NO LONGER A DREAM DEFERRED: Greater Minority STEM Participation Through Academic Opportunity and Institutional Change

Boston UniversityMITPenn State UniversityRutgers University

Phase 1: 1999-00

University of Massachusetts AmherstLead Institution

Our History

Phase 2: 2005-06 University of ConnecticutUniversity of MaineUniversity of New HampshireUniversity of Rhode IslandUniversity of Vermont

To be sustainable, diversity efforts must be faculty-driven and administration-

supported

Our Philosophy

To be successful, majority institutions must partner with minority-servinginstitutions

•Bennett College

•Jackson State University

•Lincoln University

•Medgar Evers College

•University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez

PARTNER INSTITUTIONS

Developing Collaborations:

Partner and Alliance Meetings

Partner Science Days

Partner Faculty and Student Support

Institutional Change Takes Time and Strategic Readjustments

1999-2007176%

Implementing Best Practices in Phase 2 Institutions Got Quicker Results

The Doctorate and Beyond

MODEL PROGRAMS IN NEAGEP

Faculty, Faculty, Faculty

Faculty Recruiters

Diversity Team Fellows

Meaningful Links to Career Awards, IGERTS, NIH Training Grants

We all have summer research programs for AGEP students, but…

Summer Program at UConnStudents funded by REU supplements to grants of

individual PIs!

Students know best!

Graduate!! “by any means necessary…”

Aisha Walcott, PhD Candidate, MITShaundra Daily, PhD Candidate, MITDr. Robbin Chapman, Manager of Diversity Recruiting SA+P, MIT

African-American Researchers in Computing Sciences ConferenceJuly 25, 2008

What about the late-bloomers?

UMass NEAGEP Internship Program

Accept students who received baccalaureate degrees within past 36 months

If students want to stay and their faculty mentors recommend them, they become Interns

Paid graduate-level stipend, take graduate courses and work in a laboratory for a year

Faculty Development at Partner Institutions

Summer Visiting Professorships

Technical Workshops

Mutual Mentoring

Provost Charlena Seymour: PI

http://www.neagep.org

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