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The National Science Foundation's Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP), the Virginia-North Carolina Alliance (VA-NC AMP) 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 AMP's primary goal is to double the number of underrepresented minority students earning STEM (Science, Technology, and Engineering, and Mathematics) baccalaureate degrees by 2012.

UVa StudentsThe VA-NC AMP offers activities to support underrepresented minority students during their undergraduate experience. Activities planned thus far, include: sponsorship of annual symposia; workshops and colloquia; faculty exchanges; common reading experiences; training faculty, staff, and student assistant training on multicultural education issues; and summer research experience.

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. These Alliance activities are designed to maximize utilization of available resources and produce the necessary synergy among participants in order to meet the goal of "double by 2012".
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