Central New York to Puerto Rico CNYPR Alliance for Graduate Education

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Central New York to Puerto Rico (CNY-PR) Alliance
for Graduate Education

• Dr. Howard Johnson
• Syracuse University
• Executive Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

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CNY-PR Alliance Partners

• Syracuse University
• Cornell University
• Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• The University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

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Syracuse University

• A major research university
• Member of the elite American Association of
  Universities (AAU), which exercises significant
  influence on the U.S. higher education agenda
• Offers a wide array of doctoral and masters
  programs to its nearly 5,000 graduate students

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Syracuse UniversityMarks of Distinction

• A national leader in preparing graduate students
  for careers as professors
• Interdisciplinary study is encouraged through
• Formal, interdisciplinary graduate programs

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Syracuse UniversityMarks of Distinction

• Concurrent degrees in separate disciplines

- Two masters degrees (common)
- Masters in one discipline, Ph.D. in
another (where course requirements permit)

• J.D. (law) plus a masters
• degree

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Syracuse UniversityOutstanding Graduate Programs
Recent national rankings have placed the
following programs at SU among the nations best

• Journalism (source US News)
• Public Administration (source US News
• Geography (source National Research Council)
• Philosophy (source National Research Council)

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Syracuse UniversityOutstanding Graduate Programs
Renowned programs also in the following

• Computational Science
• Creative Writing
• Education
• Information Studies and Library Science
• Social Sciences (The Maxwell School)

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Cornell University

• Cornell University ranks eleventh among US
  universities in terms of total research and
  development expenditures, and eighteenth in
  federally financed rd expenditures. It ranked
  fourth in funds allocated by the National Science
  Foundation for programs in academic science and
  engineering in 199899 (the most-recent data
  available).

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Cornell University

• The 200102 Cornell faculty includes four Nobel
  laureates, five National Medal of Science
  winners, six Presidential Early Career Award
  winners, sixteen National Science Foundation
  CAREER grant winners, one recipient of the
  National Academy of Sciences Award for
  Initiatives in Research, one Office of Naval
  Research Young Investigator award winner, four
  Packard Foundation grant winners, two Carnegie
  Scholars, and one Keck Distinguished Young
  Scholar, among others.

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Cornell University

• The Cornell Research Foundation (CRF), a
  not-for-profit subsidiary of the university, is
  responsible for the evaluation, protection, and
  transfer-for-commercialization of inventions
  resulting from Cornell's research programs.

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Cornell University

• In 2000-01, CRF received 190 invention
  disclosures, filed more than 90 patent
  applications, and completed more than 60
  commercial license agreements. CRF also helps
  create companies to develop products of Cornell
  research. Recent start-up enterprises are working
  on microfluidic devices, novel methods of
  treating pain, and new ways of manufacturing
  computer wafers.

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Cornell University

• The New York Weill Cornell Medical Center is a
  pioneer in biomedical technology. Its
  special-treatment and research facilities include
  the Center for Reproductive Medicine, the AIDS
  Care Center, the Hypertension Center, the
  Institute of Genetic Medicine, and the Burn
  Center. The recent alliance with the Columbia
  University medical center has created one of the
  most extensive and effective health-care-provider
  networks in the nation.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• Rensselaer was established "for the purpose of
  instructing persons, who may choose to apply
  themselves, in the application of science to the
  common purposes of life.
• Rensselaer was the first degree granting
  technological university in the English-speaking
  world

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• Rensselaer educates the leaders of tomorrow for
  technologically based careers.
• We celebrate discovery, and the responsible
  application of technology, to create knowledge
  and global prosperity.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• Pulickel Ajayan, a professor of materials science
  and engineering at Rensselaer, has discovered a
  molecular-scale welding method that may be the
  first step in creating ultra-strong materials or
  tiny chip circuitry. The breakthrough
  is featured in Business Week's Developments to
  Watch.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Over the last 175 years, Rensselaer alumni have
been instrumental originators of technologies,
products and events that have changed our world

• the Apollo Project
• e-mail (including using the _at_ symbol)
• the first pocket calculator

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

• the Reach toothbrush
• baking powder
• TV
• the microprocessor
• and
• the Brooklyn Bridge

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The University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

• The Mayagüez Campus of the University of Puerto
  Rico is fully accredited by the Council of Higher
  Education of Puerto Rico and by the Middle States
  Association of Colleges and Schools.
• It is also a member of the Association of
  Hispanic-American Universities.

