2011-2016 Northeast Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (Senior Alliance Project)

东北LSAMP(NELSAMP)显着增加了STEM学士学位课程中代表不足的少数族裔(URM)的入学人数，以及他们在三个不同州的五个独立机构的毕业率。该联盟使其机构能够实施确保学生成功的最佳做法，如研究机会和正式的补充指导计划。它还为来自五所院校的NELSAMP学生提供了通过联盟范围的活动进行互动和寻找更大身份群体的机会。拟议的NELSAMP高级联盟旨在维持和发展其现有计划，为学生从社区大学STEM副学士学位课程进入NELSAMP发展提供有意的途径，并为高水平学生实施NELSAMP特有的国际研究体验。此外，它还将通过提供旅行支持基金，鼓励其他NELSAMP学生参与现有的国际研究活动。NELSAMP高级联盟的智力优势体现在其工作的几个方面。NELSAMP将开发一个队列模型，通过STEM专业的组合AS-BS序列来跟踪和支持URM社区大学生。近距离同行活动和参与联盟范围内的活动将提高学生在社区大学期间的坚持性。同样，国际研究部分将增加STEM在第三和第四个本科学年的坚持性。这一提议的NELSAMP高级联盟的更广泛影响包括，来自三个州的URM人口的学生增加了渠道，他们直接或通过社区大学坚持从高中到学士学位STEM学科的学位完成。除了支持高水平NELSAMP学生在STEM方面的毅力外，一个专门的国际研究体验项目在南非取得了成功？一个拥有许多机构渴望与联盟合作的国家--应该作为一个榜样，大幅扩大其他LSAMP学生的国际机会数量。

The Northeast LSAMP (NELSAMP) has significantly increased underrepresented minority (URM) enrollment in STEM baccalaureate disciplines and their graduation at five independent institutions located in three different states. The Alliance enables its institutions to implement best practices that ensure student success, such as research opportunities and formal Supplemental Instruction programs. It also provides opportunities for NELSAMP students from the five institutions to interact and find a larger identity group through Alliance-wide events.The proposed NELSAMP Senior Alliance aims to maintain and build upon its existing programs, develop intentional pathways for student progression from community college STEM associate degree programs into NELSAMP, and implement an NELSAMP-specific international research experience for upper level students. In addition, it will encourage other NELSAMP students to participate in existing international research activities by providing travel support funds.The intellectual merit of the NELSAMP Senior Alliance is reflected in several aspects of its work. NELSAMP will develop a cohort model to track and support URM community college students through their combined AS-BS sequence in STEM majors. Near-peer activities and participation in Alliance-wide events will improve student persistence during their community college years. The international research components will, similarly, add to STEM persistence in the third and fourth undergraduate years.The broader impacts of this proposed NELSAMP Senior Alliance include the increased pipeline of students from URM populations in three states who persist from high school ?directly or through community college -to degree completion in baccalaureate STEM disciplines. In addition to buttressing persistence in STEM for upper level NELSAMP students, the success of a dedicated international research experience program in South Africa ? a country with many institutions eager to partner with Alliances- should serve as a model to expand dramatically the number of international opportunities for other LSAMP students.