Louis Stokes Regional Centers of Excellence in Broadening Participation

Louis Stokes少数民族参与联盟(LSAMP)计划帮助大学和学院使科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)劳动力多样化，努力显著增加来自历史上代表性较低的少数群体(非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美国印第安人或阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民或其他太平洋岛民)的学生数量，成功完成STEM的高质量学位课程。路易·斯托克斯扩大参与地区英才中心(LSRCE)旨在为拓展、知识创造和传播活动或其他有助于STEM教育成功实践的活动提供地区性试验平台。发展更强大、更多样化的STEM劳动力队伍显然是促进经济繁荣和保持全球科学领导地位的国家需要。为实现这一目标而开展的工作符合国家科学基金会促进科学进步的使命。自2004年以来，Fisk-Vanderbilt硕士至博士桥项目通过发现和促进来自历史上代表性不足或服务不足的群体的人才，扩大了对STEM的参与。到目前为止，桥牌项目的参与者已经获得了80多个硕士学位和29个博士学位。值得注意的是，学士学位课程的博士留存率为83%，八年制博士毕业率为90%，远高于全国平均水平。菲斯克大学LSRCE工作的广泛目标是产生关于最佳做法的新知识，以促进可在区域和国家范围内传播的更广泛的参与。该中心有三个目标：1)以他们现有的公开工具包为基础，创建一个更全面的指南，详细说明这些工具背后的理论和研究；2)研究计划活动的有效性，创建可广泛传播给高等教育界的内部评估和数据收集工具；以及3)主办一次区域研讨会，重点是从其他当地机构寻找最佳实践，传播菲斯克-范德比尔特硕士到博士桥计划指南中的理论和工具，并将实践者与研究人员联系起来。中心为实现这些目标所采取的基本方法是与范德比尔特·皮博迪教育学院和美国研究所的社会科学家和教育研究人员发展关系。FISK大学LSRCE试图更好地解释扩大参与的科学，促进对最佳做法的理解，同时开发工具，以简化活动和干预措施的实施，促进更多样化的STEM劳动力的发展。该中心的工作将传播给更大的科学界，以促进这些实践的采用，以造福我们的国家。该奖项由NSF Includes共同资助，专注于催化STEM企业为包容性变革而合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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 (African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians or Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians or Other Pacific Islanders) to successfully complete high quality degree programs in STEM. Louis Stokes Regional Centers of Excellence in Broadening Participation (LSRCE) are designed to serve as regional testbeds for outreach, knowledge-generating and diffusion activities or other activities that contribute to successful practices in STEM education.Developing a stronger, more diverse STEM workforce is a clear national need to promote economic prosperity and maintain global leadership in science. Work toward that end is in accord with the National Science Foundation's mission to promote the progress of science. Since 2004, the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master's to PhD Bridge Program has broadened participation in STEM through identifying and promoting talent from historically underrepresented or underserved groups. To date, bridge program participants have earned over 80 Master's degrees and 29 PhDs. Of note, the retention rate to the PhD for the bridge program is 83% and 90% for the 8-year PhD completion rate, well above the national averages. The broad goal of the Fisk University LSRCE work is to generate new knowledge about best practices to promote broadening participation that can be disseminated on a regional and national scale. The Center have three objectives: 1) Build on their current publicly available toolkit to create a more comprehensive guide detailing the theory and research underlying the tools; 2) Research the effectiveness of program activities and create tools for internal evaluation and data collection that can be widely disseminated to the higher education community; and 3) Host a regional workshop focused on identifying best practices from other local institutions, disseminate the theory and tools from the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master's to PhD Bridge Program guide, and connect practitioners with researchers. The fundamental approach that the Center is taking to achieve these objectives is to develop a relationship with social scientists and educational researchers at the Vanderbilt Peabody School of Education and the American Institutes for Research. Fisk University LSRCE seek to better explain the science of broadening participation, to advance understanding of best practices and simultaneously develop tools to ease the implementation of activities and interventions that promote the development of a more diverse STEM workforce. The Center's work will be disseminated to the larger scientific community to promote adoption of these practices to the benefit of our nation.This award is co-funded by NSF INCLUDES which focuses on catalyzing the STEM enterprise to collaboratively work for inclusive change.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.