Greater Philadelphia LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (Cohort XII) Program

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划通过显著增加成功完成科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科高质量学位课程的学生人数，帮助大学和学院实现STEM劳动力的多样化。 特别强调通过创新的招聘和保留战略和经验来改变STEM教育，以支持在STEM学科中历史上代表性不足的群体：非洲裔美国人，阿拉斯加原住民，美洲印第安人，西班牙裔美国人，夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民。 桥梁博士学位（BD）活动提供支持，为学士后研究在干项目导致干博士学位。特拉华州州立大学，一个历史上黑人学院和大学（HBCU）和NSF实验计划，以刺激竞争研究（EPSCoR）机构，是主办网站为2014-2016（队列XII）BD计划为大费城路易斯·斯托克斯联盟少数民族参与德雷克塞尔大学的领导下。 该计划支持12个代表性不足的少数民族（URM）STEM博士的研究生队列。来自全国各地LSAMP校园的学生。 BD活动在特定STEM学科提供广泛的培训，以及促进科学界同行指导和领导的专业发展和指导。 学生获得严格的学术和研究培训经验，支持完成博士学位。在项目期间及以后，DSU的BD计划旨在增加来自代表性不足的群体的学生完成STEM博士学位的数量和质量。学位和进入教授职位。 它增强了HBCU与大费城联盟内的几个主要多数服务研究机构以及国家实验室之间的伙伴关系，研究合作和衔接战略。 该项目活动有可能开发一种示范方法，可供硕士级的少数群体服务机构使用，以促进学生从代表性不足的群体到STEM博士毕业。BD活动的长期影响反映在美国的STEM劳动力中，无论是在学术界还是在工业研究和开发中。通过培养未来的教授和科学工作者，增加的价值体现在少数群体在科学和工程领域的可见度，增加代表性，为下一代提供榜样和动力。

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the STEM workforce through their efforts at significantly increasing the numbers of students successfully completing high quality degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Particular emphasis is placed on transforming STEM education through innovative recruitment and retention strategies and experiences in support of groups historically under-represented in STEM disciplines: African-Americans, Alaskan Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. The Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Activity provides support for postbaccalaureate studies in STEM programs leading to the STEM doctoral degree.Delaware State University, a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) and NSF Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) institution, is the host site for the 2014-2016 (Cohort XII) BD program for the Greater Philadelphia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation under the leadership of Drexel University. The program supports a graduate student cohort of 12 underrepresented minority (URM) STEM Ph.D. students from LSAMP campuses across the nation. The BD Activity provides extensive training in specific STEM disciplines as well as professional development and guidance that promote peer mentoring and leadership in the scientific community. Students receive rigorous academic and research training experiences that support completion of the Ph.D. and the transition to a competitive career in academia and industry.Over the duration of the project and beyond, the BD program at DSU serves to increase the number and quality of students from underrepresented groups completing STEM Ph.D. degrees and entering the professoriate. It enhances partnerships, research collaborations, and articulation strategies between an HBCU and several major majority-serving research institutions within the Greater Philadelphia alliance as well as national laboratories. The project activities have the potential to develop a model approach which may be viable for use by Masters-level, minority-serving institutions to promote the movement of students from underrepresented groups through to STEM doctoral completion.The long-term impact of the BD activity is reflected in America's STEM workforce,both in academia and in industrial research and development. By nurturing the futureprofessoriate, as well as the scientific workforce, the value added is seen in thevisibility of minorities in science and engineering, increasing representation andproviding role models and motivation for the next generation.