Northeast LSAMP Alliance: 2016-2021

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实现科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）劳动力的多样化，通过努力显著增加历史上代表性不足的少数民族人口的学生数量，使他们成功完成高质量的STEM学位课程。康涅狄格大学（UCONN）将成为2016-2021年项目期间东北路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（NELSAMP）的牵头机构。NELSAMP包括该机构和以下合作伙伴：马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校，罗德岛大学（URI），东北大学和伍斯特理工学院（WPI）。该联盟将在2016年扩大到包括塔夫茨大学，并将在东北地区的几所社区大学扩展招聘和保留干预措施，并改进发音策略。这些社区学院包括马萨诸塞湾社区学院、罗德岛社区学院、纽约州立大学阿迪朗达克社区学院等。在接下来的五年里，三个相互关联的主题指导NELSAMP努力提高URM STEM学生的入学率，保留率和毕业率：1)伙伴关系：通过与其他大学，学校和组织建立战略伙伴关系，本地，区域和国际，NELSAMP将发展促进和传播最佳实践的关系；增加从社区学院、技术高中和少数族裔学区招收URM学生攻读学士学位课程；并增加资源提供给澳门大学的学生。2)高期望：期望NELSAMP学生成为优秀的学者和领导者，并将从事研究，国际交流和实习经验，为他们在工业，政府和学术界成为充满活力的STEM专业人士做好准备。3)社区建设：NELSAMP建立学习者社区，促进奖学金，协作，领导和服务，促进联盟内外成功，富有成效的关系。联盟项目评估结果评估了NELSAMP战略的有效性，将与教育界分享，以建立知识库并促进最佳实践的实施。此外，该项目还包括一项研究，调查URM STEM学生的教育和职业抱负如何随着时间的推移而变化和发展。这项研究有可能为STEM教育界提供有关本科STEM学生大学毕业后决策过程的宝贵见解，并建议各院校如何促进更多的URM学生攻读STEM研究生课程。

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce through their efforts at significantly increasing the numbers of students from historically underrepresented minority populations to successfully complete high quality degree programs in STEM.The University of Connecticut (UCONN) will become the lead institution for the Northeast Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NELSAMP) for the 2016-2021 project period. NELSAMP comprises this institution and the following partners: University of Massachusetts-Amherst, University of Rhode Island (URI), Northeastern University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). The alliance will expand to include Tufts University in 2016 and will extend recruitment and retention interventions and improved articulation strategies to several community colleges in the northeast region. These community colleges include the MassBay Community College, Community College of Rhode Island, SUNY Adirondack Community College, among others. Over the next five years, three interrelated themes guide NELSAMP's efforts to increase URM STEM student enrollment, retention, and graduation: 1) PARTNERSHIP: By building strategic partnerships with other universities, schools, and organizations locally, regionally, and internationally, NELSAMP will develop relationships that promote and disseminate best practices; increase recruitment of URM students from community colleges, technical high schools, and minority-serving school districts to baccalaureate degree programs; and increase the resources available to URM students. 2) HIGH EXPECTATIONS: NELSAMP students are expected to excel as both scholars and leaders and will engage in research, international exchange, and internship experiences to prepare them for roles as dynamic STEM professionals in industry, government, and academia. 3) COMMUNITY BUILDING: NELSAMP builds communities of learners that foster scholarship, collaboration, leadership, and service and promote successful, productive relationships within and beyond the Alliance. Alliance program evaluation findings assessing the effectiveness of NELSAMP's strategies will be shared with the education community to build the knowledge base and foster implementation of best practices. In addition, the project includes a study to investigate how URM STEM students' educational and career aspirations change and develop over time. The study has the potential to provide the STEM education community valuable insights on the post-college decision making processes of undergraduate STEM students and suggest means by which institutions can promote greater numbers of URM students to pursue graduate study in STEM.