Louis Stokes Renewal STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: LSAMP Alaska Alliance

在路易·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)的支持下，阿拉斯加大学安克雷奇大学将在STEM专业领域对阿拉斯加原住民的招聘模式进行系统性的改变。在我们的STEM项目中，大约有3,000名学生。自2001年首次颁发LSAMP奖以来，该联盟已使1,296名少数族裔STEM学生毕业，并使代表性不足的STEM学生获得学士学位的人数从LSAMP之前的16.7人增加到64.8人。阿拉斯加联盟包括阿拉斯加大学系统内的所有19个校区。这项努力的重点是通过彻底消除少数族裔学生不是理工科学生的观念来实现系统性变革；鼓励学生在初中和高中完成高级科学和数学课程，并培养学生，使他们在进入大学时在社会和学术上为攻读理工科学士学位做好充分准备。这个LSAMP联盟是对一个多阶段机构倡议的本科生部分的支持，该倡议旨在准备和支持阿拉斯加原住民学生和其他少数民族从中学到研究生院，以在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)职业生涯中取得成功。该项目的目标是：1.在高中和大学之间以及从本科生到研究生的过渡阶段，继续扩大我们与Summer Bridge所做的工作；2.扩大我们的本科生研究能力，并建设我们进行国际研究的能力；3.加强我们在更多联盟社区校园的存在；4.完成评估我们纵向模型有效性的内部和外部研究研究。传播工作将包括在网站上公布联盟影响的成果、在会议上发言和提交期刊文章。LSAMP计划对学生的发展和留住采取了全面的方法。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生的STEM教育，以支持历史上在STEM学科中代表性不足的种族和族裔群体。因此，该项目将大大有助于扩大对学术和科学研究的参与。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。

With support from the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) this STEM Pathways and Research Alliance (SPRA) from the lead institution, the University of Alaska Anchorage will effect a systemic change in the hiring patterns of Alaska Natives in the STEM professions. There are approximately 3,000 students in our STEM pipeline. Since the first LSAMP award in 2001, the Alliance has graduated 1,296 minority STEM students and increased bachelor degree attainment from underrepresented STEM students from a pre-LSAMP number of 16.7 to 64.8. The Alaska Alliance includes all 19 campuses within the University of Alaska system. The focus of the effort is to effect systemic change by eradicating forever the belief that minority students are not science and engineering material; inspiring students to complete advanced science and math coursework in middle and high school, and developing students so they are socially and academically hyper-prepared for BS STEM degrees when they arrive at the university. This LSAMP Alliance serves as a support for the undergraduate portion of a multi-stage institutional initiative designed to prepare and support Alaska Native students and other minorities from middle school through graduate school to succeed in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers. The project goals are to 1. Continue to expand the work we are doing with Summer Bridge at the transitions between high school and college, and from undergraduate to graduate school; 2. Expand our capacity for undergraduate research and build our capacity to conduct international research; 3. Strengthen our presence on additional Alliance Community campuses; 4. Complete internal and external research studies assessing the effectiveness of our longitudinal model. Dissemination efforts will include publishing results of the impacts of the Alliance on a website, presentations at conferences, and submitting journal articles. The LSAMP program takes a comprehensive approach to student development and retention. 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. Therefore, the project will contribute significantly to broadening participation in academe and science research.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.