AMP: Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation (LAMP)

路易斯安那州少数族裔参与联盟（LAMP）是一项全州范围内的综合协调计划，旨在大幅提高获得科学、工程和数学（SEM）领域学士学位的少数族裔学生的数量和质量。从长远来看，该项目设计将导致美国研究生院少数族裔SEM研究生入学率的显著增加。据估计，到1999年，路易斯安那州的院校将增加到500所，少数族裔的本科SEM入学人数，而全国研究生入学人数将增加到100人。LAMP战略的核心是加强和协调路易斯安那州各机构现有的SEM管道活动，支持本科生的研究活动，并引入全州和地区的战略性学术和研究活动，以促进网络和技术交流。LAMP的实施将继续扩展该州的SEM基础设施，并加入路易斯安那州董事会协调的几个系统倡议和EPSCoR项目。12个机构最初将管理各种以校园为基础的项目，并参与几个全州和地区项目。南方大学和A&amp；M学院，LAMP的领导机构是1890年的土地赠款大学，拥有全国公认的物理教育系统模式，根据最近法院批准的和解协议，计划在未来10年内开发科学和数学教育，材料科学，生物医学科学以及管理和信息系统的博士学位课程。南方大学系统（Southern University System）是巴吞鲁日、新奥尔良和什里夫波特等主要大都市地区的南方大学校园的家长组织，招收了路易斯安那州36%以上的非裔美国大学本科生。南方大学和A&amp；M学院将在全州范围内提供一系列校园协调的少数民族参与促进活动的管理领导。格兰布林州立大学，路易斯安那州第四所公立HBCU，以及新奥尔良的私立泽维尔大学和迪拉德大学都将是LAMP的积极参与机构。格兰布林州立大学、南方大学、农工学院、泽维尔大学和新奥尔良大学的RCMS项目将与LAMP合作，并作为向路易斯安那州其他机构推广的典范。路易斯安那州立大学、西南路易斯安那州杜兰大学、新奥尔良大学、南方大学和农工学院将管理本科/研究生衔接项目，并利用增加的SEM本科学位生产项目。鉴于最近的高等教育废除种族隔离和解协议，这些令人印象深刻的预测是保守的，该协议承诺大量的国家资源，通过建立新的研究生项目，资助其他种族的招聘和奖学金，并支持机构之间的衔接，加速州立HBCU机构向综合研究生地位的运动。扩大大学校园多样性的计划为实现LAMP的目标提供了额外的资源，包括改善设施、增加学生支持和加强教师/导师支持系统。LAMP的建立填补了美国SEM管道的一个关键缺口。LAMP的实施使国家在很大程度上实现了到2000年每年授予5万个本科学位和2000个博士学位的目标。路易斯安那州相对较大的非裔美国人人口使该州处于独特的地位，可以为国家增加少数民族参与SEM企业的目标做出重大贡献。这一申请的时机使得前所未有的联邦/州协同作用成为可能，从而大大增加了与NSF AMP目标一致的资源和项目开发活动。

9550765 Ford The Louisiana Alliance for Minority Participation (LAMP) is a comprehensive statewide coordinated program aimed at substantially increasing the number and quality of minority students earning baccalaureate degrees in science, engineering and mathematics (SEM) areas. In the long term, the program design will lead to significant increase in minority SEM graduate enrollment in U.S. graduate schools. It is estimated that Louisiana institutions will increase to 500, the minority undergraduate SEM enrollment, while increasing graduate enrollment nationally to 100, by 1999. LAMP strategy centers on enhancing and coordinating existing SEM pipeline activities at Louisiana institutions, supporting undergraduate student research activities and introducing strategic statewide and regional academic and research activities to promote networking and technology exchanges. The LAMP implementation would continue the expansion of the State's SEM infrastructure and join the several systemic initiatives and EPSCoR programs coordinated through the Louisiana Board of Regents. Twelve institutions initially will manage a variety of campus-based programs and participate in several statewide and regional projects. Southern University and A&M College, the LAMP lead institution is an 1890 Land Grant university with a nationally recognized systemic model for physics education and is slated, under a recently court approved settlement agreement, to develop doctorate degree programs in Science and Mathematics Education, Material Science, Biomedical Sciences and in Administration and Information Systems over the next 10 years. Southern University System, parent organization to Souther University campuses in the major metropolitan areas of Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Shreveport, enrolls more than 36% of all African American college undergraduates in the State of Louisiana. Southern University and A&M College will provide management leadership to array of campus coordina ted minority participation enhancement activities around the State. Grambling State University, the fourth public Louisiana HBCU, as well as private Xavier University and Dillard University, both of New Orleans will be active LAMP participating institutions. RCMS projects at grambling State University, Southern University and A&M College, Xavier University and the University of New Orleans will collaborate with LAMP and serve as models for transporting to other Louisiana institutions. Louisiana State University, Tulane University, of Southwestern Louisiana, University of New Orleans and Southern University and A&M College will manage programs at the undergraduate/graduate interface and harness the projects of increased SEM undergraduate degree production. These impressive projections are conservative in view of a recent higher education desegregation settlement agreement pledging substantial state resources to expedite the movement of state HBCU institutions toward comprehensive graduate status through establishment of new graduate programs, fund other race recruitment and scholarships, and support articulation among institutions. The plan for expanding diversity on college campuses makes available additional resources to meet the goals of the LAMP, including improved facilities, increased student support and enhanced faculty/mentor support systems. Establishing LAMP closes a critical gap in the nation's SEM pipeline. Implementation of the LAMP moves the nation substantially toward its goal of awarding 50,000 undergraduate degrees and 2,000 doctorate degrees annually by 2000. Louisiana relatively large African-American population puts the State in a unique position to make significant contributions to the nations goal of increased minority participation in the SEM enterprise. the timing of this application makes it possible for unprecedented federal/state synergism to result in substantially increased resources and program development activities consis tent with NSF AMP goals.