MoLSAMP

密苏里州路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（MoLSAMP）包括两个HBCU，三个主要的研究机构，一个区域综合大学，一个高度选择性的文科大学和一个城市社区学院。MoLSAMP联盟将部署各种活动，并在各个校区之间建立逻辑凝聚力，以促进代表性不足的少数民族学生的招聘，保留和毕业，目标是在五年内增加代表性不足的少数民族（URM）的数量，主修STEM学科并获得学位毕业125%。劳动和社会事务部为实现这一宏伟目标而开展的活动旨在解决影响本科教育成功的认知和非认知因素。特色活动包括扩大获得研究和实习机会，提供真实的世界应用科学的经验，由专门的教师和管理人员提供全面的学术咨询和指导，为一年级和二年级学生提供夏桥计划，职业发展会议和研究研讨会旨在使学生和教师聚集在一起，进行信息和鼓舞人心的社交聚会。为了促进边界精简的协同努力，将建立衔接和反向衔接协议，以增加联盟机构之间的学分流动性。一个全面和经常更新的MoLSAMP网站将提供有关MoLSAMP活动和相关资源的详细信息，并作为联盟校园内和之间的学生和教师沟通的渠道。将不断评估劳动和社会事务部支持的活动，以确定最佳做法，并通过各种渠道传播成果，以促进努力提高城市管理机构在全国范围内的参与和在STEM方面的成功。MoLSAMP的主要目标是到2021年将URM的招聘，保留和成功完成STEM学位的人数增加至少125%。这一目标将有助于解决少数群体在STEM教育和劳动力中代表性不足的问题，并随着MoLSAMP支持活动的成功，为全国高校的更广泛努力提供信息，以使STEM学生人口多样化，并最终加强我们国家的科学劳动力。少数民族学生面临着各种挑战，导致他们在STEM学位课程中的代表性不足。这些挑战包括对大学STEM课程的准备不足，经济困难以及在大学第一年未能融入社会和文化。MoLSAMP学者将获得各种支持机制，以减轻这些因素，包括侵入性的学术咨询，通过研究和实习机会，社会，学术和职业网络机会，通过MoLSAMP组织的社交聚会，社交媒体平台，辅导计划和夏桥计划探索应用科学的充足机会。MoLSAMP活动还将包括采取措施，增加学生从圣路易斯社区学院成功转入四年制学位联盟机构，并将URM学生进入研究生课程的人数增加25%。成功和大幅增加URM学生完成学位，进入研究生课程，在研究实验室工作，重要的是，教学和指导下一代URM STEM学生的数量，应该为STEM教育和行业的多样性可持续增长提供一个支架。

The Missouri Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (MoLSAMP) includes two HBCUs, three major research institutions, a regional comprehensive university, a highly selective liberal arts university and an urban community college. The MoLSAMP Alliance will deploy a variety of activities and establish a logical cohesiveness among the individual campuses to promote recruitment, retention and graduation of underrepresented minority students with a goal to increase the number of underrepresented minorities (URM) majoring in and graduation with degrees in STEM disciplines by 125% in five years. The activities undertaken by MoLSAMP to achieve this ambitious objective will be designed to address both the cognitive and non-cognitive factors that influence success in undergraduate education. Featured activities include expansion of access to research and internships that provide experience in real world applied science, comprehensive academic advising and mentoring by dedicated faculty and administration, summer bridge programs for first and second year students and career development conferences and research symposiums designed to bring students and faculty together for informative and inspirational social gatherings. To facilitate a boundary-lite synergistic effort, articulation and reverse articulation agreements will be established to increase fluidity of academic credits between alliance institutions. A comprehensive and frequently updated MoLSAMP website will provide detailed information regarding MoLSAMP activities and related resources and serve as a conduit for student and faculty communication within and between alliance campuses. MoLSAMP supported activities will be continually evaluated to identify best practices and results will be disseminated though a variety of channels to facilitate efforts to increase URM participation and success in STEM nationwide.The MoLSAMP Alliance currently yields 64% of the total STEM baccalaureate degrees conferred to URMs in the State of Missouri. A primary goal of MoLSAMP is to increase the recruitment, retention and successful STEM degree completion of URMs by at least 125% by the year 2021. This goal will help to address the underrepresentation of minority groups in STEM education and the workforce, and with the success of MoLSAMP supported activities, inform the broader efforts of colleges and universities nationwide to diversify the STEM student population and ultimately strengthen our nation's science based workforce. Minority students face a variety of challenges that contribute to their underrepresentation in STEM degree programs. These challenges include insufficient preparation for college level STEM coursework, financial hardship and failure to socially and culturally integrate during the first year of college. MoLSAMP scholars will receive a variety of support mechanisms to mitigate these factors, including intrusive academic advising, ample opportunity to explore applied science through research and internship opportunities, social, academic and career networking opportunities through MoLSAMP organized social gatherings, social media platforms, mentoring programs, and summer bridge programs. MoLSAMP activities will also include measures to increase successful transfer of students from St. Louis Community College to four year degree Alliance institutions, and a 25% increase in URM students entering graduate programs. Successfully and substantially increasing the number of URM students completing degrees, entering graduate programs, working in research laboratories and importantly, teaching and mentoring the next generation of URM STEM students, should provide a scaffold for a sustainable increase in diversity in STEM education and industry.