AGEP
PROJECT PROFILE INFORMATION: 
Iowa AGEP
PI: John Keller,
Dean
Graduate College University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 52242 |
Program Coordinator / Director: Phil Kutzko Professor of Mathematics and Collegiate Fellow Department of Mathematics University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 52242 319-335-0758 pkutzko@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu |
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Preferred day-to-day contact person: Phil Kutzko Professor of Mathematics and Collegiate Fellow Department of Mathematics University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 52242 319-335-0758 pkutzko@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu |
Primary Partners: University of Iowa Iowa State University University of Northern Iowa |
Disciplines / departments:
University
of Iowa:
·
Chemistry
·
Computer
Science
·
Geo-science
·
Mathematics
·
Measurement
and Testing
·
Physics
·
Statistics
·
College
of Engineering
Iowa State
University:
·
Chemistry
·
Computer
Science
·
Mathematics
·
Physics
·
Statistics
·
College
of Engineering
·
College
of Agriculture
University
of Northern Iowa:
·
Chemistry
·
Mathematics
Website address: www.agep.iastate.edu
Impact nugget:
It was expected that the new Iowa Regents Universities AGEP project would have an impact on the participating institutions; what was not expected was the extent to which these institutions themselves have been transformed in the short year and one half since the project’s inception. Here are some of the changes that have taken place at the University of Iowa during the first year of the grant:
- Three departments –
Chemistry, Engineering and Mathematics – made successful applications to
the US Department of Education GAANN fellowship program in the context of
Iowa AGEP.
- Two Colleges,
Engineering and Liberal Arts and Sciences, have created budgeted positions
for minority affairs.
- The University has joined
GEM
- Departments in the
Health and Life Sciences have petitioned to join Iowa AGEP
- The Department of
Mathematics awarded the doctoral degree to three US underrepresented
minority students, roughly ten percent of the number awarded nationally in
mathematics during this period.
Similar transformations are taking place at Iowa
State University and the University of Northern Iowa.
These transformations have had immediate
impact. For example, the fellowships
mentioned above help to support fifteen new underrepresented minority graduate
students who have entered the University of Iowa in STEM fields this fall.
Statement:
Iowa AGEP is built on the principles of Access, Community and Transformation. We create access with our summer programs, with our close ties with minority serving institutions and LSAMP programs and with the changes we are making in our institutional culture so that it better reflects the environment found at the colleges and universities from which we draw our students. We build community with our emphasis of mentoring, our deep commitment to student development and our ties to the minority communities in Iowa. We transform our institutions by building durable administrative and academic structures in our departments, our colleges and our universities.