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

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。南佛罗里达大学(USF)是佛罗里达州-佐治亚州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟(FGLSAMP)的合作机构，将成为该联盟2023-2025年博士学位(BD)机构所在地的桥梁。该项目响应了对日益跨学科和全球科学和工程的需求，以重振国内培养的STEM博士科学家和工程师人才库。2023年至2025年FGLSAMP BD活动将促进增加智力交流，促进USF STEM所有部门之间的更大多样性和包容性，既发扬FGLSAMP以往的成功经验，又发扬USF作为全球研究型大学的卓越地位，将LSAMP人口研究生的学术和社会融合、全面学者发展和科学专业化方面的循证实践制度化。2023-2025年USF FGLSAMP BD活动的可衡量目标将包括：1)在2023年秋季之前招募十二(12)名LSAMP校友作为BD参与者进入STEM研究生课程(硕士或博士)；2)实施分层和同行指导计划模式，以及促进BD和本科生留住以及STEM研究职业生涯的外联举措；(3)促进参与者的心理健康、个人和财务健康；以及(4)实现100%留住STEM研究生课程。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，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，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.