AGEP
PROJECT PROFILE INFORMATION:
New Mexico
Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NM-AGEP)
PI:
William C. Flores, Provost and Interim President, New Mexico State University, provost@nmsu.edu |
Program Coordinator / Director: Christine Marlow Project Director |
Preferred day-to-day contact person: Laurie Churchill Associate Project Director |
Primary
Partners: University of New Mexico, New Mexico Tech Secondary
Partners: Eastern New Mexico
University; New Mexico Highlands
University; University of Texas, El
Paso; Northern Arizona
University |
Disciplines
/ departments:
Website address: http://www.nmagep.org/
Impact nugget:
In 2003 NM-AGEP staff made 27 recruitment trips to conferences and graduate school fairs and participated in key national conferences (e.g., ACE Educating All of One Nation; SACNAS). Formal partnerships aimed at graduate recruitment have been established with Eastern New Mexico University and New Mexico Highlands University and are underway with the University of Texas-El Paso, Northern Arizona University, Universidad Metropolitana (San Juan, Puerto Rico) and the University of Puerto Rico/Humacao. The alliance maintains a recruitment calendar and responsibilities for attended events are shared among the three institutions. Prospective student contact information is collected into a single database and then distributed to NM-AGEP personnel, graduate school offices, and STEM department heads at each of the three institutions. The 81 new URM students who enrolled in NM-AGEP institutions in 2002 represented a 47% increase since 2000. New URM students in 2002 accounted for 19% of newly enrolled graduate students versus 12% in 2000.
Statement:
Close collaboration among NM-AGEP universities and outreach to targeted universities are positively impacting the number of URMs enrolled in STEM graduate programs in New Mexico’s doctoral-granting institutions.