Welcome! We are excited to share a glimpse of the impacts of the NSF Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program over the past 30 years. We invite you to view our video, ask your questions, and join the discussion!

Your presentation is quite polished. My experience is that this video promotes the LSAMP program. I understand that LSAMP is an effort to retain underrepresented students in STEM education. I am left feeling curious about what the most effective outreach effort has been. How does the LSAMP program achieve its goals? What work has been done about retention of your graduates in STEM careers post graduation? Is that within the scope of your mission statement? Over all a really nice video and a worthy cause.

This is a wonderful video about the contributions of the LSAMP program to millions of URM undergraduate, graduate and professionals in STEM across this country. I am very proud to champion the work of LSMRCE and LSAMP in this regard, and as a Program Director herald the work that my own institution, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee STEM-Inspire program--along with the WiscAMP alliance and many other LSAMP programs across the country--have done to promote scholarship, research and service among our students. Kudos to you all for a job well done for over 30 years, and prayers for many more years of support to continue to help our scholars in STEM thrive.

What a wonderful program and aim to include so many professionals across the nation! Have you considered venturing into trade based programs or vocational schools?

Congratulations on such a successful LSAMP program. We used to have our own LSAMP at Stony Brook University, but it currently is not active. Continue to do the great work you do and utilize this video as a recruitment tool!

Congratulations on a successful 30 years! Clearly this program has done important work and continues to be important as inequities persist in STEM education. I'm curious - over the history of the program - particularly in recent years - how has the approach/model evolved to reflect the growing body of research on student success, underrepresented students, inequities in STEM, etc.? Thank you for sharing this video!

Indeed, programs like these continue to be necessary for exposure, integration, identity development, belonging, persistence and thriving in STEM in a holistic manner.  I, also, agree with an earlier comment about how these programs can extend into K-12 spaces or even adult learning programs not specifically under 2-year or 4-year institution designations.  I am also curious, could you please speak to the growth you have particularly seen in the persistence of STEM scholars from 2-year institutions.  I wonder if there if programs like this see a gap between 2-year and 4-year institutions (and is closing it) in supporting those in STEM careers. 

It's always exciting to see these collective impact programs get their due after so many years of hard work! What a lovely testimony to your work. I wonder if you might speak to your goals for the next decade - how are you intending to meet the renewed challenges of a society in the wake of renewed racial reckoning and facing the ongoing threat of COVID-19?

This video was crafted behind the scenes very well with close attention to detail. I liked seeing clips from students and other people sharing how this program has helped them and showing what good it can do for other people. The background information on the program was also really nice to hear about. I would love to see more in the future!

Great video.  As part of the Engineering PLUS INCLUDES we are excited to partner with LSMRCE Toleverage the experience and strength of the LSAMP community to address the challenging task of broadening participation in engineering 

Thanks for your video. Hard to condense in 3 min the amazing impact of this great program. At UNCP we are one of those 600 participating institutions!