2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

The NSF supported New York City Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NYC LSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate (BTD) at the City University of New York (CUNY) had an objective to recruit and retain recent NYC LSAMP STEM graduates into a research/academic career that leads to the completion of a Ph.D. degree at CUNY or at other doctoral granting institutions. Nine cohorts of the NYC LSAMP Scholars (110 participants) were supported at CUNY. Roughly 33 % of the NYC LSAMP participants were enrolled in the City College Grove School of Engineering. Most of the students (Cohort 1-9) have been enrolled in MS programs at Brooklyn College, City College, Hunter College, John Jay College, the College of Staten Island, Lehman College, Queens College and directly in the doctoral programs at the CUNY Graduate Center. The NYC LSAMP Cohorts at CUNY were not based at any one campus site, as the CUNY Graduate Center on inception of the program was the primary institution that grants the Doctoral degree in CUNY. Bridge to the Doctorate Scholars were engaged in a series of activities designed and implemented to ensure the transition to doctoral programs. These activities serve to create a learning community of scholars across the campuses given the fact that the participating students take courses and conduct research at different campuses. Bridge to the Doctorate Scholars are also offered the opportunity to integrate an International Research Experience into their training during their stay in the program. Program design, best practices, and operation and comparisons to other diversity programs and national data will be presented along with the career outcomes of the over 100 participants. Of the 33% in engineering (of these 97% completed the MS degree). To date over 50% of the NYC LSAMP Scholars have completed their Doctoral degrees.