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An NSF-Sponsored Collaborative Effort of SBE Programs at:Stanford University
Texas A&M UniversityUniversity of Southern California
University of Texas at Austin
EDGE SBE Fellows Program:Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
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Overview EDGE SBE
Our collaborative project alliance has three goals: 1) To increase the enrollment, retention, and
successful graduation of under-represented minority students in the graduate programs of the SBE sciences at our institutions;
2) To help create long-term institutional change focused on improving graduate program diversity in the SBE sciences on each of our campuses; and
3) To create a network of universities in the southwest region of the United States that share the best practices in this area.
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Alliance Activities to Date
• Diversity directors already hired from this grant on three of our campuses; the other campus has a new search underway.
• Diversity Directors will serve as a program coordinator, mentor for students, and key resource person for the SBE sciences on each campus.
• Collaboration and sharing of best practices across the four campuses will be an important part of this effort.
1) Hire a Ph.D.-level Diversity Director – either ½ time or full time – on each of our campuses who is dedicated to achieving EDGE-SBE goals.
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Alliance Activities to Date2) Work with key admissions personnel in SBE
departments on each of our campuses to improve the diversity of incoming graduate student cohorts.
• Meet with key administrators and faculty to make graduate student diversity an issue of focus.
• Work with admissions committees in key departments to more effectively examine minority student applications.
• Work with departments to provide “add-on” funding to the basic financial packages for minority graduate students at each institution.
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Alliance Activities to Date
3) Improve recruiting efforts of minority students for our SBE graduate programs.
• Attend key recruiting fairs, such as the California Diversity Forum, as a coordinated multi-campus effort.
• Establish better working relationships with feeder campuses, particularly through travel by the SBE Diversity Director on each campus.
• Create a collaborative brochure to publicize our programs and efforts. (Website to come).
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Alliance Activities to Date4) Improve the retention and successful
completion of minority graduate students in the SBE sciences on each of our campuses.
• Provide modest funding to help fill in some of the support gaps that students often face.
• Utilize the talents of the SBE Diversity Director to help provide a contact person and mentor on each campus.
• Host a regular 4-campus conference for our EDGE-SBE Fellows to provide a network of fellows across campuses.
• Host other events for EDGE-SBE Fellows, such as professional workshops and guest speakers to build a stronger community of SBE minority graduate students on each campus.
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Alliance Activities to Date
5) Work together on a frequent basis to share best practices and discuss program goals, objectives, successes, and challenges across campuses.
• Create and use a program list-serve.• Hold monthly conference calls.• Meet/plan at other NSF conferences such as this.• Meet at academic conferences (e.g., ASA) to
discuss progress/ideas/issues, etc…
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Successes to Dateat Stanford University
• Hired EDGE-SBE Diversity Director in November 2005.
• Established an email account for the project.
• Met with representatives of targeted departments, who served on their departmental admissions committees and advocated for selection of SBE Fellows.
• Recruiting efforts implemented in this round of admissions in our three targeted disciplines.
• Collaborating with Stanford Multicultural Student Services Office to develop mentoring and professional development programs.
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Successes to Dateat Texas A&M University
• Building on past connections with predominantly African American and Latino institutions in Texas through previous NSF REU summer institutes.
• Great success recruiting graduate students of color in 3 key depts (n=19) who will be joining TAMU graduate programs in Fall 2006, including 6 EDGE-SBE students.
• Ongoing success in the representation of students of color currently in the TAMU SBE graduate programs (18%-34%).
• TAMU Diversity Fellowships have also been instrumental in recruiting students of color with the EDGE-SBE Fellowships providing supplementary support.
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Successes to Dateat the University of Texasat Austin
• Two students are of particular note: one entering in sociology, the other in anthropology.
• Institutional commitments has been substantial– Matching funds for full-time SBE diversity program
coordinator – $30K per year in matching fellowship funds– Waive indirect costs on NSF grant
• 6 NSF-supported SBE under-represented minority students will enter the Ph.D. programs for fall 06.
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Successes to Date at the University of Southern California
• Project mission statement with goals and proposed activities drafted.
• Faculty Advisory Committee formed and met twice. • 5-year admissions and enrollment data report drafted for
use in focusing efforts. • Dedicated project email account established • Hosted California Diversity FORUM in April 2005
• Diversity director hired in January 2006.
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• The grant began too far into the year for us to get our full range of activities in place before the peak of the 06-07 recruiting season.
• Diversity Director searches have taken a long time on two campuses.
• Changing institutional culture is a long-term commitment.• Some of the financial packages offered by our
competitor schools (including some of those here!) are SUBSTANTIAL.
Challenges so far EDGE SBE
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University of Texas at Austin Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert Hummer, Professor of Sociology
Co-Principal Investigator: Dr. Darlene Grant, Associate Dean of the Graduate SchoolSBE Diversity Program Coordinator: Dr. Joe LottProgram Contact: [email protected]
University of Southern CaliforniaPrincipal Investigator: Dr. Jean Morrison, Associate Vice-Provost for Graduate Programs
SBE Diversity Director: Dr. Dean CampbellProgram Contact: [email protected]
Texas A&M University Principal Investigator: Dr. Rogelio Saenz, Professor of Sociology
SBE Diversity Director: to be namedProgram Contact: [email protected]
Stanford University Principal Investigator: Dr. Karen Cook, Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology
SBE Diversity Director: Kyra Greene, Department of SociologyProgram Contact: [email protected]
Principal Investigators, Co-Principal Investigators, Diversity Directors, and Contact Information for Each Participating University: