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Enhancing Graduate Student Recruitment and Retention at MIT: Successes and Strategies

This overview presents MIT's innovative recruitment and retention strategies for graduate students, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches and decentralized programs across various departments. Notably, the MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) offers intensive summer research experiences, financial support, and active mentoring to strengthen the graduate community. The establishment of the Recruitment and Retention Council, alongside new programs and community fellows, highlights MIT's commitment to diversity and student success. Explore how these initiatives have improved participation and achievements among minority graduate students.

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Enhancing Graduate Student Recruitment and Retention at MIT: Successes and Strategies

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  1. Overview • MIT • Recruitment and retention programs • Successes UPRM NEA Day 2008

  2. About MIT • 11,000 students • 6,100 graduate students • ~5% minority graduate students • Very decentralized (5 Schools; over 30 departments and programs) • Extremely interdisciplinary • Active graduate student body UPRM NEA Day 2008

  3. What are we doing… • 2004 Faculty resolution • Varying work at the department level • Retention • Path of Professorship • ACME • Recruitment • MSRP • CONVERGE UPRM NEA Day 2008

  4. Overview Graduate Student Group Research Support Network Web-based and organic Multi-disciplinary Supported by MIT Structure Accountability Thursday ACME Lecture Series Practice Talks Writing and Study sessions Undergraduate mentoring ACME UPRM NEA Day 2008

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  6. Success Stories UPRM NEA Day 2008

  7. Increasing research experiences… • MIT Summer Research Program (MSRP) • 10 week research INTENSIVE summer program • Travel and housing covered by the program • Weekly stipend provided • Weekly faculty seminars http://web.mit.edu/gso/msrp UPRM NEA Day 2008

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  9. MSRP Pipeline 86-07 UPRM NEA Day 2008

  10. What are we up to??? • Increased Institute buy-in • New MSRP Coordinator (Monica Orta) • Financial support for MSRP from 5 Schools • Departments getting more involved with R&R • Graduate Community Fellows • Based on Harvard, Yale programs • Currently 5 (Women, International Students, Community, 2 Diversity); will likely increase to 20 • Recruitment and Retention Council • Planning Committee: Faculty from each of the 5 Schools and Graduate Student Deans • Full Committee: Representatives from each unit UPRM NEA Day 2008

  11. Successes • We continue to share students • UMass applying Path of Professorship model • NEA Graduate now an MIT post-doc!! • Sheekelah Baker-Yeboah (URI) UPRM NEA Day 2008

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