About the Virginia–North Carolina Alliance

The Virginia–North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation strives for diversification of the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) workforce.  Open to all, the Alliance emphasizes increasing the number of underrepresented students earning baccalaureate degrees with an emphasis on increasing the number of underrepresented minority students in STEM disciplines and matriculating to graduate school. Each of the eleven partner institutions offers individually tailored recruitment, retention, and enhancement activities to support students such as bridge programs, stipends, symposia, tutoring, mentoring, workshops, and research experiences.

Alliance Partners