AGEP PROJECT
PROFILE INFORMATION:
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PI: Systemwide: Ellen
S. Switkes
Assistant Vice President, Academic Advancement Office of the President Fax: (510) 587-6077 Ellen.Switkes@ucop.edu Berkeley: P. Buford Price Principal Investigator Department of Physics University of California, Berkeley 366 LeConte MC 7300 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-7300 Telephone: 510-642-4982 bprice@berkeley.edu Mark Richards Co-Investigator Dean, Physical Sciences L&S Dean's Office 201 Campbell Hall MC 4767 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-4767 Telephone: 510-642-8560 Mark_Richards@LS.Berkeley.edu Geoff Owen Co-Investigator Dean, Biological Sciences L&S Dean's Office 201 Campbell Hall MC 2920 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-2920 Telephone: (510) 642-5716 Geoff_Owen@LS.berkeley.edu Richard Newton Co-Investigator Dean, College of Engineering Engineering Dean's Office 320 McLaughlin MC 1700 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1700 Telephone: 510-642-5771 newton@coe.berkeley.edu Mary Ann Mason Co-Investigator Dean, Graduate Division Dean's Office, Graduate Division 424 Sproul Hall MC 5900 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-5900 Telephone: 510-642-5472 graddean@uclink.berkeley.edu George Johnson Co-Investigator Association Dean, College of Engineering Center for Underrepresented Engineering Students 312 McLaughlin Hall MC 1700 University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1700 Telephone: 510-642-3371 gjohnson@me.berkeley.edu Irvine: William H. E. Parker Principal Investigator Graduate Dean and Vice Chancellor for Research University of California, Irvine 155 Administration Building Irvine, CA 92697-3180 Telephone: (949) 824-5796 Fax: (949) 824-2095 Nicolaos G Alexopoulos Co-Investigator Dean, Henry Samueli School of Engineering University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-2700 Telephone:(949) 824-6002 Fax: (949) 824-7966 alfios@uci.edu
Susan V. Bryant
Co-Investigator Dean, School of Biological University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697-1450 Telephone: (949) 824-5316 Fax:
(949) 824-3035 svbryant@uci.edu
Ronald J. Stern Co-Investigator Dean of Physical Sciences University of California, Irvine Physical Sciences Irvine, CA 92697-4675 Telephone: (949) 824-6022 Fax Number: (949) 824-2261 http://www.math.uci.edu/~rstern San
Diego: Richard Attiyeh Principal Investigator Graduate Dean University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093 Telephone: 858-534-6654 rattiyeh@ucsd.edu Frieder Seible Co-Investigator Dean of Engineering University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093 Telephone: (858)534-6237 fseible@ucsd.edu Mark Thiemens Co-Investigator
Dean of Physical Sciences University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093 Telephone: (858)534-6882 (Dean's number) mthiemens@ucsd.edu |
Program Coordinator / Director: Systemwide: Elizabeth Kunz UC AGEP Systemwide Coordinator UC Center Suite 100 Room 15 550 E. Shaw Avenue Fresno, CA 93710 FAX: 559-241-7422 Phone: 559-241-6577 Elizabeth.Kunz@ucop.edu Berkeley: Colette E. Patt Director The Berkeley Edge Program University of California, Berkeley 366 LeConte Hall #7300 Berkeley, CA 94720-7300 Meltem Erol Assistant Director The Berkeley Edge Program University of California, Berkeley 366 LeConte Hall #7300 Berkeley, CA 94720-7300 Irvine: Lisa M. Gauf Director, Recruitment, Retention, and Diversity Programs University of California, Irvine R&GS-Graduate Studies Irvine, CA 92697-3180 Mario Robles Co-Director- Alliance for Graduate Education and
the Professoriate (AGEP) University of California, Irvine R&GS-Graduate Studies Irvine, CA 92697-3180 San
Diego: Timothy Johnston Program Director Office of Graduate Studies & Research 518 Eleanor Roosevelt College 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0003 Telephone: (858) 858-534-3871 tjohnston@ucsd.edu Victor Chavez, Jr. Program Coordinator Office of Graduate Studies & Research 518 Eleanor Roosevelt College 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0003 Telephone: 858-822-2030 vchavez@ucsd.edu |
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Preferred day-to-day contact person: Elizabeth Kunz UC AGEP Systemwide Coordinator UC Center Suite 100 Room 15 550 E. Shaw Avenue Fresno, CA 93710 FAX: 559-241-7422 Phone: 559-241-6577 Elizabeth.Kunz@ucop.edu |
Primary
Partners: UC Alliance Member Campuses: ·
UC Berkeley ·
Davis ·
Irvine ·
Los Angeles ·
Riverside ·
San Diego ·
San Francisco ·
Santa Barbara ·
Santa Cruz. Secondary
Partners: Lawrence
Berkeley National Lab Sandia
National Lab, Lawrence
Livermore National Lab San
