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Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate

Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate. NO LONGER A DREAM DEFERRED: Greater Minority STEM Participation Through Academic Opportunity and Institutional Change. Our History. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Lead Institution. Boston University MIT

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Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate

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  1. Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate NO LONGER A DREAM DEFERRED: Greater Minority STEM Participation Through Academic Opportunity and Institutional Change

  2. Our History University of Massachusetts Amherst Lead Institution Boston University MIT Penn State University Rutgers University Phase 1: 1999-00 Phase 2: 2005-06 University of Connecticut University of Maine University of New Hampshire University of Rhode Island University of Vermont

  3. Our Philosophy To be successful, majority institutions must partner with minority-serving institutions To be sustainable, diversity efforts must be faculty-driven and administration- supported

  4. PARTNER INSTITUTIONS • Bennett College • Jackson State University • Lincoln University • Medgar Evers College • University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez

  5. Developing Collaborations: Partner and Alliance Meetings Partner Science Days Partner Faculty and Student Support

  6. Institutional Change Takes Time and Strategic Readjustments

  7. 1999-2007 176%

  8. Implementing Best Practices in Phase 2 Institutions Got Quicker Results

  9. The Doctorate and Beyond

  10. MODEL PROGRAMS IN NEAGEP

  11. Faculty, Faculty, Faculty

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

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

  14. Summer Program at UConn Students funded by REU supplements to grants of individual PIs!

  15. Students know best!

  16. Graduate!! “by any means necessary…” Aisha Walcott, PhD Candidate, MIT Shaundra Daily, PhD Candidate, MIT Dr. Robbin Chapman, Manager of Diversity Recruiting SA+P, MIT African-American Researchers in Computing Sciences Conference July 25, 2008

  17. ACME ACCOUNTABILITY THURSDAYS

  18. What about the late-bloomers?

  19. 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

  20. Faculty Development at Partner Institutions Summer Visiting Professorships Technical Workshops Mutual Mentoring

  21. Provost Charlena Seymour: PI

  22. Visit our website: http://www.neagep.org

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