This Program is no longer available at CSU until further notice
Bridge to the Doctorate at CSU
Louis Stokes Colorado Alliance for Minority Participation (CO-AMP)
applied for the Bridge to the Doctorate supplement on May 5th, 2006. LS CO-AMP
was
successful in receiving the funding for the CO-AMP Bridge to the Doctorate
(BD) Program Cohort 1 (2006 – 2008). The CO-AMP BD Cohort 1 initiative
is to build well qualified, highly competitive STEM education and research
scholars who enter the professoriate and become role models for other diverse,
underrepresented groups. The BD Cohort 1 initiative is a collaboration of 6
STEM colleges at Colorado State University.
The 6 Colleges are:
- College of Engineering
- College of Natural Sciences
- College of Agricultural Sciences
- Warner College of Natural Resources
- College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
- College of Applied Human Sciences
Funding was received from NSF to support 12 BD scholars in STEM disciplines. We created an overall Faculty Advisory Board (FAB) at CSU to serve as the oversight group and selection committee for the graduate fellowship funds distributed through the diversity programs including BD. The Faculty Advisory Board will also identify and select appropriate faculty in disciplines across campus to serve as professional mentors, complimenting the student’s academic mentors. The faculty advisor group selected 10 student fellows for the BD Cohort 1 program.
Student Benefits
The support activities that will be provided to the BD students are:
- Scholarship of $30,000 per year for 2 years plus the $10,500 per year for 2 years to cover tuition cost, health insurance, books, lab fee and other educational material.
- Seminars to enhance the academic preparations of BD1 scholars. Topics of the seminars will be selected by consensus from the scholars, faculty advisors and the BD1 PI/Director and Graduate Coordinators. Examples of seminar topics are how to: succeed in graduate school, understand the process and the importance of obtaining the doctorate degree, excel in the professoriate, influence others positively, write successful grants, how research is conceived and developed, test hypothesis, and how engineers are different from scientists.
- Mentoring workshops conducted by professional mentors. Each of the BD scholar will serve as a mentor to the LS-CO AMP undergraduate student.
- Financial management workshops to develop good fiscal habits and acquire skills in how to responsibly manage their immediate resources as graduate students.
- Faculty and peer networking lunches to support the students socially, promote Ph.D. opportunities and present their research proposals to faculty and peers.
- Opportunity to travel to national and regional conferences and present their research findings.
- They will gain leadership qualities, research enhancement experience and networking opportunities.
Who Should Apply?
Prospective graduate students whose ultimate goal is to earn a doctorate and become a professor in higher education are invited to apply for the Bridge To Doctorate fellowship at Colorado State University.This program is aimed at increasing the quality and quantity of students successfully completing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduate degree programs.
Support is provided for new graduate students who have an undergraduate degree in one of the STEM fields from a university participating in the national Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP). LSAMP supports sustained and comprehensive approaches that facilitate achievement of the long-term goal of increasing the number of students who earn doctorates in STEM fields, particularly those from populations underrepresented in STEM fields.
To see if your undergraduate college is an LSAMP institution, you may contact the Project Director or Project Manager for your state from the list of LSAMP's
For more details visit the graduate website at http://www.bridgetothedoc.colostate.edu/.