Diego State University CSU
Long Beach CSU
Dominguez Hills CSU
Fullerton CSU
Fullerton Cal State Los Angeles |
Disciplines
/ departments:
Website
address: Systemwide: http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/agep/
Berkeley: http://ls.berkeley.edu/diversity/bep/
Irvine: http://www.rgs.uci.edu/grad/diversity/entering_agep.htm
San Diego: http://www-ogsr.ucsd.edu/masem/index.htm
Impact nugget:
As a system, UC AGEP has
increased the number of underrepresented minority enrollees from its baseline,
the average new graduate enrollment of the 1997-1999 academic years. In 1997-1999 there were on average 131
underrepresented new graduate student enrollees system-wide in STEM
fields. In 2003, there were 237 such
students. In this period,
underrepresented minority graduate student enrollees increased 74% over our
baseline average, while non-minority student enrollment increased 48%.
The Berkeley Edge Conference invites pre-selected
students to participate as well as the students’ faculty mentors and directors
of minority-focused programs.
Nominations for student participants are solicited from the directors of
minority-advancement programs for undergraduates, such as Minority Access to
Research Careers (MARC) program directors and Louis Stokes Alliances for
Minority Participation (LSAMP) directors. In addition, the Berkeley Edge seeks
out nominations from Berkeley doctoral alumni who are now serving as faculty at
other universities and colleges.
The conference introduces
prospective students to faculty and graduate students in the science,
mathematics, and engineering departments. It offers students the opportunity to
tour campus research facilities and national laboratories. They are afforded
the opportunity to have one-on-one consultations with UC Berkeley faculty and
researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory (LLNL), and Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia). Finally,
students are provided with pragmatic advice about Berkeley's graduate program
application process and the process for winning fellowships.
The number of students applying to the conference has increased significantly each year. For the Fall 2001 conference, 91 students applied, 51 were invited. In Fall 2002, 119 applied, 52 were invited. Most recently, in Fall 2003, 141 students applied and 54 were invited. Of those who were invited and attended the conference, the number who applied for admission, were admitted, and subsequently enrolled at UC Berkeley has also increased over the years. In 2001, of the fifty-one students who attended the conference, 28 applied (for Fall 2002 admission), 14 were admitted and 8 enrolled. In 2002, 31 applied (for Fall 2003 admission), 15 were admitted and 10 enrolled. In 2003, 42 applied (for Fall 2004 admission). At this time it is too early to determine the total number of students admitted and those who have enrolled for Fall 2004.
UC Irvine’s
Alliance for Education and the Professoriate student experience begins with the
summer Competitive Edge Program. This
program is comprised of eight weeks of intensive training during the summer
prior to the students’ first quarter of enrollment in a UCI Ph.D. program. It is designed to assist underrepresented
minority graduate students in a variety of ways, including:
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Getting students physically situated on campus through a
guaranteed on-campus housing program specifically for underrepresented minority
scholars
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Informing students of the expectations and resources
available to them at UC Irvine through personal contact with Office of Graduate
Studies and other campus staff
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Acquainting students with their fellow graduate scholar
colleagues through a variety of research related and socialization activities,
and
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Training them in key skills important to future success as
graduate students and faculty through personal meetings with faculty during
workshops and other programmatic activities
The Competitive Edge Summer Program assists
in building a higher confidence level in underrepresented minority students,
giving them a sense of community by familiarizing them with campus prior to
most other entering doctoral students, and allowing them to feel at home in
what might otherwise be considered a very large and complicated institution.
Students receive a stipend of $5,000 for their participation in the program and
research work done in lab throughout the eight-week summer program. The UCI-AGEP Program continues to make great
strides in diversifying graduate school.
