North Star STEM Alliance

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• State of Minnesota
• Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation
• National Science Foundation

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• Augsburg
• Gustavus Adolphus
• St Olaf
• Macalester
• Carlton

• UM Twin Cities
• UM Duluth
• UM Morris

• Fond du Lac
• Metropolitan State
• MCTC
• ARCC
• NHCC
• Century College
• St Cloud State
• Minnesota State University, Mankato

• SMM
• MHTA

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• Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation
  (LSAMP)
• The LSAMP program supports sustained and
  comprehensive
• approaches to broadening participation in
  science, technology,
• engineering, and mathematicsSTEM at the
  baccalaureate level.
• These approaches facilitate the production of
  students who are well
• prepared in STEM and motivated to pursue graduate
  education.

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• Particular emphasis is placed on supporting
  groups that historically
• have been underrepresented in STEM African
  Americans, Alaskan
• Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans and
  Native Pacific
• Islanders.

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• Alliances are expected to involve some
  combination of 2-and 4
• year higher education institutions businesses
  and industry
• national research laboratories and local, state
  and Federal
• agencies.
• (NSF Program Solicitation NSF 06-552)

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• LSAMP is one of three programs that form the
  Alliances for Broadening Participation (ABP) in
  STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)
• ABP PROGRAMS
• LSAMP LSAMP focuses on broadening participation
  in STEM disciplines at the baccalaureate level
  and has four phases.
• AGEP Alliances for Graduate Education and the
  Professoriate are mandated to increase the number
  of underrepresented minority students (URM)
  earning STEM doctoral degrees and entering the
  professorate in STEM disciplines.
• BD - Bridge to the Doctorate supplements support
  initial graduate bridge activity at LSAMP
  Alliance institutions in Phase III and includes
  graduate financial support for 12 LSAMP students
  for two years up to 40,500 per student.

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• Benefits to Alliance Institutions
• LSAMP designated students at Alliance
  institutions connect to a statewide pyschosocial
  support network/community of Alliance URM STEM
  peers.
• LSAMP designated students at Alliance
  institutions gain access to the national
  network/community of LSAMP involved STEM faculty
  and URM STEM peers throughout 37 LSAMPs across
  the country.
• LSAMP designated students on Alliance campuses
  have increased opportunities for access to
  research mentors and research experiences
  through Alliance funded undergraduate research
  supplements.
• In the future, LSAMP designated students on
  Alliance campuses will be eligible to compete for
  Bridges to the Doctorate graduate financial
  support.

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• Benefits to Alliance Institutions (continued)
• LSAMP designated institutions gain access to a
  network of URM future faculty in STEM disciplines
  through the national network of 18 Bridges to the
  Doctorate sites enrolling over 500 LSAMP students
  in STEM graduate studies.
• Faculty engaged with LSAMP curricular and student
  support activities gain a set of best practices
  for academic enrichment and student support to
  apply to the general student population.
• LSAMP designated students at Alliance
  institutions gain increased access to
  professional development activities and
  professional mentoring through Alliance corporate
  members.
• LSAMP designated institutions gain the branding
  of being an LSAMP member as a tool for recruiting
  URMs to their STEM disciplines.

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• Objectives
• MNLSAMP objectives are premised on two basic
  components that will allow the attainment of the
  goal of increasing our graduation numbers
• recruitment
• retention to graduation
• Due to degree production requiring 4-5 years for
  high school recruits and 2-3 years for transfer
  recruits, MNLSAMP must focus heavily on
  increasing retention to graduation to meet its
  goal of doubling degrees earned in 5 years.

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North Star STEM Alliance Projected STEM Degree
Production

• 2005 2007 2008 2009 2010
  2011
• (Baseline)
• MNLSAMP STEM degrees 136 136 136 136 136 136
• baseline maintenance
• Projected 5 year average additional 35 35
  35 35 35
• degrees per year
• 2005 STEM Degrees 136
• 2007 STEM Degrees 171
• 2008 STEM Degrees 206
• 2009 STEM Degrees 241
• 2010 STEM Degrees 276
• 2011 STEM Degrees 311

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North Star STEM Alliance Projected STEM Degree
Production
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35/16
2.1875
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35 degrees/16 schools
2.1875/school
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National Science Foundation Cooperative Agreement
2.45 million over 5 years 490,00/yr
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Objectives of the MNLSAMP Program Objective 1-
Increase the level of interest in STEM careers by
URM secondary school students and postsecondary
non-STEM major students who demonstrate or
express a STEM interest.
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Objectives of the MNLSAMP Program Objective 2-
Increase the number of students in the targeted
population completing a college preparatory/STEM
preparatory high school program.
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Objectives of the MNLSAMP Program Objective 3-
Increase the number of high school seniors of the
targeted population enrolling in Alliance
pre-college STEM and STEM baccalaureate degree
programs. .
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Objectives of the MNLSAMP Program Objective 4-
Increase the number of students from the targeted
population completing the associates degree and
transferring to the 4-year alliance schools.
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Objectives of the MNLSAMP Program Objective 5-
Increase the number of students from the targeted
population persisting to the STEM baccalaureate.
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Sponsored activities and Alliance funded
activities
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• Higher education sponsored activities
• Research experiences
• Faculty mentoring
• Special lectures series
• Departmental seminars
• Science Museum of Minnesota and Higher Ed
  partnerships

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• MHTA sponsored activities
• Networking activities at MHTA member companies
• Identifying speakers for career awareness
  activities
• Inviting students to be guests at MHTA events,
  e.g. MHTA Member only Networking Events, the
  Spring Conference
• Promote internships through traditional MHTA
  marketing
• Employee shadowing

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Alliance funded activities
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Summer Bridge Programs 190,000
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Peer-to-peer Instructors 80,000

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Alliance-wide Networking Events 30,000
Nobel lectures at Gustavus
Adolphus Different activities at
different colleges Science Museum
host events
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Small Grants Program 50,000 Competitive
awarding of small grants ranging from
5,000-15,000
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Administration 110,000 Coordination Communic
ation Evaluation
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Curriculum Development 60,000 Curriculum
Conference Summer Bridge Curriculum Seminar
Development
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• Management
• P.I from the lead institution UM, E. Thomas
  Sullivan, Provost
• co-PI and Project Director, Samuel L. Moore,
  Director of IT APEXES
• Governing Board Provost or equivalent from each
  higher education member plus Presidents from
  Science Museum and MHTA
• Alliance Steering Committee - Institutional Site
  Coordinator from each higher education partner
  plus representative from SMM and MHTA
• Institutional Advisory Committees - STEM
  faculty, multicultural affairs professionals,
  admissions professionals, student services
  professionals
• Alliance Advisory Committee - UM Institutional
  Advisory Committees
• Student Institutional Advisory Committees -
  AISES, NOBChe, NSBE,SHPE

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• State of Minnesota
• Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation
• National Science Foundation