FGLSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate 2016-2018

南佛罗里达大学将作为2016-2018年国家科学基金会佛罗里达-乔治亚州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（FGLSAMP）项目的博士学位（BD）机构网站的桥梁，其目标是增加STEM中代表性不足的学生的数量，这些学生将成为下一代科学家、工程师、研究创新者、企业家和教师榜样。USF的FGLSAMP BD项目将提供独特的学术环境和多种机会，以促进致力于在工程，计算，数学和科学学科（物理，生物，地球科学）取得杰出事业的LSAMP毕业生的专业进步，并塑造国家21世纪的STEM研究议程。新的FGLSAMP BD活动将大胆地建立在前六个FGLSAMP USF BD奖项的压倒性成功（94%的学生预计将获得高级STEM学位）的基础上，将2004年BD项目发起的最佳实践制度化，适用于所有USF STEM专业。该项目还体现了经过验证的组织和操作原则，通过扩展成功的LSAMP模式，使少数民族本科生能够在科学领域实现学术和社会融合以及专业化，并将其纳入研究生STEM项目。根据美国人口普查局的数据，到2020年左右，美国一半以上的儿童预计将来自少数民族或族裔群体。为了应对这些不断变化的人口统计数据，美国国家科学院和总统科学技术顾问委员会（PCAST）都记录了需要增加历史上代表性不足的群体的个人参与，以帮助保持国家在技术和研究创新方面的竞争力。因此，这个全校范围内的、统一的、机构整合的FGLSAMP BD项目的预期好处将是帮助振兴国内受过博士培训的科学家和工程师的国家人才库。FGLSAMP BD活动的另一个好处将是帮助解决来自代表性不足的群体成为STEM教师的严重短缺问题。通过基于证据的实践（例如，提案写作准备，点对点指导，少数民族科学家榜样互动，与本科生和K-12学生的互动等），这项FGLSAMP BD活动将寻求鼓励更多的URM学生追求学术事业和非传统的STEM职业道路（创业，政府研究，工业等）。1)在2016年秋季之前招募12名少数族裔学生作为NSF FGLSAMP BD研究员进入所有USF STEM学院；2)启动专业发展活动，为FGLSAMP BD研究员和FGLSAMP学者在联盟内的竞争NSF GRFP申请和其他奖学金项目做好准备；3)支持所有USF FGLSAMP BD研究员进入STEM博士项目。4)通过前沿研究项目和与国际科学家的互动，培养FGLSAMP BD研究员成为全球参与的研究人员；5)实施新的研究生指导和推广计划，既鼓励学生追求学术事业，也有助于扩大URM学生在STEM领域的全国参与。

The University of South Florida will serve as the 2016-2018 Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) institutional site for the NSF Florida-Georgia Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (FGLSAMP) Project with the goal of increasing the number of underrepresented students in STEM who will become the next generation of scientists, engineers, research innovators, entrepreneurs, and faculty role models. USF's FGLSAMP BD Project will provide the unique academic setting and multiple opportunities to facilitate the professional advancement of LSAMP graduates committed to both achieving outstanding careers in engineering, computational, mathematics, and scientific disciplines (physical, biological, geosciences), and shaping the nation's 21st century STEM research agenda. The new FGLSAMP BD Activity will boldly build upon the overwhelming success of six previous FGLSAMP USF BD awards (94% of students are expected to earn an advanced STEM degree) by institutionalizing the best practices initiated with the 2004 BD Project to all USF STEM majors. The project also embodies proven organizational and operational principles by extending the successful LSAMP model of empowering minority undergraduates toward achieving academic and social integration and professionalization in the sciences into graduate STEM programs. By around 2020, more than half of the nation's children are expected to come from minority or ethnic groups according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In response to these changing demographics, both the National Academies and the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) have documented the need to increase the participation of individuals from historically underrepresented groups in S&E to help maintain the nation's competitiveness in technology and research innovation. As such, an expected benefit of this university-wide, unified, institutionally integrated FGLSAMP BD project will be to help revitalize the national talent pool of domestic PhD trained scientists and engineers. Another benefit of the FGLSAMP BD activity will be to help address the critical shortfall of individuals from underrepresented groups who become STEM faculty. Through evidence-based practices (e.g., proposal writing preparation, peer-to-peer mentoring, minority scientist role model interactions, engagement with undergraduates and K-12 students, etc.), this FGLSAMP BD activity will seek to encourage a greater number of URM students to pursue both academic careers and nontraditional STEM career pathways (entrepreneurship, governmental research, industry, etc.) The five measurable objectives for the project are as follows: 1) Recruit twelve (12) minority students as NSF FGLSAMP BD fellows by fall 2016 into all USF STEM Colleges, 2) Initiate professional development activities to prepare FGLSAMP BD fellows and FGLSAMP scholars across the Alliance for competitive NSF GRFP applications and other fellowship programs, 3) Support the transition of all USF FGLSAMP BD fellows into STEM PhD programs, 4) Prepare FGLSAMP BD fellows to become globally engaged researchers through cutting-edge research projects and interactions with international scientists; and 5) Implement new graduate student mentoring and outreach initiatives that will both encourage students to pursue academic careers and also help to broaden the national participation of URM students in STEM.