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The University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

• The Mayagüez Campus has been a sponsoring
  institution of Oak Ridge Associated Universities
  (ORAU) since 1966. ORAU is a private,
  not-for-profit consortium of 65 colleges and
  universities and a management and operating
  contractor for the US Department of Energy (DOE)
  with principal offices located in Oak Ridge,
  Tennessee.

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The University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

• Research and development institutes that provide
  support to research activities include
• The Center for Computing Research and Development
  (CECORD) - increases minority participation in
  graduate school and research by developing the
  research environment needed to start a Ph.D.
  program in computer engineering and computer
  science

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The University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

• The Center for Hemispheric Cooperation to
  Research and Education in Engineering and Applied
  Science (CoHemis) - offers undergraduate and
  graduate programs in engineering, business
  administration and the natural, agricultural and
  marine sciences
• The Center Research Instrumentation Laboratory
  (CRIL) - sophisticated instrumentation for
  organic and inorganic chemical analysis

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The University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez

• The Heat and Mass Transfer Research Laboratory
  (Hmtrl) - a research facility dedicated to basic
  and applied theoretical and experimental research
  in heat and mass transfer phenomena
• Laboratory for Applied Remote Sensing and Image
  Processing a multidisciplinary laboratory
  dedicated to the research and implementation of
  Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems
  (GIS), Signal and Image Processing, Emergency
  Response Systems and Global Positioning Systems
  (GPS) technologies

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Underrepresentation in Ph.D. Productivity is Real

• 56 of Current Graduate Students are Women Earn
  46 of Doctoral Degrees
• Students of Color Represent Approximately 19 of
  Graduate Enrollment, But..
• Students of Color Are the Fastest Growing Segment
  of the Graduate Community (71 Last 10 Years
  Compared to 12 for Whites)

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Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Trends

• About 43,000 Ph.D.s Awarded Annually
• About 28,000 to U.S. Citizens PRs (2/3)
• About 60 to Men
• About 12.5 (3500) to People of Color
• About 4.6 (1300) to African Americans
• About 3.4 (950) to Hispanics
• African Americans Are Only 2.2 of SMET Postdocs
  Hispanics are only .6

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National Leaders in Producing Minority Ph.D.s

• HBCUs Are About 75 of the Top 20 Undergraduate
  Institutions Graduating African Americans Who
  Later Obtain the Ph.D.
• African Americans
• Howard, Ohio State, Michigan, Wayne State,
  Columbia-Teachers College, Maryland

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National Leaders in Producing Minority Ph.D.s

• Hispanic Americans
• Texas-Austin, Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras,
  UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Texas AM
• Asian Americans
• UC-Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, USC, MIT
• Native Americans
• Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, UC-Berkeley, Wisconsin,
  Arizona

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Requirements for Increasing SMET Doctoral
Representation

• Improved Mathematics Education in K-12 and
  Undergraduate Education
• A MUST!
• Improved Advising and Mentoring on Desirability
  of Acquiring the Ph.D. (More Career Options, More
  Lifetime Income, Etc.)
• Less Encouragement of Jobs following the B.S.

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Requirements for Increasing SMET Doctoral
Representation

• Better Advising on Joint Degrees Disciplines
  Usually Unavailable to Undergraduates (e.g.,
  Pharmacology, Bioengineering, Atmospheric
  Science, Nanotechnology, etc.)

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More Strategies for Increasing SMET Doctoral
Representation

• Increased Undergraduate Research Activity
• Development of Seamless Admissions Arrangements
  with Doctoral Institutions (AGEP)
• Increased Mentoring and Technical Assistance on
  the Graduate School Selection and Application
  Process (e.g., Xavier University)
• Increased Mentoring and Technical Assistance in
  Pursuing Fellowship Opportunities (e.g., NSF
  Graduate Research Fellowships) Applications
  from HBCUs are Embarrassingly Low!

