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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
Faculty Recruiters
Diversity Team Fellows
Meaningful Links to Career Awards, IGERTS, NIH Training Grants
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
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