Strategies To Promote Diversity : The Institutionalization of Culture Change in STEM Higher Educatio

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Strategies To Promote Diversity The
Institutionalization of Culture Change in STEM
Higher Education

• Engaging Faculty and Graduate Students in
  Recruitment and Retention
• Institute for Broadening Participation Workshop
• Portland and Camp Kieve, Nobleboro, ME
• March 11-March 14, 2007
• Bernard L. Batson, Program Manager
• NSF IGERT, NSF Bridge to the Doctorate, Sloan PhD
  Programs
• University of South Florida

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Overview

• Our Program Initiatives
• IGERT/SKINS
• Bridge to the Doctorate
• Alfred P. Sloan Minority PhD Program
• Our Best Practices to Involve Faculty Students
  in Recruitment and Retention
• Summary Q/A

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Our Program Initiatives

• Integrating Graduate Research and Education
• Ongoing administrative supported diversity
  Initiatives
• (1) Integrative Graduate Education and Research
  Training (IGERT) - SKINS
• (2) FGLSAMP- Bridge to the Doctorate
• (3) Alfred P. Sloan Foundations Minority PhD
  Program

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IGERT- Sensory Knowledge based Information
Sciences (SKINS)

• Investigate the human skin as a smart biological
  interface by coupling advances in Biomedicine,
  Microsystems, Nanotechnology, and Informational
  Processing.
• USF IGERT Sensory Knowledge -based Interface
  (SKINS) initiated in Fall 2003.
• Appointed 34 IGERT PhD trainees (13 URMs, 14
  women, 2 disabled) in the Colleges of
  Engineering, Arts Sciences, Medicine.,
  University of Cincinnati, and the University of
  Central of Florida.

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Florida Georgia Louis Strokes Alliance for
Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate
Project (FGLSAMP- BD)

• AIMS AND GOALS
• Extension of the LSAMP undergraduate program to
  facilitate progression of LSAMP scholars to
  Ph.D.
• 30K per stipend up to 2 years, full
  tuition/fees, student health insurance.
• We will recruit 56 (36 NSF, 20 USF) new minority
  graduate students to USF by Summer 2007.

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Alfred P. Sloan Minority PhD Program

• One time allocation of enhanced fellowship funds
  (26K to 38K) to be leveraged with other support
  (TA, RA, etc.).
• USF is the only institution able to award Sloan
  fellowships in all Engineering Ph.D. programs,
  and is one of only three with a program in Marine
  Sciences.
• Since January 2005, over 20 Sloan
  fellows have been appointed collectively within
  separate Sloan programs at the Colleges of
  Engineering and Marine Science.

Alfred P. Sloan Fellow Joniqua Howard
Ph.D. student,
Environmental Engineering
Hampton University, 2004
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• Involving Faculty into Recruitment

• Provide faculty/depts. with a buy-in by
  selling the concept that Diversity and Research
  are inexorably linked .
• Make annual presentations to departments and meet
  with junior faculty.
• Co-sponsor research seminars with participating
  departments.
• Work with faculty in formulating the
  diversity/educational components of their
  proposals (CAREER), including the identification
  of potential partners at minority-serving
  institutions and community college.

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Potential Partners at Minority Serving
Institutions

• HBCU-UP (NSF)
• LSAMP (NSF)
• MARCU-U STAR (NIGMS/NIH)
• MCNAIR (Department of Education)

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2. Graduate Student Involvement
Campus Visitations
Undergraduate Research Conferences
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3. Involving Faculty into Retention

• Annual Faculty Orientation meetings
• Personal Development Plan for Each Trainee/Fellow
• Semester and Annual Progress Reports
• Annual symposium where attendance of faculty
  mentor and mentee is required. Recognize
  faculty advisors and give two annual awards.

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4. Involving Graduate Students into Retention

• Make every effort to recruit/appoint trainees
  with an interest in outreach/retention.
• Assign Graduate Student Mentors for 1st Year
  Trainees/Fellows.
• Graduate Students serve as facilitators of
  personal development workshops
• IGERT/BD trainees are required to develop a
  teaching/mentoring plan prior to their 2nd year
  of NSF funding.
• 21st Century Leadership Certificate Program

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Outcomes

• Within the past 2 years, 5 of our faculty have
  received CAREER
• Since Fall 2003, 95 fellowships appointed, 72
  awarded to diverse students. Contributed to the
  significant increase in the diversity of USF
  graduate enrollment. During AY 2005-2006, we
  sponsored 24 graduate visitations for minority
  students, 20 applications, 16 enrolled by Fall
  2006 ( a yield rate of 67).
• Established collaborative relationships with at
  8-10 minority-serving institutions that are
  feeder schools for graduate programs at USF.
• Facilitated national awards to minority/women
  graduate students at USF
• 10 McKnight 1 NASA (Harriett
  Jenkins)
• 1 GEM PhD 7 NSF (GRF, GRS, EAPSI)
  1 Ford Foundation
  1 UNCF/MERCK Dissertation
• 2 Dept. of Homeland Security
  2 NIH

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What Works?

• Targeted Minority Recruitment (Focus on diverse
  programs, conferences, and schools that match
  your departments research interests)
• Establish and Maintain Key Partnerships with
  Minority-Serving Institutions
• Provide Faculty Departments with A Buy- in
  for their involvement in Recruitment/Retention
• Involve Graduate Students in the Recruitment and
  Retention
• No magic bullets for success!!!!

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IGERT, BD, SLOAN Programs Summary

• FG-LSAMP Bridge to Doctorate II,III,IV
• Focused on training students at the intersection
  of marine science, physical sciences and
  engineering to explore cutting-edge design and
  development of marine, environmental, biological,
  chemical biomedical sensor technologies.
• Increase the diversity of the students
  graduating in the science, technology,
  engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines.
• 27 Female, 27 Male (54 Minority fellows),( EE -
  7,Chem - 3,ME - 3,Civil- 3, CSE - 1,IE - 2,BME -
  5, Marine Science - 27). Retention into PhD
  program after MS completion
• Team Building and Interdisciplinary Training
  through 2 specially designed courses, Emphasis
  on Professional Development and Industry Relevant
  Soft-skills

• SLOAN
• Colleges of Engineering and Marine Science
  becoming a certified site for fellows of the
  Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Minority PhD program
  to pursue their PhD
• USF - the only University to offer Sloan
  fellowships in all Engineering PhD granting
  programs
• 4 Female, 4 Male (8 Minority)
• (EE - 3, ME - 1,ChE - 2,
• Civil - 1, CSE - 1) only supported by Sloan 10
  fellowship students receive Sloan
• Mentors span across all thrust areas- Fellows
  work with them

• NSF IGERT
• Investigate the dynamic, information rich,
  molecular structure of the ultimate smart
  interface human skin - by coupling advances in
  biology, microsys., nanotechnology and
  information technology to collect data from it
• 50 Mentors from 3 continents
• 14 Female, 16 Male (9 Minority Fellows) Across
  Various Disciplines
• (EE - 6,BME - 4,CE - 4,CSE - 2,ME - 1,
• Civil - 1,Phy - 5,Chem - 3,Patho - 1,
  Pharmocology - 1,UCF - 1 and UC- 1)
• Students trained across domains and co-advised
  nationally internationally
• 4 New Interdisciplinary Courses,
  Cross-disciplinary research professional
  development seminars

Recruitment in Progress
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