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Focus Areas

• Recruitment Retention
• Mentoring
• Research
• Teaching
• Communications Personal Development

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Take the Long-Term Approach

• Through Project SEED, 30,000 mostly
  African-American and Latino TITLE I students are
  studying high school and college algebra in 4th,
  5th, and 6th grades
• Virtually all have college potential
• They will succeed in high school algebra and
  geometry
• But they are not geared to the logistics of
  going to college (PSAT, SAT, college selection,
  financing, etc.)
• Colleges should identify high potential students
  in the elementary schools and keep a link with
  them throughout.

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The Central New York to Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
(CNY-PR) Alliance for Graduate Education
The CNY-PR alliance proposes the following
objectives to achieve its goals

• Provide inter-institutional engaging research
  experiences for undergraduate and graduate
  students
• Review and recommend innovative measures and
  guidelines for graduate admission criteria

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• Aggressively recruit and retain excellent
• minority students to the alliance
• institutions

• Provide multi-year funding package for accepted
  minority graduate students
• Expand professoriate and mentor training programs
  to alliance institutions

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• Develop and implement continuous
• assessment tools to evaluate the alliances
• objectives

• Each component of the program builds on the
  previous, creating a corridor the student moves
  through that motivates, guides, and supports from
  K-12 to Ph.D. to a successful career in academia
  or industry

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Syracuse University Initiatives
TA Program

• Three-week summer orientation program
• Professional development seminars
• English language screening and instruction
• An Outstanding TA awards program
• Consultation service
• Mid-course feedback survey

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TA Program of the Graduate School

• TA Orientation Program

- 12 days
- Approximately 300 participants

• - Three Components
• international
• national
• department programs

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TA Program of the Graduate School

• International program
• large group sessions
• small group sessions
• language assessment

• General program
• large group sessions
• small group sessions
• microteaching
• dealing with problems

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TA Program of the Graduate School

• Year-Round Programs

• Professional Development Seminars
• Mid-semester Feedback Survey
• Consultation Service
• Fall and Spring Orientation Programs (approx.
  50 participants each)
• English Language Assistance
• English 610 Oral Communications in Teaching
• English 611 Conversation Groups

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Future Professoriate Project

• Goal
• From Graduate Student to Assistant Professor

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Faculty Responsibilities

• Teaching the most advanced courses in your field
  of interest
• Doing research
• Getting financial support for your own research
• Directing graduate student research
• Getting financial support for your graduate
  students

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Faculty Responsibilities

• Advising graduate studentsacademic program
  issues
• Mentoring graduate studentslife
• Teaching your subject to students in professional
  programs
• Teaching your subject in lower-level
  undergraduate courses

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Faculty Responsibilities

• Bringing your scholarship (that is, your ability
  to identify the important questions and suggest
  ways to find answers) to bear on all of the above
• Bringing your scholarship to bear on your
  administrative and service roles as a faculty
  member

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Future Professoriate Project

• With roots dating from 1987, when the TA Program
  of the Graduate School was established at
  Syracuse University, the Future Professoriate
  Project began in 1991 with nearly one million
  dollars in start-up funding from the U.S.
  Department of Educations Fund for the
  Improvement of Postsecondary Education and The
  Pew Charitable Trusts.

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Future Professoriate Project

• More than 35 departments at Syracuse University
  have faculty members and graduate students who
  are engaged in the project.
• The Project strives to prepare graduate students
  for their teaching responsibilities as future
  members of the professoriate and to effect a
  change in the faculty culture by fostering
  recognition of the importance of teaching as a
  dimension of graduate education.

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Future Professoriate Project

• The teaching associateship, a pre-doctoral
  appointment involving an independent teaching
  experience under the guidance of a faculty
  teaching mentor, is one of three initiatives
  associated with the Project.
• A second initiative is a series of faculty
  teaching mentors seminars designed to assist
  faculty mentors in preparing graduate students
  for college teaching careers.

