LSAMP BD: University of Texas at Dallas University of Texas System LSAMP

为了保持美国的创新和全球竞争力，对高技能和多样化的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)劳动力的需求越来越大。要建立这样一支队伍，必须解决的最重要障碍之一是，少数族裔学生在STEM研究生教育中的代表性严重不足。Louis Stokes少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)计划通过努力显著增加成功完成科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科高质量学位课程的学生数量，帮助大学和学院实现STEM劳动力的多元化。特别强调通过创新的招聘和保留战略和经验来改变STEM教育，以支持在STEM学科中历来代表性不足的群体：非洲裔美国人、阿拉斯加原住民、美洲印第安人、西班牙裔美国人、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校(UT Dallas)的博士桥(BD)项目是德克萨斯大学系统LSAMP的一部分，它将通过为12名来自代表不足的少数民族(URM)的博士生提供大量奖学金、指导和专业发展活动来解决这一关键问题，使他们能够成功地从本科项目过渡到完成STEM领域的博士学位。这些研究员将在自然科学和数学学院、埃里克·琼森工程和计算机科学学院、行为和脑科学学院以及艺术、技术和新兴传播学院承担STEM研究项目。德州大学达拉斯分校的BD项目还试图通过为URM学生创建新的支持计划、新的URM学生招聘和访问周末、教师指导资源，并提高URM学生和校友的知名度，来改变机构文化。因此，该计划不仅将使这批BD研究员受益，还将导致更多在达拉斯大学成功完成博士学位并成功过渡到劳动力市场的STEM学生。德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校(UT Dallas)是德克萨斯大学(UT)LSAMP的一部分，桥到博士(BD)计划将支持未被充分代表的少数族裔(URM)学生完成STEM博士学位，并将制定最佳实践，以提高这些学生的成功率。这些最佳实践将以我们的合作伙伴在UT LSAMP中的经验为基础。该BD项目将有助于加深对URM学生博士和研究生教育的理解。在整个项目中，将使用形成性和总结性数据来确定哪些干预措施，如改进的指导和充实以及职业发展活动，能够使URM小组的学生成功地从本科项目过渡到完成STEM领域的博士学位。它还将确定这些活动如何对教师导师和顾问产生积极影响。这些干预措施将使教师能够确定和发展最好地支持URM学生所需的指导技能，并更好地了解URM学生为STEM博士项目带来的好处和机会。该计划将有助于建立一支多元化、创新和具有全球竞争力的劳动力队伍，这是美国竞争法案和相关倡议所设想的，例如在德克萨斯州。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。

There is an increasing demand for a highly-skilled and diverse science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce to maintain US innovation and global competitiveness. To create such a workforce one of the most important barriers that must be addressed is the severe under-representation of minority students in STEM graduate education. The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the STEM workforce through their efforts by significantly increasing the numbers of students successfully completing high quality degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Particular emphasis is placed on transforming STEM education through innovative recruitment and retention strategies and experiences in support of groups historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines: African-Americans, Alaskan Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. The Bridge-to-Doctorate (BD) program at the University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), which is part of the University of Texas System LSAMP, will address this critical issue by providing 12 incoming PhD students from underrepresented minority (URM) groups with substantial fellowships, mentoring and professional development activities to enable their successful transition from undergraduate programs to complete a PhD in a STEM field. The Fellows will undertake STEM research projects within the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science, the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences and the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication. The BD Program at UT Dallas also seeks to change the institutional culture by creating new support programs for URM students, a new URM student recruitment and visitation weekend, faculty mentoring resources, and improve the visibility highly-talented and motivated URM students and alumni. Thus this program will not only benefit this cohort of BD Fellows but also lead to increased numbers of URM students in STEM who successfully complete their doctoral degrees at UT Dallas and successfully transition into workforce in the long term.The University of Texas at Dallas (UT Dallas), which is part of the University of Texas (UT) LSAMP, Bridge-to-Doctorate (BD) Program will support underrepresented minority (URM) students in completing doctoral degrees in STEM and will develop best practices that increase success for these students. These best practices will build on the experiences by our partner in the UT LSAMP. This BD Program will contribute to the understanding of the doctoral and graduate education of URM students. Throughout the program, formative, as well as summative, data will be employed to determine which interventions, such as improved mentoring and enrichment and professional development activities, enable students from URM groups to successfully transition from undergraduate programs to the completion of a PhD in a STEM field. It will also determine how these activities positively impact the faculty mentors and advisors. These interventions will enable faculty to identify and develop the mentoring skills needed to best support URM students and to better understand the benefits and opportunities URM students bring to STEM doctoral programs. This program will contribute to a diverse, innovative and globally competitive workforce as envisioned by the America COMPETES Act and related initiatives, such as those in the State of Texas.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.