Bridge to the Doctorate: Wisconsin Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）项目帮助大学和学院通过培养具有高度竞争力的学生，使STEM劳动力多样化，这些学生来自历史上在STEM学科中代表性不足的群体：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原住民。LSAMP通往博士学位的桥梁（BD）活动的目标是增加来自代表性不足人群的STEM研究生的数量和质量，重点是博士学位的入学和完成。在美国高等教育机构实施的BD项目有助于实现美国国家科学基金会2014-2018年战略计划的目标之一，即“整合教育和研究，以支持具有尖端能力的多样化STEM劳动力的发展”。由于美国的国家安全和经济活力需要训练有素的国内STEM劳动力，从事最先进研究和创新水平的机构必须尽其所能培养未来的STEM领导者。威斯康星LSAMP BD （WiscAMP-BD）计划建立在正在完成STEM学士学位的本科生日益多样化的基础上。WiscAMP-BD计划所采用的战略将大大有助于增加学术界和STEM劳动力领导者的多样性，从而帮助美国保持全球竞争力。WiscAMP-BD计划基于身份发展和整合，成人学习和职业发展以及制度变革的既定理论，并有以下目标：1)招募和招收12名学生进入威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校54个STEM博士项目中的任何一个；2)将研究生学习的有力候选人和STEM领域代表性不足的学生与从事前沿研究并致力于指导代表性不足群体学生的教师导师配对；3)为WiscAMP-BD学生建立一个实践社区，以支持八项核心能力的发展和他们对博士学位的坚持。

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the STEM workforce through the development of highly competitive students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines: African-Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. The goal of the LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Activity is to increase the quantity and quality of STEM graduate students from underrepresented populations, with emphasis on Ph.D. matriculation and completion. BD programs implemented in the nation's institutions of higher education contribute to addressing one of the objectives in NSF's 2014-2018 Strategic Plan, namely to "integrate education and research to support development of a diverse STEM workforce with cutting-edge capabilities." Since national security and economic vitality of the United States require a highly trained domestic STEM workforce, institutions engaged in the most advanced levels of research and innovation must do their part to train tomorrow's leaders in STEM. The Wisconsin LSAMP BD (WiscAMP-BD) Program builds on the growing diversity of undergraduate students who are completing their Baccalaureate degrees in STEM. The strategies employed by the WiscAMP-BD Program will contribute significantly to increasing the diversity of leaders in academia and the STEM workforce, thereby helping the nation to remain globally competitive.The WiscAMP-BD program is based on established theories of identity development and integration, adult learning and career development, and institutional change and has the following objectives:1) To recruit and enroll a cohort of twelve students into any of the 54 STEM doctoral programs at UW-Madison;2) To pair each of the students who are strong candidates for graduate study and are underrepresented in STEM with faculty mentors who are engaged in cutting-edge research and committed to mentoring students from underrepresented populations;3) To establish a community of practice for WiscAMP-BD students to support the development of eight core competencies and their persistence to the doctoral degree.