LOUIS STOKES B2B ALLIANCE: SHORELINE-WEST STEMConnect

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划的总体目标是通过增加授予LSAMP人群的STEM学士学位和研究生学位的数量，帮助大学和学院实现国家科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）劳动力的多样化LSAMP人群被定义为来自STEM企业中代表性不足的群体的人：黑人和非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔和拉丁裔美国人，美洲印第安人，阿拉斯加原住民，夏威夷土著人和太平洋岛民。三所社区学院包括海岸线西STEMConnect路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟，桥梁到学士学位（B2B）项目-Housatonic社区学院在布里奇波特，诺沃克社区学院在诺沃克，和纽黑文的盖特威社区学院通过对社区大学学生的学术，社会和财政支持，并与康涅狄格州，纽约，新英格兰和几所历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）的四年制合作伙伴协调，该计划将增加招聘，保留，坚持和成功转移到四年制STEM学位课程的毕业率。海岸线西STEMConnect LSAMP计划的组成部分，如指导路径建议，辅导，指导，一个以STEM为重点的夏桥计划为新生的一年级学生。除了四年制校园的学生图尔斯之旅外，还将建立STEM卓越中心，以支持学生的STEM社交和学习。将提供在政府实验室或大学的研究经验以及接触四年制学院和大学的靴子训练营。这些基于证据的活动旨在实现增加选择STEM学科并转入和毕业于学士学位产生机构的代表性不足的群体数量的目标。 通过与多个四年制学院和大学的衔接协议，学生将无缝转移到全国各地的学士学位STEM课程。Shoreline-West STEMConnect B2B网站和社交媒体网站将提供一种有效的手段来传播信息，并为STEM学生联盟范围内和全国范围内创建支持网络。项目结果，包括评估建议，将在地方，地区和国家会议上广泛传播，在那里的持久性，性能，进步和职业生涯在STEM领域.这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准的支持.

The overall goal of the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program is to assist universities and colleges in diversifying the nation's science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce by increasing the number of STEM baccalaureate and graduate degrees awarded to persons from LSAMP populations LSAMP populations are defined as persons from groups underrepresented in the STEM enterprise: Blacks and African-Americans, Hispanic and Latino Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders.Three community colleges comprise the Shoreline-West STEMConnect Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, Bridge-to-the-Baccalaureate (B2B) project-Housatonic Community College in Bridgeport, Norwalk Community College in Norwalk, and Gateway Community College in New Haven. Through academic, social and financial support to community college students and in coordination with four-year partners across Connecticut, New York, New England, and several Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), the program will increase recruitment, retention, persistence and graduation rates for successful transfer to four-year STEM degree programs. Shoreline-West STEMConnect LSAMP program components, such as Guided Pathways advising, tutoring, mentoring, a STEM-focused summer bridge program for incoming first-year students. STEM Centers of Excellence will be established to support students' STEM socialization and belongingness in addition to student tours of four-year campuses. Research experiences at government labs or universities and boot camps for exposure to four-year colleges and universities will be available. These evidence-based activities are designed to accomplish the goal of increasing the number of underrepresented groups who select STEM disciplines and transfer into and graduate from baccalaureate-producing institutions. Through articulation agreements with multiple four-year colleges and universities, students will seamlessly transfer to baccalaureate STEM programs throughout the nation. The Shoreline-West STEMConnect B2B website and social media sites will offer an effective means to disseminate information and create networks of support for STEM students alliance-wide and nationally. Project results, including evaluation recommendations, will be disseminated widely at local, regional and national meetings where the persistence, performance, advancement and careers in STEM fields.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.