The
MASEM Program has been active in several fronts, particularly in terms of
outreach efforts to recruit underrepresented students in STEM fields. Efforts
include:
The
MASEM program served as a catalyst to bring together eleven other UCSD campus
summer research programs for collaborative outreach, application, and program
activities. This collaboration provided
the opportunity to fund eligible participants in different programs (i.e. AEP,
CURE (Chemistry), MSTP_Pharmacology, REU (Physics), UC LEADS, Marine Physical
Laboratory Summer Research Internship Program (MPLSRIP)) to increase the
diversity within these programs. Collaboration
has also resulted in a common website (http://sea.ucsd.edu/summer_research/)
that provides the opportunity for prospective students to learn about various
summer research opportunities at UCSD.
The
MASEM program is working with four UCSD NSF funded IGERT (Integrative Graduate
Education and Research Training) programs to identify outreach/recruitment
strategies and opportunities to attract diverse students to their
programs. Efforts will include activities
such as connecting faculty to become liaisons with CSU schools and attending
conferences where underrepresented students are targeted (i.e. SACNAS, NSBE,
AISES). Conferences which have already been attended: Annual Conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and
Black Physics Students (ACBPS), ASLO 2004 (American Society of Limnology and
Oceanography), February 15-20, Honolulu, Hawaii, and the 2004 Minority Trainee
Research Forum in San Diego, California.
The
MASEM program is also working with the PEER (Pacific Earthquake Engineering
Research Center) PEER Education Program, a summer research program for junior
level undergraduate students interested in introducing, stimulate, cultivate,
and educate undergraduate and graduate students to contribute to the
earthquake-engineering profession from a variety of disciplines and
perspectives. This effort will identify
diverse students to apply and participate in the program, particularly at
certain CSU campuses (Cal State LA, Cal State Northridge, Cal State Long Beach)
where earthquake-engineering programs exist.
Outreach at these campuses will build on the contacts that have been
established through the MASEM program (i.e. MEP, LSAMP). Participation in this program can provide
exposure to diverse engineering students to research and graduate program
opportunities at UCSD and other UC campuses (UCB, UCI, UCLA, and UCD).
Finally,
the MASEM program is working with departments which have GAANN funding on
recruitment/outreach efforts for diverse students. Other academic departments at UCSD, particularly those with NSF
and NIH funding, have been working with MASEM/OGSR (Office of Graduate Studies
& Research) staff to identify and devise outreach/recruitment strategies to
outreach, recruit, and retain diverse students in their programs.
UCSB is actively working toward the goal of creating
institutional transformation. The Executive Vice Chancellor (EVC) has expressed
direct interest in the graduate diversity matter by organizing a faculty task
force that is charged with reviewing and redesigning the campuses graduate
diversity infrastructure and in identifying ways of increasing our
effectiveness and commitment to recruiting and retaining underrepresented
minorities (URM) in our graduate and post-doc communities. This task force is meeting now and hoping to
have a final report with recommendations by end of June.
The campus has already committed itself to boosting
staffing for this area of concern. Two
of the divisional deans have already committed themselves to hiring a graduate
diversity coordinator to work in their divisions (and they have each offered to
pay 50% of the FTE costs for this position).
The campus has been actively developing partnerships
with historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) and minority serving
institution (MSI) campuses (especially Jackson State and other AGEM
institutions) as well as the Howard University/UTEP AGEP campuses. We have
already submitted (or are in the process of submitting) funding proposals to
the NSF for a Science and Technology Center (STC) and an IGERT proposal that
builds on relationships with these other AGEP campuses with more on the way.
After piloting the Graduate Research Internship Program (GRIP) last summer, this year we are coming in with a full implementation by bringing 16 PhD students to UCSB this summer to give them the opportunity to work with researchers in a different lab setting, to build network ties and to prepare the way for a return as a postdoctoral scholar at one of the UC campuses. The students are AGEP students from around the nation, most of them from MSIs.
Statement:
Berkeley
The Berkeley Edge Conference is designed to encourage underrepresented minority students who are competitively eligible for our Ph.D. programs in the STEM fields to apply to UC Berkeley. The conference is held over a three-day period in which approximately fifty students and twenty-five faculty mentors are introduced to the Berkeley faculty, students, research facilities and national laboratories.