Louis Stokes New STEM Pathways Implementation-Only Alliance: The Bridges Across Texas Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）项目帮助大学和学院通过努力显著增加历史上代表性不足的少数民族（URM）人口的学生数量，成功完成高质量的STEM学位课程，使科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）劳动力多样化。横跨德克萨斯LSAMP的桥梁（BAT-LSAMP）是与五个西班牙裔服务机构（HSI）的高等教育合作-德克萨斯理工大学（TTU），北德克萨斯大学达拉斯分校（UNTD），达拉斯学院埃尔森特罗校区（DCECC），南平原学院（SPC）和德克萨斯最南端学院（TSC）。这种合作代表了一个人口结构多样化、地理面积大的地区，在一个基于stem的职业需求不断增加、人口结构迅速变化的州，缺乏LSAMP的支持。BAT-LSAMP是一个为期五年的跨机构项目，包括创新和基于证据的战略，以克服已确定的阻碍STEM中代表性不足的族裔群体学生坚持和成功的障碍。该项目的目标是：(1)理科大学本科学位毕业生数量翻倍，(2)理科大学本科学位毕业生数量增加。这些目标将通过在每个合作机构建立一个互动的、虚拟连接的STEM中心网络来实现，并在归属感框架的指导下实施高影响力的实践，以增加STEM urm获得和参与咨询、指导、STEM重点资源以及社会和同伴支持的发展资源。到项目结束时，BAT-LSAMP将对全州大量学生产生变革性影响，并将获得有关有效和可持续战略的跨机构知识，以促进无缝过渡，从而加强URM在STEM中的持久性和成功，从而提高保留率和毕业率。成果和经验教训的传播将采取多管并进的办法，包括传统的信息传播途径，即出版物、会议发言和社会媒体，以及将记录和公布在蝙蝠- lsamp网站上的科学研讨会。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce through their efforts at significantly increasing the numbers of students from historically underrepresented minority (URM) populations to successfully complete high-quality degree programs in STEM. The Bridges Across Texas LSAMP (BAT-LSAMP) is a collaboration with five Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) of higher education- Texas Tech University (TTU), the University of North Texas at Dallas (UNTD), Dallas College El Centro Campus (DCECC), South Plains College (SPC), and Texas Southmost College (TSC). This collaboration represents a demographically diverse and geographically large region that lacked LSAMP support in a state with a growing number of STEM-based career needs and a rapidly changing demographic. BAT-LSAMP is a five-year cross-institutional project that includes innovative and evidence-based strategies to overcome the identified barriers inhibiting the persistence and success of students from underrepresented ethnic groups in STEM. The project objectives are to (1) double the URM baccalaureate degree graduates in STEM disciplines, and (2) increase the number of URM transfers in STEM disciplines. These objectives will be achieved by establishing an interactive, virtually linked network of STEM Centers at each partner institution and implementing high-impact practices, guided by the Sense of Belonging framework, to increase STEM URMs’ access to and participation in advising, mentoring, STEM-focused resources, and developmental resources for social and peer support. By the end of the project period, BAT-LSAMP will have made a transformational impact on a large number of students across the state, and cross-institutional knowledge will be gained about effective and sustainable strategies to facilitate seamless transitions that will strengthen URM persistence and success in STEM, thereby increasing retention and graduation. Dissemination of results and lessons learned will take a multi-prong approach including traditional avenues of information dissemination, i.e., publications, conference presentations and social media and via STEMinars which will be recorded and posted on the BAT-LSAMP website.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.