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The National Science Foundation's Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP), the Virginia-North Carolina Alliance (VA-NC Alliance) is led by the University of Virginia and includes the following partners: Bennett College for Women, Elizabeth City State University, George Mason University, Johnson C. Smith University, St. Augustine's College, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Virginia Tech. Each of the eight institutions offer individually tailored recruitment, retention, and enhancement activities to support their students. The VA-NC Alliance's primary goal is to increase the number of students earning STEM (Science, Technology, and Engineering, and Mathematics) baccalaureate degrees by 2012.

The VA-NC Alliance offers activities to support students during their undergraduate experience including: annual symposia; tutoring, bridge programs, workshops and colloquia; faculty exchanges; common reading experiences; and summer research experiences.  These Alliance activities are designed to maximize utilization of available resources and produce the necessary synergy among participants in order to meet the Alliance's goal.

NSF-LSAMP promotes the formation of alliances among leaders throughout academia, government, industry, and other organizations. Alliance-level activities are designed to facilitate communication and interaction among Alliance members and across disciplines, thus fostering a sense of community among Alliance members; strengthening the Alliance structure; and providing students and faculty opportunities to build productive, academic, and professional networks.

 

 

 
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