LSAMP - Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation

桃州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟项目概述桃州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟(PSLSAMP)是佐治亚州七所大学支持的一项合作努力，目的是增加全州范围内完成科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域本科学位的少数族裔学生人数。格鲁吉亚正在经历人口的爆炸性增长，同时采取有利于战略和技术领域的经济发展的政策。迫切需要具有强大技术技能的大学毕业生。人们还广泛认识到，任职人数不足的少数群体必须大力参与满足这一需要。目前的提案由佐治亚大学与班布里奇学院、福特谷州立大学、佐治亚州周长学院、梅肯州立学院、萨凡纳州立大学和南方理工大学密切合作制定，提交给国家科学基金会，并要求在五年内每年提供100万美元，以支持联盟范围内的方案和基于校园的个别方案。主要影响将是加强招收和留住少数族裔学生，并使参与大学中获得STEM学科学士学位的此类学生总数翻一番。接受过技术和科学培训的美国大学毕业生的短缺是有据可查的，进入大学学习STEM专业的美国学生比例一直在稳步下降。如果美国要保持其经济领导地位、安全和生活质量，加强STEM劳动力及其领导力是一个优先关注的问题。为非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和其他代表性不足的少数族裔在这些领域的职业生涯做好准备，是满足这些需求的大多数战略的合乎逻辑的组成部分。在像佐治亚州这样一个少数民族占该州人口约34%的州，它有一个压倒性的令人信服的逻辑。提高少数民族在本科生STEM领域的参与度是一个复杂的问题。在格鲁吉亚，为解决这一问题制定全州范围的动态计划首先需要非常不同类型的机构密切合作，以实现培养少数族裔STEM毕业生的共同长期目标。目前的提议是这种机构间合作的结果。除了主要影响之外，PSLSAMP计划还将：提供旨在激励学生深造的机会，为学生进入研究生院做好准备，强调STEM领域的职业机会，让教职员工参与规划过程和专业发展活动，以确保制度化，并在佐治亚州的机构和组织之间建立真正的合作伙伴关系。佐治亚大学将代表桃州联盟担任牵头机构和受托代理机构，研究科学家迈克尔·亚当斯校长将担任首席调查员和理事会主席。理事会以及指导委员会和研究人员将为联盟提供智力领导。

Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Project Summary The Peach State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (PSLSAMP) is a collaborative effort sustained by seven universities in Georgia to increase the number of underrepresented minority students statewide who complete undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. Georgia is experiencing explosive population growth while embracing policies that favor economic development in strategic, technology-oriented fields. There is a compelling need for college graduates with strong technical skills. There is also wide recognition that underrepresented minorities must participate significantly in meeting this need. The current proposal, developed by the University of Georgia in close collaboration with Bainbridge College, Fort Valley State University, Georgia Perimeter College, Macon State College, Savannah State University, and Southern Polytechnic University, is submitted to the National Science Foundation and requests $1,000,000 per year for five years to support Alliance-wide and individual campus-based programming. The primary impacts will be to enhance the recruitment and retention of minority students and double the number of such students at participating universities overall who earn bachelor.s degrees in STEM disciplines. Intellectual Merit The shortage of American college graduates with technical and scientific training is well documented, and the percentage of U.S. students entering colleges and universities with the intention of majoring in STEM fields has steadily declined. Strengthening the STEM workforce and its leadership is a priority concern if the U.S. is to maintain its economic leadership, security and quality of life. Preparing African Americans, Hispanic Americans and other underrepresented minorities for careers in these fields is a logical component of most strategies to address these needs. It has an overwhelmingly compelling logic in a state like Georgia where these minorities make up approximately 34% of the state.s population. Improving minority involvement in undergraduate STEM fields is a complex problem. In Georgia, the development of a dynamic statewide plan to address this problem requires initially that very different types of institutions cooperate closely to achieve a shared, long-term goal in terms of the production of minority STEM graduates. The current proposal is the result of such inter-institutional collaboration. Broader Impacts In addition to its primary impacts, PSLSAMP programs will: Provide opportunities designed to motivate students to pursue advanced study, Prepare students for graduate school, Emphasize career opportunities in STEM fields, Engage faculty and staff in the planning process and in professional development activities to ensure institutionalization, and Create a genuine partnership among institutions and organizations within Georgia. The University of Georgia will serve as the lead institution and fiduciary agent on behalf of the Peach State Alliance and President Michael Adams, a research scientist himself, will serve as the principal investigator and chair of the Governing Board. The Governing Board, along with the Steering Committee and research faculty, will provide intellectual leadership to the Alliance.