来自多个LSAMP联盟的12名才华横溢的学生提供机会，在Prairie View AM University（PVAMU），一所历史悠久的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）攻读电气工程博士学位（或STEM相关领域）。TAMUS LSAMP BD计划旨在增加历史上在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科中代表性不足的群体的博士人才库，并在PVAMU内创建一个跨STEM学科的有凝聚力的研究生社区。通过Marvin D.和六月塞缪尔布雷尔斯福德艺术与科学学院（BCAS）和罗伊G。PVAMU的佩里工程学院（RGPCOE），三个RGPCOE部门和一个BCAS部门的12名首次研究生将作为一个队列社区培养两年。研究员将受益于学术和个人发展活动和社会支持的计划，以维持他们的承诺和成功，在他们的学位课程和博士课程的进展到2025年8月。TAMUS LSAMP BD计划将增加LSAMP人群的STEM博士库。目前，PVAMU博士课程缺乏多样性。最终，该项目可能有助于使PVAMU及其他地区的STEM研究生群体多样化。. TAMUS LSAMP BD的目标是通过发展研究员的准备，动机和毅力来完成STEM博士学位，并为他们在完成博士课程后的潜在学术，研究，行业或政府STEM职业做好准备，以促进学术成功。为了实现这一目标，TAMUS LSAMP BD计划的目标包括：（1）与美国其他LSAMP本科STEM计划建立关系，以进行招聘;（2）将TAMUS LSAMP BTD队列的最佳实践和经验教训转化为BD PVAMU的成功，（3）准备研究员获得录取，并满足在PVAMU和其他大学完成研究博士课程的挑战，（4）与其他高等教育机构建立伙伴关系，将PVAMU BD研究员置于STEM博士课程中，并提供多年资助，（5）为研究员提供未来STEM职业的领导力和可转移技能，以及（6）传播和推进成功策略的发现，以增加URM研究生的保留和博士学位的进展。该项目将实施一项严格的培训计划，以高等教育中的循证理论和最佳实践为依据。其结果将是一个基础设施，用于提高学生的保留率和毕业率，这些学生来自STEM中代表性不足的群体，为HBCU研究生成功的最佳实践策略做出贡献，并开发机会，从而提高STEM中代表性不足的研究生的教育和职业水平。由于LSAMP学士学位获得者的招聘库包括来自LSAMP人口的高比例个人，该项目预计LSAMP博士学位研究员的桥梁将是来自这些群体的学生。该奖项反映了NSF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。

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.