Louis Stokes B2B Alliance: Central Florida STEM Alliance Paths to Engagement : Central Florida STEM Alliance Paths to Engagement

Louis Stokes少数民族参与联盟(LSAMP)计划帮助大学和学院使科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)劳动力多样化，努力显著增加来自历史上代表性不足的少数族裔人口的学生数量，以成功完成STEM的高质量学位课程。在接下来的三年里，由四所社区学院组成的佛罗里达中部STEM联盟(CFSA)将与佛罗里达州立大学系统的三所授予学士学位的机构(佛罗里达农业与机械大学、佛罗里达理工学院和佛罗里达理工大学)合作，以支持联盟STEM领域的学生保留、转移和成功毕业。联盟机构包括巴伦西亚社区学院(牵头机构)、佛罗里达中部学院、帕斯科-埃尔南多州立学院和波尔克州立学院。在联盟过去成功的基础上，它将继续与STEM领域历史上代表性不足的学生合作，同时研究创新和基于证据的战略，以最大限度地增加社区大学生的STEM机会。在为期三年的项目期间，该项目将使成功转入STEM学士学位课程的学生人数净增加30%。CFSA将分析与归属感、STEM认同感、STEM自我效能相结合的创新策略，以及这些因素对小学生在STEM道路上坚持不懈的影响。该项目将在LSAMP项目理论和Tinto模型(1987)的基础上，通过考察社会、情感、教育、财务和文化条件，更深入地研究目标学生开始识别为新兴STEM专业人员和属于STEM社区的条件。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 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce through their efforts at significantly increasing the numbers of students from historically underrepresented minority populations to successfully complete high-quality degree programs in STEM. Over the next three years, the Central Florida STEM Alliance (CFSA), an alliance of four community colleges, will partner with three baccalaureate degree-granting institutions (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Florida Institute of Technology, and Florida Polytechnic University) from the State University System of Florida to support the retention, transfer, and successful graduation of Alliance students in STEM fields. The alliance institutions include Valencia Community College (Lead institution), College of Central Florida, Pasco-Hernando State College, and Polk State College.Building on the Alliance’s past successes, it will continue to work with students who are historically underrepresented in STEM fields while studying innovative and evidence-based strategies to maximize STEM opportunities for community college students. The project will achieve a 30% net increase in the number of students who successfully transfer into STEM baccalaureate degree programs over the three-year project period. The CFSA will analyze innovative strategies aligned with the intersection of sense of belonging, STEM identity, STEM self-efficacy, and the impact these factors have on persistence in STEM pathways among minoritized students. This project will more deeply examine the conditions under which targeted students begin to identify as emerging STEM professionals and as belonging to a STEM community, building on the LSAMP program theory and Tinto Model (1987) by examining the social, emotional, educational, financial, and cultural conditions that accelerate student progress in the community college context.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.