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）项目通过努力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劳动力多样化。特别强调通过创新的招聘和保留策略和经验来改变STEM教育，以支持历史上在STEM学科中代表性不足的群体：非裔美国人、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原住民。通往博士学位的桥梁（BD）活动为STEM项目的学士学位后学习提供支持，从而获得STEM博士学位。特拉华州立大学是一所历史悠久的黑人学院和大学（HBCU），也是美国国家科学基金会刺激竞争研究实验项目（EPSCoR）机构，是德雷塞尔大学领导下的大费城路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟2014-2016年（第十二队列）BD项目的主办地点。该项目支持来自全国各地LSAMP校区的12名未被充分代表的少数族裔（URM） STEM博士研究生。BD活动提供特定STEM学科的广泛培训，以及促进科学界同侪指导和领导的专业发展和指导。学生将获得严格的学术和研究培训经验，以支持博士学位的完成，并过渡到学术界和工业界的竞争职业。在项目期间及之后，DSU的BD计划旨在提高来自代表性不足群体的学生完成STEM博士学位并进入教授学位的数量和质量。它加强了HBCU与大费城联盟内的几个主要的服务于大多数的研究机构以及国家实验室之间的伙伴关系、研究合作和衔接策略。该项目活动有可能开发出一种模式方法，可供硕士级别的少数族裔服务机构使用，以促进学生从代表性不足的群体到STEM博士学位的完成。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发领域。通过培养未来的教授和科学劳动力，少数民族在科学和工程领域的知名度增加了附加值，增加了代表性，并为下一代提供了榜样和动力。

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.