The Florida-Caribbean Louis Stokes Regional Center of Excellence (FL-C LSRCE) is a collaborative research-practitioner partnership between Santa Fe College and the University of the Virgin Islands to broaden participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by developing, testing and disseminating mindset intervention practices that enhance growth mindsets when encountering academic challenges.

In conjunction with the Laboratory of Intergroup Relations and the Social Mind at Columbia University and the Learning, Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh, FL-C LSRCE administrators and faculty from several Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation projects, will participate as implementers of the research to practice activities and serve as consultants to the center.

Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the NSF INCLUDES National Network in late 2018 and launched in early 2019, the Center is led by Co-Principal Investigators Dr. Stefanie Waschull, of Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida and Dr. Camille McKayle, of the University of the Virgin Islands.