LSAMP Phase IV (2006-2011) Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities (WAESO)

项目摘要：LSAMP第四阶段(2006-2011)西部扩大学生机会联盟(WAESO)WAESO结合了35所学院和大学、8个专业组织、2个政府实验室、9个教育组织、21家公司、147个学术和支持项目、500名资源个人(其中约85%是科学家、工程师和其他教职人员)和15%的管理人员的努力。总体目标：第四阶段WAESO是一项全面、协调和有序的努力，建议将LSAMP NSF资金用于未被充分代表的本科生活动，包括大学毕业生、大三学生和其他教师的过渡和高年级学生到研究生院学习和开发高科技产品，并在地区和全国范围内应用或传播。通过博士项目的桥梁，我们的LSAMP将继续我们成功的多学科教师指导网络，将这些学生过渡到博士项目。此外，在NSF研究生教育联盟和教授联盟(AGEP)的支持下，第四阶段的WAESO学生将获得博士学位，甚至更高的教师身份或在企业或政府部门的职业生涯。基于第一阶段和第二阶段的成功，使我们的目标人口的毕业生人数每年翻一番，并在第三阶段实现类似的翻一番的目标，我们建议承担起实现B.S.学位比率的艰巨任务，以反映我们大量代表不足的少数族裔人口。使用来自人口普查局的信息(http://www.census.gov)美国2004年7月发布的亚利桑那州、新墨西哥州、内华达州和犹他州的报告)，我们地区的人口在本报告中估计的12，37万人中，有34%是美国印第安人、非裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人(全国为28%)。为了在拟议的第四阶段10,551人的总体STEM学士学位生产率相对稳定的情况下更接近实现生育，我们提议2011年向美国印第安人、非洲裔美国人和西班牙裔授予2,630个STEM学士学位的数字目标，以实现与我们这些美国人地区人口的平等，这将导致超过25%的比例，并使我们很好地走在成功实现生育的道路上。具体目标：基于我们目前的WAESO LSAMP第三阶段联盟的巨大成功，该联盟自1990年以来部分由NSF合作协议资助，我们具体建议：(1)进一步将我们非常成功的第三阶段活动制度化，以确保联盟的目标和目的将继续实现，而不是NSF的支持；(2)在五年内(到2011年)将理科、技术、工程和数学(STEM)理科、工程和数学(STEM)学位的年度比率再次从新的(因队列成员变化而调整的)1,315名代表不足的学生的理科、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学位基线增加一倍至2,630人；(3)进一步扩展、维持和连接LSAMP理工科毕业生，特别是LSAMP桥梁到博士研究生，与我们的MGE@MSA AGEP和其他AGEP在全国范围内创建、增强和制度化通往成功研究生和学术生涯的永久途径。我们提议的活动的智力价值是我们将利用和扩大我们的联盟，这些社区由代表不足的少数族裔STEM学者/研究员/教师/导师和学生学徒共同合作，以进一步构建和维持一个以研究为基础的温室环境，以创造广泛的地区性系统性变革，具有显著的积极的国家影响和反响。我们提议的活动的更广泛的影响是实现并维持一个水平的录取、研究人员/教师/导师和学生学徒与我们整个社会的多样性相比，学士、硕士、博士、博士后、初级教师和高级教师的发展、毕业、安置、晋升和终身教职都很少代表STEM学者。我们有充分的理由相信，我们的WAESO LSAMP联盟将成为加强和多样化STEM学生和教师的全国典范，以确保美国在21世纪日益激烈的全球竞争中继续在研究和技术方面保持世界领先地位。

Project Summary: LSAMP Phase IV (2006-2011) Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities(WAESO)WAESO combines the efforts of an alliance of 35 colleges and universities, 8 professional organizations, 2government laboratories, 9 educational organizations, 21 corporations, 147 academic and support programs, 500resource individuals, approximately 85% of whom are scientists, engineers, and other faculty, and 15%administrators with just over 40% of these resource individuals being underrepresented minorities.Overall Objective: Phase IV WAESO is a comprehensive, concerted, sequenced effort that proposes to useLSAMP NSF funding for underrepresented undergraduate student activities, including the transition of collegesophomores, juniors, and seniors toward graduate school and the development of high technology products withapplication or dissemination both regionally and nationally. Through the Bridges to the Doctorate program ourLSAMP will continue our successful multidisciplinary faculty mentoring network to transition these students toSTEM Ph.D. programs. Moreover, with NSF Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)support, PHASE IV WAESO students will be assisted through the doctorate and even beyond to faculty status orcareers in the corporate or government sectors.Based on the successes of Phase I and Phase II in doubling the number of graduates per year of our target populationand being on pace for a similar doubling goal in Phase III, we propose to take on the formidable task of achievingB.S. degree rates reflective of our substantial underrepresented minority population. Using the information form thecensus bureau (http://www.census.gov) USA July 2004 reports for Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and Utah statethat our region has a population which of the 12,370,000 people estimated in this report, 34% (compared with 28%nationally) are American Indian, African American, and Hispanic. In order to move much closer to achieving paritywith the relatively stable overall STEM B.S. degree production rate for the proposed Phase IV cohort of 10,551, wepropose the numerical goal in the year 2011 of 2,630 STEM B.S. degrees awarded to American Indian, AfricanAmerican, and Hispanic as accomplishing much towards achieving parity with our regional population of theseAmericans, which would result in a representation of greater than 25% and put us well on the way to successfullyreaching parity.Specific Goals: Based on the tremendous success of our current WAESO LSAMP Phase III alliance that has beenfunded in part by a NSF cooperative agreements since 1990, we specifically propose to:(1) Further institutionalize our highly successful Phase III activities to ensure that alliance goals and objectives willcontinue to be achieved beyond NSF support;(2) Double once again the annual BS degree rate from a new (adjusted due to cohort membership changes) currentbaseline of 1,315 underrepresented student science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) BS degreesto 2,630 within five years (by 2011);(3) Further expand, sustain, and connect LSAMP BS graduates, especially LSAMP Bridge to the Doctoratefellowship students, with our MGE@MSA AGEP and other AGEPs nationally to create, enhance, andinstitutionalize permanent pathways to successful graduate study and academic careers.The intellectual merit of our proposed activity is that we will draw upon and expand our alliances large existingcommunities of underrepresented minority STEM scholar/researcher/teacher/mentors and student apprenticescholar/researcher/teacher/protgs working collaboratively to further structure and sustain a research-based hothouse environment to create wide-spread regional systemic change with dramatically positive national implicationsand repercussions.The broader impacts of our proposed activity is to achieve and sustain a level of admission, development,graduation, placement, promotion, and tenure of baccalaureate, masters, doctoral, post-doctoral, junior faculty, andsenior faculty underrepresented STEM scholars in proportion to the diversity of our society as a whole. We havestrong reason to believe that our WAESO LSAMP alliance will become a national model for the strengthening anddiversification of STEM students and faculty to ensure that the U.S. will continue to lead the world in research andtechnology despite the increasingly intense global competition of the 21st century.