Houston-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation:Senior Alliance

路易斯·斯托克斯少数群体参与联盟(LSAMP)计划隶属于人力资源开发部(HRD)，是根据国会授权于1991年设立的，旨在显著提高在科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)领域历史上代表性不足的学生的质量和数量，这些学生成功完成STEM学士学位并继续在这些领域进行研究生学习。休斯顿联盟是一个全面的合作伙伴关系，其中包括全国最大的学区、两个社区学院系统、一个历史上授予博士学位的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)和两个西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)。作为一个高级联盟，H-LSAMP将支持在学生过渡方面的新努力，支持非传统学生的学生支持机制，纳入促进STEM留住的社会支持机制，以及将早期LSAMP资助期间形成的高影响力做法制度化。在这个为期五年的项目中，休斯顿LSAMP高级联盟将：(1)为4,000名STEM学科的少数族裔学生提供研究生；2)为所有直接资助的学生提供参与研究活动的机会；3)让至少60%的直接资助学生进入专业或研究生院学习；4)保留至少80%的少数族裔STEM本科生，包括STEM专业的转校生。获奖期结束后，H-LSAMP项目将为所有受资助的学生提供有意义地参与研究活动的机会，包括国际研究。评估活动将包括三个主要部分。1)访谈参与者、工作人员和教职员工，以实时确定哪些干预活动需要调整，即形成性反馈，并评估基于项目的活动的测量和感知影响；2)收集、分析和报告实现每个项目目标或目的的具体措施；以及3)使用分离和测量特定干预策略和支持机制如何与成功相关的多变量模型。这些模型的构建将以有关学术和社会融合、参与和成就的文献为指导，并将利用适当的统计技术，例如因素分析和结构方程建模。这些分析的结果将有助于关于扩大STEM的参与和成就的文献，并为有这些目标的其他大学和联盟提供指导。

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program, within the Division of Human Resource Development (HRD), was established by Congressional mandate in 1991 to significantly increase the quality and quantity of students historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) who successfully complete baccalaureate degrees in STEM and who continue to graduate studies in these fields. The Houston alliance is a comprehensive partnership that includes the country's largest school districts, two community college systems, one doctoral-granting Historically Black College and University (HBCU) and two Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs). As a senior-level alliance, H-LSAMP will support new efforts in student transition, student support mechanisms for non-traditional students, the inclusion of social support mechanisms to facilitate STEM retention, and the institutionalization of high-impact practices developed during earlier LSAMP funding. Over the five-year project, Houston LSAMP Senior Alliance will: (1) Graduate 4,000 minority students in STEM disciplines, 2) Provide all directly supported students with the opportunity to participate in research activities, 3) Have at least sixty percent of directly supported students attend professional or graduate school, 4) Retain at least eighty percent of minority STEM undergraduates, including transfer students, in STEM majors. Upon completion of the award period, the H-LSAMP project will have provided the opportunity for all supported students to meaningfully participate in research activities, including international research.Evaluation activities will have three major components. 1) Interviews of participants, staff, and faculty to identify in real time which intervention activities need adjustment, i.e., formative feedback, as well as assess both the measured and perceived impact of project-based activities; 2) Gathering, analyzing, and reporting specific measures that operationalize each project goal or objective; and 3) The use of multivariate models isolating and measuring how the specific intervention strategies and support mechanisms relate to success. Construction of these models will be guided by the literature on academic and social integration, engagement, and achievement, and will draw upon appropriate statistical techniques, e.g., factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The results of these analyses will contribute to the literature on broadening participation and achievement in STEM and serve as a guide for other universities and alliances who share these goals.