LOUIS STOKES ALLIANCE FOR MINORITY PARTICIPATION
URM STEM Bachelor’s degrees awarded within just four years, only the second LSAMP to accomplish this. Now a senior alliance, the number of STEM degrees awarded last year to URM students by GS-LSAMP institutions tri- pled over the baseline (see graph). Additionally, the total number of STEM degrees awarded to GS-LSAMP mem- bers increased 70% in Phase II (2014-2019) over Phase I (2010-2014). GS-LSAMP has received $12.5M in funding from NSF for its programming, which focuses largely on provid- ing research experiences to its undergraduate students. Research has been shown to increase both retention and success in STEM fields. Last year alone, over 225 research opportunities were funded by GS-LSAMP and countless more were available through related programs. Additional funding has been obtained as a direct result of GS-LSAMP, including a $1.1M Bridge to the Doctorate grant, which will provide 12 students with $32,000 sti- pends + tuition for the first two years of graduate school at Rutgers - Newark. In total, $28.21M in funding has been obtained for or through GS-LSAMP.
Started in 1991 and funded by the National Science Foundation, the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Par- ticipation (LSAMP) program is designed to increase the number of non-medical science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) professionals from traditionally under- represented minority (URM) groups in these fields.
Garden State-LSAMP is a collaboration between seven NJ universities and one community college. Started in Academic Year 2010, GS-LSAMP doubled the number of
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