LA-BRIDGE: Louisiana Broadening Resources for Increasing Diversity in Graduate Education at Louisiana State University

美国人口普查局报告称，非洲裔、西班牙裔和土著美国人约占美国人口的30%，然而，美国只有16%的本科生、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学位和不到3%的博士STEM学位授予这些群体的学生！在全国范围内，S最大的利益就是支持那些测试战略的创新，以增加STEM学科中未被充分代表的成功群体，这不仅仅是出于公平或社会正义的原因，还因为这些学生在满足今天和未来的STEM劳动力需求方面具有尚未开发的潜力。拉布里奇：路易斯安那州为增加研究生教育多样性而拓宽资源，？代表了一种变革性和战略性的制度方法，以建立博士级别的人力资源资本。在这项努力中，路易斯安那州立大学(LSU)将作为桥梁机构，由斯塔斯特支持的卡内基研究扩展机构(Carnegie Research Expansion Institution)将作为桥梁机构，该机构在全国范围内被指定为土地赠款和海量。该项目的特点是路易斯安那州高级路易斯·斯托克斯(LS)少数族裔参与联盟(LAMP)各学院和大学之间的强有力的机构间合作；路易斯安那州立大学学术事务、战略举措、研究和经济发展办公室以及路易斯安那州立大学学术成功中心之间的机构内合作；以及路易斯安那州立大学与法国格勒诺布尔替代能源和原子能委员会(CEA Grioble)之间的国际合作。LA-Bridge的愿景是创建一个成功的模式，以提高少数族裔学生在博士水平的坚持性和全球竞争力，一个具有经过良好测试的战略的有效模式，可以在全国范围内采用。LA-Bridge的目标是LS-LAMP高级联盟目标的合乎逻辑的延伸：(A)提高少数民族STEM学生在桥接机构攻读博士学位的质量和数量；(B)提高少数民族STEM博士生的毕业率；以及(C)研究增加少数STEM博士学位持有者比例的国家模式。LAMP-BD的目标是：(1)提供系统的指导，包括有效的教师与学生/学生与学生之间的互动，共同努力增加在STEM领域获得博士学位的少数族裔的数量；(2)促进学术支持结构，以增加学生？(4)促进、指导和支持这些博士学位持有者向STEM研究队伍过渡，重点是教授；以及(5)通过在全州范围内扩展和制度化系统指导和研究基础设施的增强和活动来实现自我可持续发展。智力优势：LA-Bridge将在设计有效的LS-LAMP跨机构和跨国家联盟方面提供战略性和变革性的领导，以提高博士生的STEM教育质量。该项目将培养和测试旨在提高少数民族学生入学和博士毕业的系统指导策略。此外，该项目还将探索提高LSAMP学生在全球环境中成为更有效的研究人员的能力的模式。指导模式及其相关活动的科学基础--出版《系统指导和教育研究》--有助于制定研究生教育和专业发展的最佳做法。此外，BD学者将进行的研究将有助于跨越STEM学科的科技创新。更广泛的影响：LA-Bridge将增加少数族裔学生获得STEM博士学位的机会。该项目的显著影响是：(A)来自代表性不足的少数族裔社区的高质量博士水平的研究人员数量增加，他们将在STEM学术、工业和政府企业从事研究工作；(B)由此对更加专业化和多样化的劳动力的贡献和发展；(C)广泛传播研究生学习和专业发展系统指导的最佳做法；以及(D)显著加强机构研究生教育和研究基础设施。此外，该项目将通过提高研究生在国际研究环境中茁壮成长的能力而造福社会。

The US Census Bureau reports that African, Hispanic, and Native Americans comprise some30% of the US population, however only 16% of the undergraduate science, technology, engineering, andmathematics (STEM) degrees and less than 3% of the doctoral STEM degrees produced within the US areawarded to students from these groups! It is in the nation?s best interest to support innovations that teststrategies to increase the success groups underrepresented in the STEM disciplines, not simply for reasonsof equity or social justice, but because these students are an untapped potential in fulfilling the STEMworkforce needs of today and tomorrow.The proposed, ?BD-Cohort 5 ? LA-BRIDGE: Louisiana Broadening Resources for IncreasingDiversity in Graduate Education,? represents a transformative and strategic institutional approach tobuild human resource capital at the doctoral level. In this endeavor, Louisiana State University (LSU), astate-supported Carnegie Research Extensive Institution, nationally designated as both land-grant and seagrant,will serve as the Bridging Institution. The project features strong inter-institutional collaborationsbetween colleges and universities throughout the Senior Level Louis Stokes (LS) Louisiana Alliance forMinority Participation (LAMP); intra-institutional collaborations between the LSU Offices of AcademicAffairs, Strategic Initiatives, and Research and Economic Development as well as the LSU Center forAcademic Success; and international collaborations between LSU and the French Alternative Energiesand Atomic Energy Commission in Grenoble (CEA Grenoble).The vision of LA-BRIDGE is to create a successful model to increase minority studentpersistence and global competitiveness at the doctoral level, an effective model with well-testedstrategies, which can be adopted nationwide. The goals of LA-BRIDGE are a logical extension of thegoals of the LS-LAMP Senior Alliance: (a) to increase the quality and number of minority STEMstudents pursuing doctoral degrees at the bridge institution; (b) increase the retention to graduation rate ofminority STEM PhD students; and (c) investigate a national model for increasing the share of minoritySTEM PhD holders. The objectivesof LAMP-BD are: (1) to provide systemic mentoring that includeseffective faculty-to-student/student-to-student interactions that work collectively to increase the numberof minorities earning PhD degrees in STEM fields; (2) facilitate academic support structures that increasestudents? acclimations to the rigors of doctoral study; and (3) expose minorities to international researchexperiences that prepare them for long-term scholarly engagement in the global STEM researchenterprise; (4) to promote, guide and support the transition of these PhD degree-holders into the STEMresearch workforce with emphasis on the professoriate; and (5) to achieve self-sustainability byexpanding, and institutionalizing the systemic mentoring, and research infrastructure enhancements andactivities across the state.Intellectual Merit: LA-BRIDGE will provide strategic and transformative leadership indesigning effective LS-LAMP inter-institutional and multi-national alliances that improve the quality ofSTEM education for PhD students. This project will cultivate and test systemic mentoring strategies thathave been designed to increase minority student matriculation and graduation from PhD programs.Moreover, the project will explore models to enhance the ability of LSAMP students to be more effectiveresearchers in a global environment. The scientific basis of the mentoring model and its related activities,the publication in system mentoring and educational research, lend themselves to the development of bestpractices for graduate education and professional development. Further, the research to be conducted byBD scholars will contribute to scientific and technological innovations spanning the STEM disciplines.Broader Impact: LA-BRIDGE will increase minority student access to STEM PhDs. The salientproject impacts are a) the increase in the number of high quality PhD level researchers fromunderrepresented minority communities who will pursue research careers in the STEM academic,industrial, and governmental enterprise; b) the consequent contribution to and the development of a morequalified and diversified workforce; c) the wide-spread dissemination of the best practices of systemmentoring for graduate studies and professional development; and d) the significant enhancement ofinstitutional graduate education and research infrastructure. Further, this project will benefit society byenhancing the ability of its graduate students to thrive in an international research environment.