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Future Professoriate Project

• A third initiative is a capstone, The Certificate
  in University Teaching, which doctoral students
  earn by engaging in an independent teaching
  experience and documenting their teaching
  credentials through the preparation of a teaching
  portfolio.
• The Certificate in University Teaching is awarded
  jointly by the Graduate School and the academic
  departments upon completion of all doctoral
  degree requirements.

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Future Professoriate Project

• In 1996, Syracuse University was selected to
  participate in phase two of the Preparing Future
  Faculty initiative, which is jointly administered
  by the Council of Graduate Schools and the
  Association of American Colleges and
  Universities.

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Future Professoriate Project

• Sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts, Preparing
  Future Faculty enables Syracuse University
  faculty members and graduate students to
  collaborate with their counterparts at five area
  institutions of higher education Colgate
  University Hamilton College LeMoyne College
  Onondaga Community College and the State
  University of New York College at Oswego. The
  collaborative work provides graduate students an
  opportunity to gain a greater awareness of career
  options and a broader preparation as scholars,
  teachers and professionals.

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Preparing Future FacultyBasic Program Elements

• Increasingly independent and varied teaching
  responsibilities
• Opportunities for students to grow and develop as
  researchers
• Learning that enables students to contribute
  service to their department and institution

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Preparing Future FacultyConsiderations

• Nearly 80 of graduates with doctoral degrees
  come from 102 research universities
• Most new faculty hires are working at the
  remaining 3,200 higher education institutions in
  the United States
• The Ph.D. is a research degreeresearch is a
  necessary competence for a faculty position but
  is no longer sufficient

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Preparing Future FacultyConsiderations

• Hiring institutions are requiring competence in
  teaching and who can contribute from the outset
  to departmental and institutional initiatives
• Expectations of faculty members are changing

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Preparing Future FacultyChanging Expectations

• Students are becoming more diverse by race,
  ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, and readiness
  for college-level study
• The focus on student learning and assessment is
  becoming more widespread, making more demands on
  faculty
• New computer and communications technologies are
  transforming teaching and learning

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Preparing Future FacultyChanging Expectations

• The knowledge base is expanding with more
  combinations and among interdisciplinary programs
  
• Undergraduate curricula are stressing coherence
  and purposefulness, requiring more collaboration
  among faculty
• Scholarship is being reconsidered and now often
  includes the scholarship of discovery,
  integration, application, and teaching

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Faculty Teaching Mentors Seminars

• an interdisciplinary forum for the development of
  ideas to better prepare the future generation of
  the professoriate
• encourage collaboration among faculty in related
  disciplines to explore common approaches to
  preparing graduate students for teaching

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Faculty Teaching Mentors Seminars

• provide faculty with specific strategies and
  methodologies to establish more effective
  mentoring of graduate students for teaching
• establish a heightened presence of faculty on
  campus to whom graduate students can turn for
  guidance about teaching issues

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Other Professional Development Activities

• Departmental seminars
• University-wide events
• Professional conference presentations
• Publications
• Mentor new teaching assistants

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Mentoring

• Formal and informal
• Mentoring activities
• Critique of a videotaped class
• Meetings
• Classroom observations

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Mentoring Topics

• Teaching
• Career development
• Portfolios

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The Central New York to Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
(CNY-PR) Alliance for Graduate Education
In this age of accelerated technological
advances, increasing career specialization and
extremely competitive job opportunities, society
has a vested interest in promoting graduate and
professional education as never before.
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The Central New York to Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
(CNY-PR) Alliance for Graduate Education
The need for specialized knowledge and the
acquisition of professional credentials place
increasingly high demands on all college
graduates, yet documented evidence shows that
there exists a disparity in the opportunities for
certain populations to gain access to programs
conferring advanced degrees in science,
mathematics and engineering (SME).
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The Central New York to Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
(CNY-PR) Alliance for Graduate Education
Member institutions in the alliance coordinated
by Syracuse University with the collaboration of
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Cornell
University, and Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, are
prepared to confront the challenge of making
graduate study more available to reportedly
underrepresented populations.
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The Central New York to Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
(CNY-PR) Alliance for Graduate Education
The alliance institutions are excited about this
program, and have begun laying the groundwork.
External funding from industry is already being
sought to ensure the continuous growth of the
program after the NSF contributions have ended.
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