Louis Stokes STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: California Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation

Louis Stokes少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)计划帮助大学和学院努力大幅增加科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科的高质量学位课程录取并成功完成的学生数量，以使STEM劳动力多样化。特别强调通过创新的、基于证据的招聘和保留战略以及相关的教育经验来转变本科STEM教育，以支持在STEM学科中历来代表性不足的种族和民族：非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美国印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。这些战略有助于培养准备充分的学生，这些学生非常合格，有动力在STEM继续研究生教育或职业生涯。为了保持全球竞争力，至关重要的是要挖掘所有公民的才华，并在支撑知识经济的STEM领域提供出色的教育准备。加州路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟(CAMP)计划成立于1991年，以满足对更多样化和更熟练的技术劳动力的需求。这一需求仍然存在，在加利福尼亚州尤为迫切。参与的机构包括加州大学伯克利分校、加州大学戴维斯分校、加州大学欧文分校、加州大学洛杉矶分校、加州大学默塞德分校、加州大学河滨分校、加州大学圣克鲁斯分校、加州大学圣巴巴拉分校和加州大学圣地亚哥分校。CAMP STEM路径和研究联盟的目标是：(1)稳步和大幅提高STEM专业招收的少数族裔学生的质量和数量，(2)增加和维持学士学位的生产，(3)扩大本科生的研究机会，(4)增加STEM研究生教育项目的入学人数，以及(5)通过强有力的评估和评估证明CAMP的有效性。这些目标支持了国家科学基金会的战略目标，即“培养一支世界级的、广泛包容的科学和工程劳动力队伍，并扩大所有公民的科学素养。”这些目标将通过加强招生、选拔和定向来实现；为转学学生提供更多的学术和社会支持；教师指导的研究计划；通过批判性思维进行科学写作；通过参加研讨会和参加会议来丰富知识；准备GRE和指导研究生院申请；以及举办年度会议，展示学生的研究并向学生介绍STEM实习和就业机会。上述活动将产生更高的保留率和毕业率；此外，还将导致更有才华和多样化的STEM工作队伍。知识生成研究研究将阐明教师指导和在会议上展示研究的共享经验如何影响STEM领域的持久力和毕业率，以及未被充分代表的少数族裔学生的社会情绪参数。该研究项目将提供一个宝贵的数据集，可以在加州和全国范围内共享，以进一步增加LSAMP在增加STEM专业人员在劳动力中的多样性方面的影响。外部评估团队将实施定量和定性工具，以评估与项目总体目标相关的个别校园和整个联盟项目的整体质量。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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 their efforts to significantly increase the numbers of students matriculating into and successfully completing high quality degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to diversify the STEM workforce. Particular emphasis is placed on transforming undergraduate STEM education through innovative, evidence-based recruitment and retention strategies, and relevant educational experiences in support of racial and ethnic groups historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. These strategies facilitate the production of well-prepared students highly-qualified and motivated to pursue graduate education or careers in STEM.For the United States (U.S.) to remain globally competitive, it is vital that it taps into the talent of all its citizens and provides exceptional educational preparedness in STEM areas that underpin the knowledge-based economy. The California Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) program was established in 1991 in response to the need for a more diverse and skilled technical workforce. That need still exists and is particularly acute in the State of California. Participating institutions include the University of California (UC) Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Los Angeles, UC Merced, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, UC Santa Barbara and UC San Diego. The goals for the CAMP STEM Pathways and Research Alliance are to: (1) steadily and substantially increase the quality and quantity of minority students enrolled in STEM majors, (2) increase and sustain baccalaureate degree production, (3) expand undergraduate research opportunities, (4) increase enrollment in STEM graduate education programs, and (5) document the effectiveness of CAMP through robust evaluation and assessment. These goals support the National Science Foundation's strategic goal to "cultivate a world-class, broadly inclusive science and engineering workforce, and expand the scientific literacy of all citizens." The goals will be accomplished by enhanced student recruitment, selection and orientations; providing transfer students with additional academic and social support; faculty-mentored research programs; science writing through critical thinking; enrichment through attendance at symposia and travel to conferences; GRE preparation and guided graduate school applications; and organized annual conferences to showcase student research and inform students about STEM internship and job opportunities. The said activities will produce higher rates of retention and graduation; and moreover, lead to a more talented and diverse STEM workforce.The knowledge generating research study will elucidate how faculty mentoring and the shared experience of presenting research at conferences impacts persistence and graduation rates in STEM fields as well as underrepresented minority student social-emotional parameters. The research project will provide a valuable data set that can be shared across California and the nation to further increase the impact of LSAMP on increasing the diversity of STEM professionals in the workforce. An external evaluation team will implement both quantitative and qualitative instruments to assess the overall quality of the programs on the individual campuses as well as the entire alliance related to the overall goals of the project.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.