LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate: University of South Florida, Florida-Georgia LSAMP (FGLSAMP)

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。南佛罗里达大学（USF）是佛罗里达-乔治亚州路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（FGLSAMP）的合作机构，将作为该联盟2023-2025年博士学位（BD）机构网站的桥梁。该项目响应了日益跨学科和全球科学与工程的需求，以振兴国内培养的STEM博士科学家和工程师的国家人才库。2023-2025年的FGLSAMP BD活动将促进所有USF STEM部门之间的知识交流，促进更大的多样性和包容性，以FGLSAMP之前的成功和USF作为全球研究型大学的卓越地位为基础，将学术和社会整合、综合学者发展和LSAMP研究生科学专业的实证实践制度化。2023-2025年USF FGLSAMP BD活动的可衡量目标将包括：1)在2023年秋季之前招募12名LSAMP校友作为BD参与者进入STEM研究生项目（硕士或博士）；2)实施分层和同伴指导计划模式，以及推广活动，以促进BD和本科生的保留以及STEM研究事业；(3)促进参与者的心理健康、个人和经济健康；(4)实现STEM研究生项目100%的保留率。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 University of South Florida (USF), partner institution in the Florida-Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (FGLSAMP), will serve as the 2023-2025 Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) institutional site for the alliance. The project responds to the need for increasingly interdisciplinary and global science and engineering to revitalize the nation's talent pool of domestically trained STEM doctoral scientists and engineers. The 2023-2025 FGLSAMP BD Activity will facilitate increased intellectual exchange and promote greater diversity and inclusion across all USF STEM departments, build upon both FGLSAMP's prior successes and USF's preeminence as a global research university, institutionalize evidence-based practices in the academic and social integration, comprehensive scholar development, and professionalization in the sciences of graduate students from LSAMP populations. Measurable objectives for the 2023-2025 USF FGLSAMP BD Activity will include: 1) recruitment of twelve (12) LSAMP alumni as BD participants by fall 2023 into STEM graduate programs (MS or PhD); 2) implementing a hierarchical and peer mentoring program model along with outreach initiatives to promote BD and undergraduate retention and STEM research careers; (3) fostering mental health, personal and financial well-being of the participants;and (4) achieving 100% retention in graduate STEM programs.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.