Missouri Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (MOLSAMP): Scaling Knowledge and Skill Sets of Underrepresented Minority Students in STEM Across the State of Missouri

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学科中代表性不足的人群：非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、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接受研究生教育或从事职业生涯。美国要保持全球竞争力，至关重要的是要挖掘其所有公民的才华，并在支撑知识经济的STEM领域提供出色的教育准备。密苏里州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟(MOLSAMP)计划成立了一个联盟，以应对对更多样化和更熟练的技术劳动力的需求。这种需要仍然存在，在密苏里州尤为迫切。组成联盟的机构多种多样，包括哈里斯-斯托州立大学，HBCU和牵头机构，林肯大学，HBCU；密苏里州大学；杜鲁门州立大学；密苏里州中部大学；密苏里州哥伦比亚大学；密苏里大学-圣彼得堡大学。圣路易斯社区学院系统和华盛顿大学。通过这一项目，联盟将开展活动，通过提高留校率、参与本科生研究以及从联盟九所院校毕业获得STEM学位的历史上人数不足的人口总数，支持学生取得成功。通过这一努力，参与该项目的研究人员相信，改进的结果将加强密苏里州的STEM劳动力，并最终为美国的国家安全做出贡献。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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 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 populations underrepresented in STEM disciplines: African Americans, Hispanic 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.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 Missouri Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (MOLSAMP) program has formed an alliance in response to the need for a more diverse and skilled technical workforce. That need still exists and is particularly acute in the State of Missouri. The institutions that make up the Alliance are diverse and include Harris-Stowe State University, an HBCU and lead institution, Lincoln University, an HBCU; Missouri State University; Truman State University; University of Central Missouri; University of Missouri-Columbia; University of Missouri-St. Louis; the St. Louis Community College System; and Washington University. Through this project, the Alliance will implement activities to support student success by improving retention, participation in undergraduate research, and the overall number of historically underrepresented populations graduating with STEM degrees from the nine Alliance institutions. Through this effort, researchers involved in this project believe that the improved results will strengthen the STEM workforce in Missouri and ultimately contribute to America's national security.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.