Bridge to the Doctorate: Alabama LSAMP

Louis Stokes少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)计划通过培养在STEM学科中历来代表性较低的群体中具有高度竞争力的学生，帮助大学和学院实现STEM劳动力的多样化：非洲裔美国人、阿拉斯加原住民、美国印第安人、西班牙裔美国人、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。LSAMP通向博士的桥梁(BD)活动的目标是提高STEM研究生的数量和质量，重点是博士入学和完成学业。在全国高等教育机构实施的BD项目有助于实现NSF 2014-2018年战略计划中的目标之一，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。”为了保持美国在全球的竞争力，它必须在支撑知识经济的STEM领域提供出色的教育准备。该项目通过制定吸引、留住、教育和毕业代表性不足的研究生的战略来服务于国家利益。阿拉巴马LSAMP通往阿拉巴马大学博士学位的桥梁是为实现博士学位之桥的具体目标和优先事项而设计的。其目标是为代表不足的少数民族学生提供必要的学术和研究技能，使他们能够成功获得STEM博士学位，增加成功完成STEM博士课程的代表不足的少数民族学生的数量，并为BD参与者申请NSF的研究生研究奖学金计划(GRFP)和类似的竞争性奖学金做好准备。BD学员将接受广泛的培训和专业发展活动，并提供指导和网络，为他们继续攻读研究生课程做好准备，并使他们能够成功地获得STEM博士学位。评估计划将评估阿拉巴马州LSAMP BD在实现目标方面的成功。该计划包括形成性(过程)和总结性(结果)两个部分。形成性评估将跟踪BD计划的活动。终结性评估将跟踪该计划在实现每个奖学金获得者的首要目标方面的成功情况。为了加强评估的严谨性，将审查与UA STEM博士项目中代表人数不足的群体的招聘、奖学金授予和保留有关的机构数据，但这些群体不是BD计划的一部分，以进行比较。

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." For the U.S. to remain competitive globally, it must provide exceptional educational preparedness in STEM areas that underpin the knowledge-based economy. This project serves the national interest by developing strategies for attracting, retaining, educating, and graduating underrepresented graduate students. The Alabama LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate at The University of Alabama is designed to accomplish the specific goals and priorities of the Bridge to the Doctorate Program. The objectives are to provide underrepresented minority students with the necessary academic and research skills that will enable them to successfully earn STEM doctoral degrees, to increase the number of underrepresented minority students who successfully complete STEM doctoral programs, and to prepare BD participants to apply for the NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) and similar competitive fellowships. BD participants will be provided with extensive training and professional development activities coupled with mentoring and networking to prepare them to persist in their graduate program and to enable them to successfully earn their STEM doctoral degree. The evaluation plan will assess the success of the Alabama LSAMP BD in meeting the objectives. The plan includes both formative (process) and summative (outcomes) components. The formative evaluation will track the activities for the BD program. The summative evaluation will track the success of the program in meeting its overarching goals for each fellowship recipient. To enhance the rigor of the evaluation, institutional data regarding the recruitment, fellowship awards, and retention of underrepresented groups in UA STEM doctoral programs, but who are not part of the BD program, will be examined for comparison.