LSAMP BD: Tennessee State University TLSAMP

田纳西州立大学（TSU）是一所历史悠久的黑人大学（HBCU），也是田纳西州LSAMP的牵头机构，被TLSAMP联盟选为2018-2020年第二届LSAMP博士学位桥梁项目的主办单位。一组12名LSAMP BD学生将从事STEM研究，学术和专业发展，最终接受并完成博士课程。TSU的田纳西LSAMP研究生BD项目将有潜力继续促进研究生教育实践和政策的系统性变革，以提高个体学生在博士道路上的成功和STEM研究生项目的有效性，目标是使美国的STEM劳动力多样化。在范德比尔特大学（VU）第一个田纳西州LSAMP BD项目成功的基础上，TSU将采用VU经过验证的“工具包”，其中包括创新的招聘、参与、保留、学生跟踪和传播组件，其中包括一个指导电子仪表板，以促进指导的形成和实时跟踪学生的进步和发展。该工具包还包含有可能改变传统研究生教育实践的面试协议。该计划包括与其他STEM网络和资源以及其他研究生课程（如NSF的研究生研究奖学金计划（GRFP））和机构资源的合作和联系，以确保学生成功完成STEM博士学位。该计划将进行外部评估，并通过该计划跟踪学生，并在完成STEM博士学位课程后进入STEM职业。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Tennessee State University (TSU), a Historically Black University (HBCU) and lead institution for the Tennessee LSAMP, has been chosen by the TLSAMP Alliance to serve as the host site for the second cohort of LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate participants during 2018-2020. A cohort of 12 LSAMP BD students will engage in STEM research, academics and professional development leading to acceptance and completion of the doctoral program. The Tennessee LSAMP graduate BD program at TSU will have the potential to continue to promote systemic change in graduate education practices and policy, in ways that increase the success of individual students on the doctoral pathway and the effectiveness of STEM graduate programs with a goal of diversifying America's STEM workforce.Building upon the success of the first Tennessee LSAMP BD program at Vanderbilt University (VU), TSU will employ VU's proven "toolkit" with components for innovative recruitment, engagement, retention, student tracking and dissemination that will include a mentoring e-dashboard to advance the practice of mentoring formatively and real-time tracking student progress and development. The toolkit also accommodates interview protocols that has the potential to transform traditional graduate education practices. The program includes collaborations and linkages with other STEM networks and resources as well as other graduate programs, such as NSF's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), and institutional resources to ensure students successful completion of the STEM doctoral degree. The program will be externally evaluated and students tracked through the program and into STEM careers following completion of STEM doctoral degree programs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.