Pre-Alliance Planning: Working Together ? Adelante!

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，以实现STEM劳动力的多样化。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、高度合格和有动力在STEM攻读研究生教育或职业的学生。培养STEM人才的需求已经确立。对于美国(美国)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。来自不同种族的美国学生在STEM领域的代表性不足，对于美国ST的STEM劳动力来说，这是一种尚未开发的资源。圣安东尼奥的圣母大学、圣母湖大学、三一大学和化身世界大学，主要是圣安东尼奥的本科大学(PUI)，旨在成立一个新的仅限STEM路径实施(SPIO)联盟，以增加授予STEM劳动力中代表不足的少数族裔(URM)的STEM学士学位和研究生学位的数量。参与联盟前规划项目的三个机构是西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)。该项目将专注于确定STEM管道中“泄漏”的原因，方法是首先设计一个协作性和标准化的指标来跟踪学生队列，确定数据差距，并在联盟学生中进行需求评估，以确定阻碍URM学生在STEM留住的障碍。规划活动将包括为期18个月的几个讲习班。这一联盟前规划项目旨在通过评估潜在的干预措施和确定学生感觉到的留住障碍，最终加强URM学生在STEM领域的准备并增加他们的保留率。关于分析保留率数据，该联盟将制定一项计划，该计划将在高等教育领域传播，以记录STEM专业一年级以后的学生保留率，并跟踪进入研究生/专业学校的URM STEM专业学生。该项目的主要成果将是制定衡量标准、评估设计和评估方法，以帮助全面联盟提案的开发。项目结果的传播具有定制和应用于全国其他PUI和MSI机构的潜力。对该项目的支持由路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟以及人力资源开发部门(HRD)和本科教育部门(DUE)的西班牙裔服务机构(HSI)计划联合提供。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 in order 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. The need for cultivating STEM talent has been well established. 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. American students from diverse ethnic groups are underrepresented in STEM fields,and represent an untapped resource for the STEM workforce in the U.S.St. Mary’s University, Our Lady of the Lake University, Trinity University, and the University of the Incarnate Word, all Primarily Undergraduate Universities (PUIs) in San Antonio, aim to form a new Louis Stokes STEM Pathways Implementation-Only (SPIO) Alliance to increase the number of STEM baccalaureate and graduate degrees awarded to students that are underrepresented minority (URM) in the STEM workforce. Three institutions participating in the pre-alliance planning project are Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs).This project will focus on identifying the causes of “leaks” in the STEM pipeline by first designing a collaborative and normalized metric to track student cohorts, identifying data gaps, and conducting a needs assessment among the Alliance students to identify barriers to URM student retention in STEM. Planning activities will include several workshops over the 18-month period.This Pre-Alliance Planning project seeks to ultimately increase the preparedness of URM students in STEM fields and increase their retention, through the evaluation of potential interventions and identification of student perceived barriers to retention. With regards to analyzing retention data, the Alliance will develop a plan, which will be disseminated through the higher education landscape, to document student retention in STEM majors beyond the first year and to track URM STEM majors who enter graduate/professional school. The major outcome from this project will be the development of metrics, an evaluation design, and assessment methods to aid in development of the full alliance proposal. Dissemination of project results have the potential for customization and application to other PUI and MSI institutions in the nation.Support for this project is jointly provided by the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation and the Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Programs in the Division of Human Resource Development (HRD) and the Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE).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.