Tennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation

路易斯·斯托克斯少数派参与联盟(LSAMP)计划是一项以联盟为基础的计划。该计划的总体目标是通过增加授予这些学科历史上代表性不足的人群的STEM学士学位和研究生学位的数量，帮助大学和学院使国家的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)劳动力多样化。田纳西州路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟(TLSAMP)的目标是显著提高授予科学、技术、工程或数学(STEM)学科的代表不足的少数族裔学生的学士学位的质量和数量。TLSAMP是10所高等教育机构的战略合作，最初由6所公立和私立机构组成--勒莫因·欧文学院、田纳西中部州立大学、田纳西州立大学、孟菲斯大学、田纳西-诺克斯维尔大学和范德比尔特大学。扩大了TLSAMP，增加了四所学院和大学，即菲斯克大学、田纳西理工大学、纳什维尔州立社区学院和田纳西西南社区学院。TLSAMP合作伙伴在招募、培养和发展下一代科学家、领导者和高技能劳动力方面有着共同的利益，以确保田纳西州的经济繁荣和美国的全球卓越地位。在接下来的五年里，联盟将加大努力招收少数族裔STEM学生，实施以研究为基础的战略，留住学生到毕业，并增加少数族裔STEM毕业生过渡到研究生院的人数。通过混合方法的探索性序贯设计，TLSAMP联盟建议进行一项研究研究，以考察指导来自科学、技术、工程和数学领域未被充分代表的群体(URG)的学生所涉及的因素，这些学生处于毕业学业阶段的关键保留期。这项研究将提供对辅导作为一种战略的见解和理解，以从根本上解决URG在STEM教育和STEM职业生涯中增加参与和支持的持续需求。学生辅导者、他们的导师、联盟PI和协调员将作为受访者参与建议的研究。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 is an alliance-based program. The overall goal of the program is to assist universities and colleges in diversifying the nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce by increasing the number of STEM baccalaureate and graduate degrees awarded to populations historically underrepresented in these disciplines.The goal of the Tennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TLSAMP) is to significantly increase the quality and quantity of baccalaureate degrees awarded to underrepresented minority students who major in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) discipline. TLSAMP is a strategic collaboration of 10 institutions of higher education which began with six public and private institutions - LeMoyne Owen College, Middle Tennessee State University, Tennessee State University, the University of Memphis, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and Vanderbilt University. TLSAMP was expanded by adding four additional colleges and universities, that is, Fisk University, Tennessee Technological University, Nashville State Community College, and Southwest Tennessee Community College. TLSAMP partners share a collective interest in recruiting, cultivating, and developing the next generation of scientists, leaders, and a highly skilled workforce to ensure not only Tennessee's economic prosperity but also America's global preeminence. Over the next five years, the Alliance will increase its efforts to recruit minority STEM students, implement research-based strategies to retain students to graduation, and increase the number of minority STEM graduates that transition to graduate school. Through a mixed-method exploratory sequential design, the TLSAMP Alliance proposes to conduct a research study that examines the factors involved in mentoring students from underrepresented groups (URG) in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and who are at the critical retention to graduation academic stage. This research study will provide insights and understanding of mentoring as a strategy that fundamentally addresses the persistent need for increased participation and support of URG in STEM education and employment in STEM careers. Student mentees, their mentors, Alliance PIs, and coordinators will participate as respondents in the proposed study.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.