Louis Stokes New STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: Urban Massachusetts LSAMP

这个马萨诸塞州城市LSAMP(UM-LSAMP)联盟旨在研究地理分布、数字连接的指导网络的影响，该网络旨在创建一种可持续的模式，以留住和支持马萨诸塞州东部七所公立机构STEM学科中代表性不足和种族小型化(URM)的学生：三所马萨诸塞大学四年制大学(波士顿、达特茅斯和洛厄尔)和四所地区性社区学院(布里斯托尔、邦克希尔、米德尔塞克斯和罗克斯伯里)。通过我们独特的包容性多代导师框架，UM-LSAMP联盟将为URM学生提供强大的：1)通过STEM推动社会变革的研究导师经验，2)通过STEM实习机会和与LSAMP校友STEM专业人员的虚拟导师关系来丰富职业生涯的导师，以及3)过渡导师和学生成功支持，以加强对STEM学位课程和职业的坚持。通过采用丰富的参与式混合方法纵向研究设计，该项目将在三个关键方面推进基础知识基础。首先，在该项目下进行的研究将使人们能够丰富地了解多代导师如何影响UM-LSAMP社区大学生的STEM归属感、身份发展和坚持性。其次，研究结果将有助于阐明在公平伦理框架下的指导研究经验如何促进URM学生通过STEM解决种族不平等的原则性承诺。第三，对项目活动的评价将阐明与关键指导经验相关的联盟活动如何促进机构一级的变革和联盟一级的变革。UM-LSAMP项目预计将提供变革性的解决方案，以建立有效的指导模式，促进URM学生在STEM中的成功。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。

This Urban Massachusetts LSAMP (UM-LSAMP) Alliance aims to examine the impact of a geographically-distributed, digitally-connected mentoring network that is designed to create a sustainable model for retaining and supporting Underrepresented and Racially Minoritized (URM) students in STEM disciplines at seven public institutions in Eastern Massachusetts: three University of Massachusetts four-year universities (Boston, Dartmouth, and Lowell) and four regional community colleges (Bristol, Bunker Hill, Middlesex, and Roxbury). Through our unique Inclusive Multigenerational Mentoring Framework, the UM-LSAMP Alliance will provide URM students with robust: 1) Research Mentorship experiences that advance social change through STEM, 2) Career Enrichment Mentorship through STEM internship opportunities and virtual mentorship with LSAMP alumni STEM professionals, as well as 3) Transitional Mentorship and Student Success Support to strengthen persistence into and through STEM degree programs and careers. By employing a rich participatory-based mixed-method longitudinal research design, this project will advance the fundamental knowledge base in three keyways. First, the research conducted under this project will enable rich learning about how multigenerational mentorship influences STEM belonging, identity development, and persistence among UM-LSAMP community college students. Second, the results of the research studies will help clarify how mentored research experiences, steeped in an equity ethic frame, promote URM students’ principled commitment for addressing racial inequities through STEM. Third, the evaluation of the project activities will clarify how the Alliance activities associated with the key mentorship experiences promote institutional-level change and Alliance-level change. The UM-LSAMP project is expected to offer transformative solutions for establishing effective models of mentoring that advance URM students’ success in STEM.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.