PILOT REGIONAL LOUIS STOKES CENTER: Midwest Center of Excellence

路易斯·斯托克斯中西部卓越中心（LSMCE）将作为一个资源和支持实体，以扩大代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生在印第安纳州，伊利诺伊州，俄亥俄州，密歇根州，密苏里州和威斯康星州的28个非LSAMP机构的参与，并选择了科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学位课程的学术专业。中心？新闻部的活动将集中在信息传播和外联领域。其目标是通过指导和提供支持来加强URM学生的招聘和保留，以缓解关键教育时刻的过渡挑战。LSMCE有三个主要目标：目标1：发挥领导作用，阐明国家迫切需要扩大少数民族参与和成功的STEM本科课程。目标二：开发一个信息中心，提供一致的在线资源和持续的机会，以展示STEM教学/学习的最佳实践，并支持URM学生？通过研究和实习经验的坚持和参与。目标三：建立一个网络门户，cLSMCE枢纽，传播信息，并在中西部的28个合作伙伴校园为非LSAMP学生创建支持网络。LSMCE活动将扩大历史上代表性不足的群体，包括妇女和少数民族和种族在STEM企业的参与，通过提供研究和科学计划，并通过与非LSAMP机构勤奋工作。该中心不仅将有助于缩小由缺乏服务不足的个人谁是创造性地发挥作用的STEM专业人士造成的差距，它还鼓励其他人谁一直保持沉默，尝试学士学位水平的科学工作。

The Louis Stokes Midwest Center of Excellence (LSMCE) will serve as a resource and support entity to broaden the participation of underrepresented minority (URM) students at 28 non-LSAMP institutions in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Missouri and Wisconsin and who have chosen academic majors in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) degree programs. The Center?s activities will be concentrated in areas of information dissemination and outreach. Its goal is to strengthen the recruitment and retention of URM students through mentoring and providing support to ease the transitional challenges at critical educational junctures. LSMCE has three primary objectives: Objective 1: Taking a leadership role to articulate the national critical need for broadening minority participation and success in STEM undergraduate programs. Objective 2: Developing an information hub that provides consistent on-line resources and sustained opportunities to showcase best practices in STEM teaching/learning and to support URM students? persistence and engagement through research and internship experiences. Objective 3: Establishing a cyber portal, cLSMCE hub, to disseminate information and create networks of support for non-LSAMP students on the 28 partner campuses in the Midwest. LSMCE activities will broaden the participation of historically underrepresented groups, including women and ethnic and racial minorities in the STEM enterprise, by providing access to research and science programs and by working diligently with non-LSAMP institutions. The Center will not only help to close the gap created by the paucity of underserved individuals who are STEM professionals functioning creatively, it also encourages others who have been reticent to attempt baccalaureate-level science work.