Map of The National Science Foundation/Alliances for Minority
Participation)
The Louis Stokes
Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program is a
multi-disciplinary, comprehensive, undergraduate program designed to
increase substantially the quantity and quality of participating
students receiving baccalaureate degrees in mathematics,
engineering, and technology (SMET). LSAMP facilitates achievement of
the long-term goal of increasing the number of students who earn
doctorates in SMET fields, especially those who choose to take
faculty positions on college and university campuses.
The LSAMP program encourages the formation of coalitions among
leaders throughout academia, government, industry, and other
organizations. The program will make a significant positive impact
on student participation in SMET fields over the next decade. The
LSAMP program supports undergraduate systemic reform in alliances
that include partners from both two- and four-year higher education
institutions, businesses and industries, national research
laboratories, local, state, and Federal agencies. In addition to
this principal focus, LSAMP projects also give consideration to the
critical transition points in SMET education (i.e., high
school-to-college; two-year to four-year college; undergraduate
study; and graduate study-to-faculty career.)
Summary of Minority Health Programs Sponsored by Congressman
Louis Stokes
For a period of 30 years, Congressman Stokes has lead pioneering
efforts for minority health; the education of minority health
professionals, minority science and engineering professionals at the
associate, undergraduate and graduate degree levels; the address of
science and engineering infrastructure for research and education at
HBCUs; and K-12 mathematics and science education programs focusing
on state, urban and rural school districts with significant minority
enrollments."
Dr. Luther Williams, Assistant Director, LSAMP
Some of the programs for which Congressman Stokes as the architect
and sustained sponsor and advocate are listed below:
§ 1972 Minority
Biomedical Support (MBRS) Program, NIH, National Institutes of
Health (NIH)
§ 1973
Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Program, NIH
§ 1985 Research Centers of Excellence in Minority Institutions
focused on the biomedical sciences, NIH
§ 1989 Creation of the
Office of Minority Health and Research, NIH
§ 1989 Centers of
Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST), National
Science Foundation (NSF)
§ 1991 Alliance for
Minority Participation (AMP) Program, NSF
§ 1993 K-12 Summer Science Camps Program, NSF
§ 1993 Urban Systemic Initiatives Program (USI), NSF
§ 1993 Research Centers on Violence, NSF
§ 1997 (Minority) Health Professionals Training Act, NIH
§ 1998
Minority Graduate Education Program (MGE), NSF
§ 1999 AMP Program re-named the
Louis Stokes AMP
Program
