UT System LSAMP: A Model Senior Alliance

德克萨斯大学系统路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟的主要目标是提高在德克萨斯州和全国攻读和获得科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学位的少数族裔(URM)学生的数量和质量。该联盟由9所大学和5所社区学院组成，促进了本科生和研究生的STEM教育，并直接资助了1,565名本科生。这些LSAMP奖学金获得者中超过90%已经从德克萨斯大学系统的院校毕业并获得学士学位，其余许多学生目前已被录取，并在攻读STEM本科学位方面取得了令人满意的进展。LSAMP展示了合作努力如何能够获得丰厚的回报，并成为全州致力于改善传统上无法接受高等教育的代表不足群体的招生、留住、表现和毕业的令人印象深刻的例子。UT System LSAMP将通过包括另外两个大型社区学院系统，将其成员扩大到16所机构，以继续其在全州范围内的工作：-加强暑期研究学院，以确保相当数量的URM学生，包括资深学生，参与各种STEM领域的一系列研究经验，从校园内培训开始，最终以夏季本科生研究交流、国家实验室研究经验或海外研究为顶峰。-通过合作的社区学院和大学之间的密切合作，确保大多数联合招生的URM学生在两年制院校完成STEM副学士学位，并在四年制院校获得学士学位。-在联盟的每一个合作机构中，在国家科学基金资助的密切相关的项目(包括但不限于S-STEM、STEP、REU和AGEP)之间创建协同活动，为URM STEM学生创造成功的途径。智力上的功绩。拟议的活动将围绕一系列相互关联的本科生研究经验，促进对使URM学生成功获得STEM学位的学术因素的了解和理解。该项目的领导团队包括一群称职和多样化的管理人员、教职员工和专业人员，他们完全致力于更广泛的高等教育参与、早期人才发展和卓越表现的概念。联盟各机构将确保该项目顺利完成，并确保其最有效的组成部分在赠款期限过后继续存在。一名外部评估员将对项目进行公正的定期评估，以推动系统改进的决策周期。更广泛的影响。LSAMP学者从事的核心研究活动的目的是训练他们促进发现和理解，并促进进一步的学习深度。拟议的活动扩大了代表不足的少数族裔和退伍军人的参与，在许多情况下，还扩大了低收入第一代大学生的参与。这一努力的成果将通过期刊和会议出版物以及区域和国家情况介绍广泛传播。对社会的普遍好处是发展一支具有全球竞争力并真正代表国家的多元化STEM劳动力队伍--S 21世纪人口统计数据。

The primary goal of the University of Texas System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation is to increase the quantity and quality of underrepresented minority (URM) students that pursue and earn degrees in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) in the state of Texas and the nation. The Alliance, which is comprised of nine universities and five community colleges, has promoted STEM education at undergraduate and graduate levels and directly supported 1,565 undergraduate students. More than 90% of these LSAMP scholars have already graduated from UT system institutions with bachelor's degrees, and many of the remaining students are currently enrolled and making satisfactory progress toward their undergraduate degrees in STEM. The LSAMP has demonstrated how collaborative efforts can reap large rewards and serve as an impressive example of a state-wide commitment to improving enrollment, retention, performance, and graduation of underrepresented groups that traditionally have not had access to higher education. The UT System LSAMP will expand its membership to 16 institutions by including two additional large community college systems to continue its state-wide work by: - Enhancing the Summer Research Academy to ensure that a significant number of URM students, including veteran students, participate in a sequence of research experiences in various STEM fields, starting with on-campus training and culminating with a summer undergraduate research exchange, a national laboratory research experience, or a research abroad capstone. - Through close collaboration among partnering community colleges and universities, ensuring that a majority of co-enrolled URM students complete their STEM associate degrees in their two-year institutions and advance toward and later earn their bachelor's degrees in their four-year institutions. - Creating synergistic activities among closely related NSF funded projects (including but not limited to S-STEM, STEP, REU, and AGEP) at each one of the Alliance's partnering institutions to create pathways to success for URM STEM students. Intellectual Merit. The proposed activities, centered on a set of interconnected undergraduate research experiences, will advance knowledge and understanding of the academic factors that enable URM students to successfully earn STEM degrees. The leadership team of the project includes a competent and diverse group of administrators, faculty, and professional staff who are fully committed to the notion of broader higher education participation, early talent development, and excellence in performance. The Alliance institutions will ensure that the project is successfully completed and that its most effective components are sustained beyond the term of the grant. An external evaluator will provide an impartial periodic assessment of the project to drive the decision making cycle for systematic improvements. Broader Impacts. The core research activities in which LSAMP scholars are engaged serve the purpose of training them to advance discovery and understanding and also to promote further depth of learning. The proposed activities broaden the participation of underrepresented minorities and veterans and, in many instances, low-income first-generation college students. Results of this effort will be disseminated broadly through journal and conference publications, as well as regional and national presentations. The general benefit to society is the development of a diverse STEM workforce that is globally competitive and truly representative of the nation?s 21st century demographics.