Multidisciplinary STEM Solutions LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate

亚利桑那州立大学的关键假设是：“在一个高度多学科的环境中，为合格的未被充分代表的少数民族（URM）学生提供激励，并指导他们在解决社会相关问题的中心应用他们的知识和技能，将激励他们从硕士课程转向最适合他们智力目标的博士课程。”学生注册并在硕士学位课程中取得成功的最重要的激励措施之一是由美国国家科学基金会路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）提供的学生支持桥梁博士学位（BD）计划。在BD奖学金的支持下，亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）将建立并展示一个全国性的模式，如何通过强调使用高级数学来分析具有全球重要性的问题，来增加来自STEM中代表性不足群体（urg）的学生在数量驱动的科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科中攻读博士学位的人数。让其他大学在全国范围内采用这种模式，将大大增加代表性不足的少数族裔STEM教授的数量，并帮助美国达到数学家和定量驱动的STEM科学家和工程师的临界数量。全国关注促进全球重要问题，并将数学作为解决这些问题的工具，将有助于解决对我们国家竞争力至关重要的STEM领域代表性不足的问题。亚利桑那州立大学的BD通过其项目的三个目标，解决了历史上在STEM领域代表性不足的学生获得博士学位的障碍：(1)从亚利桑那州立大学、LSAMP和数学联盟之间的重叠管道中招募；(2)为符合条件的目标学科的URM学生进入STEM硕士学位课程并取得成功提供奖励；(3)在攻读博士学位的过程中培养作为科学家和学者的强烈自我认同。BD项目的学生将被分配一名具有定量强的STEM研究项目的教师导师，以及他们选择的顾问，后者作为明确的榜样，监督他们的学术进步，并提供文化情感支持，这些支持通常会对urg的成功产生影响。亚利桑那州立大学的BD项目创造了一个成功、出版和获得高级学位是常态的环境。

Arizona State University's key hypothesis is: "Providing incentives to qualified underrepresented minority (URM) students in a highly multidisciplinary environment and mentoring them to apply their knowledge and skills within centers engaged in societally-relevant problem solving will motivate them to move from a master's program to a doctoral program best suited for their intellectual goals." One of the most important incentives for students to enroll and succeed in the Master's Degree programs is the student support provided by the NSF Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) program. With this support from the BD Fellowships, Arizona State University (ASU) will build and demonstrate a national model on how to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups (URGs) in STEM pursuing PhDs in quantitatively-driven Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines by emphasizing the use of high-level mathematics to analyze questions of global importance. Having other universities adopt this model nation-wide will greatly expand the number of underrepresented minority STEM professors and help the United States reach a critical mass of mathematicians and quantitatively-driven STEM scientists and engineers. A national focus of promoting globally important questions and mathematics as a tool to address them will lead to resolving the problem of underrepresentation in those STEM fields critical to our nation's competitiveness.ASU's BD addresses the obstacles to obtaining a Ph.D. for students historically underrepresented in STEM through their program's three objectives: (1) Recruit from the overlap between ASU, LSAMP, and the Math Alliance pipelines; (2) Provide incentives to qualified URM students in the targeted disciplines to enter and succeed in STEM Master's Degree programs; and (3) Cultivate a strong self-identification as scientists and scholars en route to a Ph.D. Students in the BD program are assigned a faculty mentor with a quantitatively strong STEM research program as well as to their chosen advisor who serves as an explicit role model, provides oversight of their academic progress and offers cultural-emotional support that often make the difference in the success of URGs. ASU's BD program creates an environment where success, publications and earning advanced degrees are the norm.