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MGE@ MSA
Phase II - Year One
STC Broadening Participation Workshop
Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce
March 21 – 23, 2007
Albert L. McHenry, Ph.D.
Director AGEP
Arizona State University
From Phase II RFP
• Abstract
The Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)
program is intended to significantly increase the number of domestic
students receiving doctoral degrees in the sciences, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Emphasis is on the population groups that are underrepresented in these
fields:
(i.e., African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians,
Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders).
AGEP is particularly interested in increasing the number of persons from
these groups who successfully enter the professoriate in these
disciplines.
MGE@MSA Phase II List of
Partners
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The institutions participating in our alliance for MGE@MSA (More Graduate
Education at Mountain States Alliance) AGEP Phase II (2005-2010) are:
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Arizona State University (lead)
University of New Mexico
University of Arizona
University of Utah
Utah State University
Brigham Young University
University of Nevada, Reno
University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The National Picture
Attrition of Underrepresented Minorities in Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Science (excluding Social Sciences) Between Receipt of
Baccalaureate Degree and Receipt of the Master’s Degree and Between
Receipt of Master’s Degree and Receipt of Doctoral Degree
% of Total
Undergraduate
STEM Degrees
% of Total
Masters
STEM Degrees
% of Total
Doctoral
STEM
Ethnicity
Degrees
African American
6.75%
3.14%
2.02%
Hispanic American
6.20%
3.02%
3.43%
Native American
0.60%
0.29%
0.22%
Sources: Science & Engineering Indicators—2004, Appendix Tables 2-23,
2-25, & 2-27.
National Trends
Percentage of Underrepresented Minorities in Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Science (excluding Social Sciences) Employed as Postdoctoral Researchers or Full-time Faculty
% of Total
% of Total
Post-doctoral
Full-time
Ethnicity
Researchers
Faculty
African American
2.86%
3.15%
Hispanic American
3.43%
3.15%
Native American
0.00%
0.37%
Sources: Science & Engineering Indicators—2004, Appendix Table 5-24.
Challenges Identified
 Making students fully aware of and fully prepared to meet the
opportunities and challenges of academic careers.
 Providing personal assistance with the recruitment and placement
of underrepresented minority STEM Ph.D. graduates into
appropriate post-doctoral appointments.
 Ensuring that each underrepresented minority STEM Postdoctoral researcher has a well-trained and motivated career
mentor who help him or her use their Post-doctoral experience to
most effectively prepare for a successful faculty career.
 Providing personal assistance with the recruitment and placement
of underrepresented minority STEM Post-doctoral researchers
into appropriate faculty appointments.
 Ensuring that each underrepresented minority STEM junior
faculty member has a well-trained and motivated career mentor
who will help him or her to be expeditiously and highly
proficiently productive as faculty researcher, as well as teacher
and public servant, leading to the successful attainment of tenure.
The Solution
• Recruitment
• Retention
• Expeditious Graduation
• Placement in Post-Doctoral Positions
• Mentoring of Post-Doc Scholar
• Transition to Faculty Position
• Mentoring of Junior Faculty
Recruitment
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A consolidated graduate student application form which the participating graduate schools
accept for the purpose of full admission or pre-admission. Students applying to several
graduate schools save enormous amounts of time and effort through this service.
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Application fee waivers for students applying to most participating Graduate Schools.
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A centralized credentials service that permits students to apply to several graduate schools
simultaneously without having to submit more than one application, one transcript for each
undergraduate institution attended, and one set of recommendation letters.
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A concerted effort to obtain the necessary financial aid from the participating graduate
schools or third parties such as government agencies (In our most recent year, over 85% of
our students received financial aid, most commonly fellowships or assistantships with
tuition scholarships).
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A toll-free 1-800 telephone line through which we provide intensive, in-depth support and
consultation for the student with our professional advisors at every step of the admissions
process and as often as the student requires.
Retention
• Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Institutes
Provide faculty mentors with the resources and the skills in their
specific disciplines to function as truly effective mentors of
minority graduate students. Each institute is led by nationally
recognized science and engineering faculty who have a track
record of successfully mentoring and graduating minority
doctoral students. These are now available on DVD-ROM.
Expeditious Graduation
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Faculty Documentation of Student Progress
Provides students with guidance on how they should be progressing in
order to meet the graduate degree requirements, not in a nominal
sense, but genuinely calibrated to the research expectations of the
sponsoring department. Students will report on their progress in all
graduate components and faculty will review these reports before they
submit them. Students will compile weekly reports that will provide the
basis for faculty review and documentation and will submit copies to
WAESO at the end of each semester
Protegeé Peer Network
Facilitates and encourages peer networking and peer advising between
and among beginning, intermediate, and advanced graduate students
in order to help the students, especially beginning students, progress
effectively and expeditiously towards degree completion.
Placement in
Post-Doctoral Positions
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Travel Support
MGE@MSA provides travel support for our doctoral graduates to seek post
doctoral research employment in universities and government agencies. We do
not provide similar support for private corporate employment.
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Partial Salary and Benefits Support for Postdoctoral Research Experiences
MGE@MSA Co-Project Directors and staff work with individual MGE@MSA
underrepresented minority doctoral graduates to help arrange for them
appropriate postdoctoral research experiences of from one to three years that
may be cost-shared between MGE@MSA and an appropriate university or
government laboratory.
Mentoring of Postdoctoral
Researchers
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Faculty Underrepresented Minority STEM Post-doctoral Researcher Mentoring
Institutes
These institutes feature presidential mentors and other highly successful
faculty mentors of postdoctoral researchers as well as current and former
MGE@MSA underrepresented minority post-doctoral researchers sharing
important information to better prepare faculty members to successfully recruit
and mentor underrepresented minority STEM postdoctoral researchers.
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Travel, Materials & Supplies, and Publication Support
MGE@MSA provides travel support for our postdoctoral researchers to present
their research, network professionally, and for additional professional
development opportunities. We also provide support for research materials and
supplies not otherwise available and support for publication costs.
Transition to TenureTrack Junior Faculty
Employment
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Travel Support
MGE@MSA provides travel support for our current postdoctoral researchers and
former doctoral graduates to seek tenure-track junior faculty employment in
universities and government agencies. We do not provide similar support for
private corporate employment.
Mentoring of
Junior Faculty
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Best Faculty Mentoring Programs
MGE@MSA staff collect available information on successful programs nationwide
which provide mentoring and professional development information to tenure-track
junior faculty members. We then work both to make such information available to our
MGE@MSA underrepresented minority STEM tenure-track junior faculty members and
also work with each to select appropriate workshop(s) both pre-service and in-service
for which we will provide, as necessary, all travel and program fees for participation.
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Travel, Materials & Supplies, and Publication Support
MGE@MSA provides travel support for our junior faculty members to present
their research, network professionally, and for additional professional
development opportunities. We also provide support for research materials and
supplies not otherwise available and support for publication costs.
WAESO/MGE@MSA
Upcoming 2007 Activities
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Host Louisiana LSAMP/AGEP Annual Meeting at Arizona State University
– Sunday, April 22, 2007
Annual WAESO/MGE@MSA Student Research Conference
– Monday, April 23, 2007
First MGE@MSA Faculty Postdoctoral Mentoring Institute
– Monday, April 23, 2007
Technological Enhancement of Humans? Perspectives of Researchers from
Underrepresented Populations Conference
– Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Faculty Doctoral Mentoring Institute at University of Nevada, Reno
– TBA
• National Science Foundation Human Resource Development Joint
Annual Meeting (Washington, DC)
– August 12-14, 2007