Greater Philadelphia Region Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation - Philadelphia AMP Initiative (Senior Level Alliance)

德雷克塞尔大学作为大费城地区路易斯·斯托克斯少数群体参与联盟(Philadelphia AMP)的代表，作为一个高级联盟，寻求继续为其AMP倡议提供资金，以加强其持续努力，大幅提高获得科学、技术、工程和数学学士学位(STEM)的非裔美国人、西班牙裔和美洲原住民学生的数量和质量，并随后进入研究生院获得博士学位。费城AMP代表了一个多样化的联盟，包括公立和私立、2年和4年制、研究和非研究、历史上的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)和多数族裔机构。这项提案的一个显著特点是，拟议的AMP倡议建立在坚实的合作伙伴关系、资源、有效实践和经验的坚实基础上，这些伙伴关系、资源、有效实践和经验来自14年来的合作、合作和共同努力，重点是当前费城AMP项目下的少数族裔学生的成就。在费城AMP？S存在的过去14年里，该联盟通过使用学院/大学、基金会、州政府和公司的资金，为该项目贡献了1230万美元的匹配资金。通过费城联盟，已经建立了一种机制，以促进机构、部门和组织文化和做法的变化，这些变化将导致所有学生的招生、留住、STEM学位生产和研究生入学人数大幅增加。目前，联盟已经为拟议的高级联盟倡议的目标奠定了坚实的基础，特别注重将社区大学生的协调行动扩大到四年制院校，并随后成功过渡到研究生学习。越来越多的学生转向研究生学习，这增加了本科生和研究生水平的教师参与，扩大了国内和国际研究机会。为了支持这一AMP计划，来自9所成员院校的200多名STEM终身教职员工、学术部门负责人和高级管理人员将积极参与招收、咨询和指导AMP学生。在这项提议中？少数派？指非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人和美洲原住民。通过协同合作，联盟利用其业务基础设施扩大现有选择，以丰富伙伴机构和其他机构的计划。费城AMP认识到，在本科生和研究生STEM学位课程中，少数民族学生的质量和数量的持续增长不仅需要对各级教育系统进行重新设计，还需要一个持续的机制，重新审查课程调整，以适应行业和学院的要求。这些调整将导致联盟机构的学习环境及其在资金、人事、招聘和录取分配方面的政策和做法发生永久性变化。拟议的AMP倡议将利用其发展到高级联盟地位所获得的经验和做法，继续促进其当前活动的制度化，并促进学生从社区学院到四年制机构和从四年制机构到研究生教育的准备和过渡。更广泛的影响包括增加联盟机构中代表不足的群体中完成STEM学士学位和过渡到研究生学习的学生的数量和质量；加强社区学院、HBCU和授予博士学位的大学之间的伙伴关系、研究合作和衔接战略，在费城AMP和其他地方；并加强研究和教育的整合。

Drexel University, as a representative of the Greater Philadelphia Region Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (Philadelphia AMP), seeks continued funding for its AMP initiative as a senior level Alliance, to intensify its on-going efforts to substantially increase the quantity and quality of African American, Hispanic and Native American students receiving baccalaureate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and subsequently, entering graduate school to attain doctoral degrees. Philadelphia AMP represents a diverse alliance of public and private, 2- and 4-year, research and non-research, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and majority institutions.A salient feature of this proposal is the fundamental manner in which the proposed AMP initiative rests on a solid foundation of partnerships, resources, effective practice and experience derived from fourteen years of collaboration, cooperation and concerted efforts focused on minority student achievement under the current Philadelphia AMP project. During the past fourteen years of the Philadelphia AMP?s existence, the Alliance has contributed $l2.3 million in matching funds to the project through the use of college/university, foundation, state government and corporate funds. Through the Philadelphia Alliance a mechanism has been developed to catalyze changes in institutional departmental and organizational culture and the practices that will result in significant increases in recruitment, retention, STEM degree production, and graduate school entry for all students. Currently, the Alliance has established a firm foundation for the objectives of the proposed senior level Alliance initiative with specific attention to the expansion of a coordinated movement of community college students to 4- year institutions, and subsequently, successfully transitioned through to graduate study. The increased movement of students to graduate study has increased the participation of faculty at the undergraduate and graduate level with expanded domestic, as well as international research opportunities. In support of this AMP initiative, over 200+ tenured STEM faculty, academic department heads, and senior administrative personnel from the nine member institutions will actively participate in recruiting, advising and mentoring AMP students. In this proposal ?minority? refers to African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans.Through synergistic collaboration, the Alliance utilizes its operational infrastructure to expand available options to enrich programs at partner institutions and beyond. Philadelphia AMP recognizes that sustained increases in the quality and quantity of minority students in undergraduate and graduate STEM degree programs have required not only a re-engineering of the educational system at all levels, but also a sustained mechanism which revisits the curricular adjustments to accommodate the demands of industry and the academy. These adjustments will result in permanent changes in the learning environment in the Alliance institutions, as well as in their policies and practices in terms of allocations of finances, personnel, recruitment, and admissions.The proposed AMP initiative will utilize the experiences and practices gained through its development to senior level Alliance status to continue to foster the institutionalization of its current activities, and the preparation and transition of students from community colleges to 4-year institutions and from 4-yr institutions to graduate education.Broader impacts include increasing the number and quality of students from underrepresented groups in Alliance institutions completing STEM B.S degrees and transitioning to graduate study; enhancing partnerships, research collaborations, and articulation strategies between community colleges, HBCU and Ph.D. granting universities, within the Philadelphia AMP and beyond; and enhancing the integration of research and education.