This program is no longer available at CSU until further notice.

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,see list of LSAMP's

*"New" graduate students are those who have not started graduate studies in the same field at any university.

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). A renewal was granted for 2007-2009. The BD 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 initiative is a collaboration of 6 STEM colleges at Colorado State University.
The 6 Colleges are:

1. College of Engineering
2. College of Natural Sciences
3. College of Agricultural Sciences
4. Warner College of Natural Resources
5. College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
6. College of Applied Human Sciences

For the list of eligible STEM graduate programs at CSU, click here List. Funding comes from NSF to support 12 BD scholars in STEM disciplines each year. 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 Graduate Center for Diversity and Access including BD.

Student Benefits

The support activities that will be provided to the BD students are:

1. 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.
2. Seminars to enhance the academic preparations of BD scholars. Topics of the seminars will be selected by consensus from the scholars, faculty advisors and the BD Director and Faculty Advisory Board. 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.
3. Mentoring workshops conducted by peers and professional mentors.
4. Faculty and peer networking events to support the students socially, promote Ph.D. opportunities and present their research proposals to faculty and peers.
5. Opportunity to travel to national and regional conferences and present their research findings.
6. They will gain leadership qualities, research enhancement experience and networking opportunities.

Students who apply for the BD fellowship are eligible for a waiver of the CSU Graduate School application fee. To apply, fill out the attached form.