UT System LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (2011 - 2013 Cohort) - BD Site: University of Texas (EL Paso)

德克萨斯大学系统路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)提议在德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校(UTEP)实施博士学位之桥(BD)项目，该联盟是该联盟的牵头机构，也是一家为拉美裔多数族裔服务的机构。这一努力将为12名来自代表不足的少数族裔(URM)群体的有才华的学生提供全面支持，他们将获得STEM学科的博士学位，完成后要么进入技术劳动力大军，要么选择在学术界就业。该计划将建立在UTEP和姊妹UT系统机构BD队列收集的经验基础上。该计划将主要针对有本科研究经验的学生，这些学生将过渡到STEM学科的博士课程。将建立一批高素质的合格申请者，他们作为本科生参加了LSAMP活动，并计划于2011年秋季或2012年春季开始在UTEP攻读博士学位。申请者将经过仔细的筛选，其中包括PI、共同PI和STEM博士生项目主任进行的个人面试。被BD项目录取的学生将在第一学期作为博士生确定一位教师导师和一个研究课题。除了全面的财政支援外，屋宇署人员亦会透过每周研讨会和一对一会议，获得私人投资主任和协理私人投资主任提供优质的意见和辅导。这些课程旨在帮助BD研究员实现他们的学术目标，方法是就如何准备具有里程碑和交付成果的研究计划提供建议，并指导他们使他们成为有知识和有能力的专业人员。BD研究员还将接受培训，申请NSF研究生奖学金计划、GEM奖学金计划和福特基金会奖学金计划的竞争性资金。预计BD研究员每年至少参加一次各自学科的专业会议，还将参加NSF.智力功勋联合年会。该项目将有助于建立关于干预性咨询干预和研讨会会议的知识库，以培养来自代表不足的少数群体的合格学生，并使他们为顺利完成博士学位做好准备。PI和Co-PIs对少数族裔和第一代大学生在过渡到研究生学习过程中面临的许多挑战有丰富的经验，并已证明成功地根据学生的需求制定了战略。该项目受益于一个经过验证的模型，该模型包括目标、目标、活动和预期结果。该项目的可用资源包括UT System LSAMP工作人员的支持服务、UTEP研究生院工作人员提供的招生和职业发展服务、UTEP院校评估、研究和规划中心的评估服务，以及BD研究员将在其中开展论文工作的科学和工程学院的研究实验室和办公室。这项拟议的计划将有助于加强URM研究生成功的成功战略，这些战略适用于其他具有类似UTEP特点的高等教育机构，UTEP是一所非传统学生比例较高的城市研究型大学。该计划将有助于实现国家目标，即增加STEM学科中拥有其专业领域终极学位的人数不足的少数族裔学生的数量。

The University of Texas System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) proposes to implement a Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) project at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), the lead institution of the Alliance and a Hispanic majority serving institution. This effort will provide full support to twelve talented students from under-represented minority (URM) groups who will obtain doctoral degrees in the STEM disciplines and upon completion either enter the technical workforce or choose a career in academia.The program will build on the experiences gathered from previous BD cohorts at UTEP and sister UT System institutions. The program will target primarily students with prior undergraduate research experience who are bridging to Ph.D. programs in STEM disciplines. A high quality pool of qualified applicants who have participated in LSAMP activities as undergraduates and plan to begin doctoral studies at UTEP in the fall of 2011 or spring of 2012 will be created. Applicants will be carefully screened through a process that will include personal interviews conducted by the PI, co-PIs, and STEM doctoral program directors.Students accepted into the BD program will identify a faculty mentor and a research topic during their first semester as doctoral students. Besides full financial support, BD fellows will receive quality advising and mentoring from the PI and co-PIs through weekly seminars and one-on-one meetings. These sessions will be designed to help the BD fellows achieve their academic goals by providing advice on how to prepare a research plan with milestones and deliverables, and mentoring to prepare them to be knowledgeable and competent professionals. BD fellows will also be coached to apply for competitive funding from the NSF Graduate Fellowship Program, the GEM fellowship program, and the Ford Foundation Fellowship program. BD fellows will be expected to attend at least one professional meeting in their discipline per year and will also participate in the Joint Annual Meeting of the NSF.Intellectual Merit. The project will contribute to the knowledge base concerning intrusive advising interventions and seminar sessions that shape qualified students from under-represented minority groups and prepare them to successfully complete a doctoral degree. The PI and Co-PIs have ample experience with the many challenges minority and first-college generation students face as they transition to graduate studies, and have already shown to be successful in tailoring strategies to their students' needs. The project benefits from a proven model that includes goals, objectives, activities, and anticipated outcomes. The resources available for the project include the support services of the UT System LSAMP staff, admission and professional development services offered by the UTEP Graduate School staff, the evaluation services of the UTEP Center for Institutional Evaluation, Research, and Planning, as well as the research laboratories and offices in the College of Science and Engineering in which BD fellows will conduct their dissertation work.Broader Impact. The proposed program will lead to the enhancement of successful strategies for URM graduate student success that are applicable to other institutions of higher learning with characteristics similar to those of UTEP, which is an urban research university with a high proportion of non-traditional students. The program will contribute to the national goal of increasing the number of underrepresented minority students in STEM disciplines with terminal degrees in their area of expertise.