Louis Stokes Renewal STEM Pathways and Research Alliance:Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities Advancing Institutionalization for STEM Leadership Expansion (WAESO-AISLE)

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，以使STEM劳动力多样化。特别强调通过创新的、基于证据的招聘和保留战略和相关的教育经验来转变本科STEM教育，以支持在STEM学科中代表性不足的人群：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的学生，这些学生非常合格，并有动力在STEM继续研究生教育或职业生涯。为了保持全球竞争力，它必须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。西部扩大学生机会联盟(WAESO)：推进STEM领导力扩展的制度化(AILEL)Louis Stokes少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)计划成立于1991年，旨在满足对更多样化和更熟练的技术劳动力的需求。这种需求仍然存在，在亚利桑那州、科罗拉多州和犹他州尤为迫切。这七所大学-亚利桑那州立大学、杨百翰大学、大峡谷大学、里吉斯大学、亚利桑那大学、犹他大学、犹他州山谷大学，以及六所社区学院的合作者-钱德勒·吉尔伯特社区学院、埃斯特雷拉山区社区学院、盖威社区学院、格伦代尔社区学院、凤凰城社区学院和南山社区学院组成了联盟。该联盟的目标是建立可在全国范围内复制的新的合作伙伴关系和参与模式，以进一步提高未被充分代表的STEM人群的参与率、留存率和毕业率，并通过激活社会科学研究扩大参与来促进研究中的联系和合作。联盟的知识生成研究项目将促进研究、科学技能的发展和交流，同时激活多背景理论的社会科学结构的力量，进一步促进STEM的多样性和每个学生和教师的长期成功。这一框架将为学生、教师和合作伙伴大学提供更多的合作机会，同时帮助WAESO走廊项目以一种可以在美国其他地区复制LSAMP项目的方式，进一步将拟议的努力制度化。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 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 populations 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.For the United States (U.S.) to remain globally competitive, it must tap into all its citizens' talent and provide exceptional educational preparedness in STEM areas that underpin the knowledge-based economy. The Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities (WAESO): Advancing Institutionalization for STEM Leadership Expansion (AISLE) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program was established in 1991 in response to the need for a more diverse and skilled technical workforce. That need still exists and is particularly acute in the States of Arizona, Colorado, and Utah. The seven universities-Arizona State University, Brigham Young University, Grand Canyon University, Regis University, University of Arizona, University of Utah, Utah Valley University, and six community college collaborators- Chandler Gilbert Community College, Estrella Mountain Community College, Gateway Community College, Glendale Community College, Phoenix Community College, and South Mountain Community College make up the Alliance. The goal of the Alliance is to establish new partnerships and modes of engagement that can be replicated nationally to further increase the participation, retention, and graduation of underrepresented STEM populations and promote connections and collaboration in research through the activation of social science research broadens participation.The Alliances' knowledge-generating research project will promote research, development of scientific skills, and communication while activating the power of the social science construct of Multicontext Theory and further promoting diversity in STEM and longer-term success for each student and faculty participant. This framework will enable expanded collaborative opportunities for students, faculty, and partner universities while aiding the WAESO AISLE project in further institutionalizing the proposed efforts in a way that could be replicated in other regions of the U.S. with other LSAMP programs.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.