Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities Senior LSAMP Alliance

西部扩大学生机会联盟(WAESO)Louis Stokes少数族裔参与联盟项目结合了30所学院和大学、7个专业组织、2个政府实验室、4个教育组织、12个公司、147个学术和支持项目、500名顾问个人的努力，其中约85%是科学家、工程师和其他教职员工，15%是管理人员。新项目是一项全面、协调、有序的努力，利用NSF的资金用于历史上代表性不足的少数族裔(URM)本科生活动，包括大学二年级、三年级和大四学生向研究生的过渡，以及开发在地区和全国范围内应用或传播的高科技产品。通过NSF资助的研究生教育和教授联盟(AGEP)和LSAMP通往博士学位的桥梁(BD)计划，该联盟将通过成功的多学科教师培训网络，继续从STEM本科生到STEM研究生课程的无缝过渡和学生支持，将这些学生转变为博士和教职员工，以及国家STEM工作队伍中的其他部门。基于之前在STEM专业中历史上未达到的少数族裔人数翻一番的多次成功，并正在为这一学生群体到2016年实现类似的翻一番的目标，招聘和保留活动将使该联盟成为加强和多样化国家STEM劳动力以满足21世纪创新需求的国家典范。

The Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities (WAESO) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation project combines the efforts of an alliance of30 colleges and universities, 7 professional organizations, 2 government laboratories, 4 educationalorganizations, 12 corporations, 147 academic and support programs, 500 resource individuals,approximately 85% of whom are scientists, engineers, and other faculty, and 15% administrators. The new project is a comprehensive, concerted, sequenced effort that uses NSF funding for historically underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduate student activities, including the transition of college sophomores, juniors, and seniors toward graduate school and the development ofhigh technology products with application or dissemination both regionally and nationally. Through the NSF-funded Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) and the LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) program the alliance will continue the seamless transition and student support from STEM undergraduate to STEM graduate studies through the successful multidisciplinary facultymentoring network to transition these students to doctoral completion and into faculty ranks, as well as other sectors in the Nation's STEM workforce.Based on the multiple prior successes in doubling the number of historically underepresented minorities in STEM majors and being on pace for a similar doubling goal for this population of students by 2016, the recruitment and retention activities will result in the alliance becoming a national model for strengthening and diversifying the Nation's STEM workforce to meet 21st century innovation needs.