Louis Stokes STEM Pathways and Research Alliance: Puerto Rico-LSAMP - Expanding Opportunities for Underrepresented College Students (2020-2025)

Louis Stokes少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)计划帮助大学和学院通过努力显著增加成功完成科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科的高质量学位课程的学生数量，使STEM劳动力多样化。特别强调通过创新的招聘和保留战略和经验来转变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、美国印第安人、西班牙裔美国人、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。2020-2024年波多黎各路易斯·斯托克斯少数群体参与联盟(PR-LSAMP)STEM途径和研究联盟(SPRA)项目将在波多黎各大学领导的STEM路径和研究联盟(SPRA)项目的基础上，在以前支持的基础上吸引、招聘和留住STEM学生完成本科和研究生学业。该联盟包括：(1)波多黎各大学系统：两个研究生院--Río Piedras和Mayaguez，以及六个四年制校区--阿瓜迪拉、阿雷西博、巴亚蒙、凯伊、胡马考和庞塞；(2)波多黎各天主教大学；(3)Ana G.Méndez大学系统--大都会大学、埃斯特大学和图拉博大学。PR-LSAMP提供了一种无缝管道的模式，以增加在STEM领域完成博士学位的人数不足的少数群体的数量。它记录和传播了可复制的本科生研究指导战略的有效性，以增加继续攻读研究生课程并为国家STEM劳动力的多样性做出贡献的人数不足的学生的数量。此外，它传播和应用学习科学的概念，以一种变革性的方式改善STEM学科的学习和教学。该项目的一个要求是产生和传播更广泛的参与研究。因此，该项目将进行影响研究，以回答以下问题：(1)PR-LSAMP模式的哪些组成部分在调解不同机构或区域背景下的变化方面更有效？(2)参与PR-LSAMP模式对学生的非认知属性(自我效能感、结果预期和STEM兴趣)的影响有多大？对该项目的支持来自改善本科生STEM教育：拉美裔服务机构(HSI计划)，该计划旨在加强本科生STEM教育并建设HSIS的能力，Louis Stokes少数民族参与联盟(LSAMP)和既定的刺激竞争研究计划(EPSCoR)。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 diversifying the STEM workforce through their efforts at 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 under-represented in STEM disciplines: African-Americans, Alaskan Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders.The 2020-2024 Puerto Rico Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (PR-LSAMP) STEM Pathways and Research Alliance (SPRA) project, under the leadership of the University of Puerto Rico, will build on the successes of previous support to attract, recruit and retain STEM students in undergraduate and graduate studies to degree completion. The alliance is comprised of: (1) the University of Puerto Rico System: two graduate campuses - Río Piedras and Mayaguez and six 4-year campuses - Aguadilla, Arecibo, Bayamon, Cayey, Humacao, and Ponce; (2) the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico; and (3) the Ana G. Méndez University System - the Universidad Metropolitana, Universidad del Este, and Universidad del Turabo. PR-LSAMP provides a model for a seamless pipeline to increase the number of underrepresented minority groups that complete a PhD in STEM fields. It documents and disseminates the effectiveness of the replicable undergraduate research mentoring strategy to increase the number of underrepresented students that continue on to graduate studies and contribute to the diversity of the nation's STEM workforce. Furthermore, it disseminates and applies concepts of Learning Science to improve learning and teaching in STEM disciplines in a transformative manner.A requirement of this project is the production and dissemination of broadening participation research. Thus, the project will conduct impact studies to answer the following questions: (1) Which components of the PR-LSAMP model are more effective at mediating changes in different institutional or regional contexts? and (2) To what extent does participating in the PR-LSAMP model changes student’s non-cognitive attributes (self-efficacy, outcome expectations and STEM interest)? Support for this project is provided by the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), that aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education and build capacity at HSIs, the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP), and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.