Puerto Rico-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, Phase IV: Sustaining Numerical Goals and Building Permanent Pathways to Graduate Studies

波多黎各路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟（PR-LSAMP）第四阶段是在过去15年联盟成功的基础上，增加了合格的、未被充分代表的少数族裔参与科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）工作的人数。第一阶段和第二阶段的重点是修订STEM课程，以强调理解的深度，促进主动学习，结合技术，并培养广泛的数学技能。指导和研究活动是联盟项目本科学生入学的标准支持活动。在第三阶段，该联盟通过开发交互式网络学习来掌握困难的概念，开发电子模块来扩展本科生的跨学科能力，扩大成功的教学/学习策略，培养STEM学生的信息技术技能，并扩大研究和指导计划，以包括大量的学生。在第四阶段，PR-LSAMP将通过其系统、综合和协作的方法，建立在改善STEM教育的制度举措的基础上，将：(1)继续增加STEM学科学生的学士学位；(2)继续增加完成STEM领域博士课程的学生人数；(3)维持每年从PR-LSAMP院校毕业的STEM学士学位人数，以提供大量的STEM研究生学位；(4)维持和加强已被证明成功的直接学生支持策略，例如本科生研究经验和指导，以留住和激励STEM本科生攻读研究生课程；(5)维持不同PR-LSAMP院校STEM教师之间的合作网络，以交流和指导实施成功的策略，以提高教学和学习过程。一个详细的跟踪系统已经到位，以跟踪博士学位桥梁（BD）研究员的进展。PR-LSAMP跟踪研究员在参加BD项目和进入博士项目以及完成博士学位和进入劳动力市场期间的学术进展。该联盟包括波多黎各大学系统，其中包括两个研究生中心（UPR- rio Piedras和UPR Mayaguez）；6个四年制校园（Humacao, Cayey, Arecibo， Aguadilla和Bayamon）和美洲大学系统，其中包括两个四年制机构（Bayamon和Metro）。

The Puerto Rico Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (PR-LSAMP), Phase IV, builds on the successes of the alliances over the past 15 years in increasing the number of qualified, underrepresented minorities participating in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. Phase I and II focused on the revision of the STEM curriculum to emphasize depth of understanding, promote active learning, incorporate technology, and develop broad-based mathematics skills. Mentoring and research activities are standard support activities for undergraduate students matriculating in the alliance programs. In Phase III, the alliance built on these academic enhancements by developing interactive web-based learning for mastery of difficult concepts, developing electronic modules to expand interdisciplinary capabilities of undergraduates, scaling up of the successful teaching/learning strategies, developing Information Technology skills in STEM students, and expanding the research and mentoring program to include a large number of students.In Phase IV, PR-LSAMP, through its systemic, integrative and collaborative approach that builds on institutional initiatives to improve STEM education will: (1) continue to increase the baccalaureate production of students in STEM disciplines; (2) continue to increase the number of students who complete a Ph.D program in a STEM field; (3) sustain the annual number of BS STEM graduates from PR-LSAMP institutions to provide a significant pool of STEM graduate degrees; (4) sustain and enhance the direct student support strategies that have proven successful to retain and motivate undergraduate STEM students to pursue graduate studies, such as undergraduate research experiences and mentoring, and (5) sustain the collaborative network among STEM faculty from the different PR-LSAMP institutions for exchange of and mentoring in the implementation of successful strategies to enhance the teaching and learning process.An elaborate tracking system is in place to track the progress of Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) fellows. PR-LSAMP tracks the academic progress of fellows while participating in BD programs and entrance into a Ph.D program as well as through completion of the Ph.D and entrance into the workforce.The alliance consists of the University of Puerto Rico System which includes two graduate centers (UPR-Rio Piedras and UPR Mayaguez); 6 four-year campuses (Humacao, Cayey, Arecibo, Aguadilla, and Bayamon; and the Inter-American University System, which includes two 4-year institutions (Bayamon and Metro).