STEM Pathways Implementation-Only Alliance: Central New York LSAMP Alliance (CNYLA)

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划帮助大学和学院实现科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）劳动力的多样化，通过他们的努力显着增加来自历史上代表性不足的少数民族人口的学生人数，以成功完成高质量的STEM学位课程。新的中央纽约LSAMP联盟（CNYLA）STEM路径实施（SPIO）项目由纽约州的七所小型两年制和四年制学院和大学组成（伊萨卡学院、尤蒂卡学院、科特兰的纽约、纽约州立大学环境科学与林业学院、霍巴特和威廉史密斯学院、汤普金斯科特兰社区学院和赫基默县社区学院）。 该联盟专注于自然科学，数学和计算机科学专业，以扩大高影响力的实践，使历史上代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生能够在小型学校环境中体验STEM教育的最大好处。 它还旨在加强开始在社区学院的URM学生的STEM学士学位的转移途径。 项目小组假设，如果少数民族学生有机会体验到改善的教师和同伴关系、指导、对两年制和四年制学校之间转学的大力支持，他们将受益于较小的学校环境;和早期的研究经验，以发展认同感，自我效能感，CNYLA活动将支持URM学生在以文科为重点的小型学校提供的高质量教育中取得成功。正如联盟机构STEM毕业生的质量所证明的那样，增加URM学生的保留率和毕业率的支持将增加STEM领域极具竞争力的有色人种的数量，从而使推进这些领域所需的观点多样化。联盟活动和共享资源将加强成员机构之间的伙伴关系，并支持规模较小的学校之间的合作模式，以提高效率，同时保持高质量的学生支持。 该项目将利用教师培训和指导，利用最佳实践来提高教师的能力，以支持来自农村社区的学生，并改变课堂，实验室，部门和机构文化，使其更具包容性。 项目成果将通过专业STEM会议、学术出版物，特别是小型文科本科院校广泛传播。该奖项反映了NSF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 number of students from historically underrepresented minority populations to successfully complete high-quality degree programs in STEM. The new Central New York LSAMP Alliance (CNYLA) STEM Pathways Implementation-Only (SPIO) projects consists of seven small two- and four-year colleges and universities in New York state (Ithaca College, Utica College, State University of New York at Cortland, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Tompkins Cortland Community College, and Herkimer County Community College). The alliance focuses on majors in natural sciences, math, and computer science programs to expand high-impact practices enabling historically underrepresented minority (URM) students to experience the maximum benefits of a STEM education in a small school environment. It also aims to strengthen transfer pathways to the STEM baccalaureate for URM students who begin at a community college. The project team hypothesizes that minority students will benefit from smaller school environments if given opportunities to experience improved faculty and peer relationships; mentoring; strong support for transfer between two-year and four-year schools; and early research experiences to develop a sense of identity, self-efficacy, and belonging in STEM.CNYLA activities will support URM students to succeed in a high-quality education as provided by smaller schools with a liberal arts focus. As evidenced by the quality of the STEM graduates from the alliance institutions, support that increases retention and graduation rates of URM students will increase the number of highly competitive persons of color in STEM fields, thus diversifying the perspectives needed to advance those fields. The alliance activities and shared resources will strengthen the partnerships between the member institutions and support a model of cooperation between smaller schools to improve efficiency while maintaining high-quality student support. The project will leverage faculty training and mentoring using best practices to increase faculty competency to support students from rural communities and change the classroom, lab, departmental, and institutional cultures to become more inclusive. Project results will be disseminated broadly via professional STEM conferences, scholarly publications, and especially to small liberal arts undergraduate institutions.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.