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族裔参与联盟 (LSAMP) 的支持下，这项通往博士学位的桥梁 (BD) 活动将为来自多个 LSAMP 联盟的 12 名才华横溢的学生提供在 Prairie View A&M 大学 (PVAMU)（一所历史悠久的黑人学院和大学 (HBCU)）攻读电气工程（或 STEM 相关领域）博士学位的机会。 TAMUS LSAMP BD 项目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学位库，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 PVAMU 的 Marvin D. 和 June Samuel Brailsford 艺术与科学学院 (BCAS) 和 Roy G. Perry 工程学院 (RGPCOE) 之间的合作，三个 RGPCOE 系和一个 BCAS 系的 12 名首次研究生将作为一个群体社区进行为期两年的培养。研究员将受益于学术和个人发展活动以及社会支持计划，以维持他们在学位课程中的承诺和成功，并在 2025 年 8 月之前晋升为博士课程。TAMUS LSAMP BD 计划将增加 ​​LSAMP 群体中 STEM 博士的数量。目前，PVAMU 博士项目缺乏多样性。最终，该项目可能有助于使 PVAMU 及其他地区更多的 STEM 研究生群体多样化。 。 TAMUS LSAMP BD 的目标是培养研究员完成 STEM 博士学位的准备、动力和毅力，并为他们在完成博士课程后从事潜在的学术、研究、行业或政府 STEM 职业做好准备，从而促进学术成功。为了实现这一目标，TAMUS LSAMP BD 项目的目标包括 (1) 与美国其他 LSAMP 本科 STEM 项目建立招聘关系，(2) 转化从以前的 TAMUS LSAMP BTD 队列中汲取的最佳实践和经验教训，以促进 BD PVAMU 的成功，(3) 帮助研究员做好进入 PVAMU 和其他大学的博士课程的准备并应对完成博士课程的挑战，(4) 与其他高等教育机构建立合作伙伴关系， PVAMU BD 研究员为 STEM 博士项目提供多年资助，(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，以提高 URM 研究生的保留率和升读博士学位的能力。该项目将实施严格的活动培训计划，以循证理论和高等教育最佳实践为基础。其结果将是建立一个基础设施，提高 STEM 中代表性不足群体的学生的保留率和毕业率，为 HBCU 研究生成功的最佳实践策略做出贡献，并开发机会，促进 STEM 中代表性不足的研究生的教育和职业发展。由于 LSAMP 学士学位获得者的招聘池中包含很大一部分来自 LSAMP 人群的个人，因此该项目预计 LSAMP 博士桥梁研究员将是来自这些群体的学生。因此，该项目将为扩大学术和科学研究的参与做出重大贡献。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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.