UT System LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate: UT San Antonio Cohort

德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校(UTSA)是德克萨斯大学系统路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟(LSAMP)的长期合作伙伴，该校提议在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科的头两年博士培训期间，赞助12名才华横溢、代表性不足的少数民族(URM)研究员进入博士学位(BD)研究员队列。该项目的总体目标是推进国家和大学的目标，即增加进入并成功完成STEM领域博士培训的URM学生的数量，并发展成为学术、政府或行业部门的领导者和榜样。目前建议的主要目标是建立一个可持续的培训环境，为新的城市规划管理专业学生提供全面的支持，帮助他们过渡到研究生教育，并开始发展为研究专业人员。这将通过有选择地在UTSA特殊的培训环境中招募潜在研究员，并在现有社会科学和培训文献的基础上，通过融合UTEP和UTSA制定的成功战略而制定的支持和培训计划来实现。第二个目标是促进该计划或其组成部分在其他具有类似URM人口的新兴研究机构中的复制。

The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), a long term partner in the UT System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP), proposes to sponsor a cohort of 12 talented, underrepresented minority (URM) Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) fellows during their first two years of doctoral training in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines. The overall goal of this project is to advance the national and university goal of increasing the number of URM students who enter and successfully complete doctoral training in STEM fields and develop into leaders and role models in academic, government or industry sectors. The primary goal of the current proposal is to develop a sustainable and training environment that provides comprehensive support for new URM students as they transition into graduate education and begin to develop as research professionals. This will be accomplished through selective recruitment of prospective fellows to the exceptional training environment of UTSA, and implementation of a support and training program developed by melding of successful strategies developed at UTEP and UTSA, within the foundations of existing social-science and training literature. A secondary goal is to promote replication of this program or its components in other emerging research institutions with similar URM populations.