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

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划协助大学和学院努力显著增加学生入学人数并成功完成科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科的高质量学位课程，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，以及支持在STEM学科中代表性不足的人口的相关教育经验来转变本科STEM教育：非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔美国人，美洲印第安人，阿拉斯加原住民，夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民。这些战略有利于生产准备充分的学生高素质和积极性追求研究生教育或职业生涯在STEM。对于美国保持全球竞争力，至关重要的是，它利用其所有公民的人才，并提供特殊的教育准备在STEM领域，支撑知识经济。密苏里州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（MOLSAMP）计划已经形成了一个联盟，以应对对更多样化和熟练的技术劳动力的需求。这种需要仍然存在，在密苏里州尤为严重。联盟的组成机构多种多样，包括作为高等商学院牵头机构的哈里斯-斯托州立大学、作为高等商学院牵头机构的林肯大学、密苏里州立大学、杜鲁门州立大学、中密苏里州大学、密苏里-哥伦比亚大学、密苏里-圣路易斯大学、圣路易斯社区学院系统和华盛顿大学。通过这个项目，联盟将实施活动，通过提高保留率，参与本科研究，以及从九个联盟机构获得STEM学位的历史上代表性不足的人口总数，来支持学生的成功。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 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.