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

 cmarlow@nmsu.edu

 

 

Preferred day-to-day contact person: Laurie Churchill

Associate Project Director

 ljchurch@nmsu.edu

 

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.