Archives For Divsciences

Extended Reading List

Source: Minorities in the Sciences: Top Twenty Annotation, October 2, 2000. Prepared by: Kenneth Maton, Alphonso Gantt, Troy Green, and Colleen Loomis. Funding Provided by NIGMS/NIH Allen, W.R. (1992). The color of success: African American college student outcomes at predominantly white and historically black colleges and universities. Harvard Educational Review, 62(1),… Continue reading »

Background

These three symposia were inspired by a panel discussion at the October 2004 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Program Directors/Professors meeting in Washington, D.C. A group of 18 collaborators developed a mini-grant proposal, “Seeding Commitments to Diversity: Disseminating Effective Mentoring and Retention Programs”, which garnered financial support from HHMI, NIH,… Continue reading »

Registration

Before you Register… Please check the following requirements: Is at least one high-level administrator (President, VP, Provost, Dean) and one science faculty member attending the symposium? Has your team gathered relevant institutional data on underrepresented minority participation in your undergraduate science programs? If not, will you be able to prepare… Continue reading »

Requirements For Participation

To ensure that institution-specific action plans developed at and following the symposia emanate from an informed consideration of current practices, specific pre-symposium work is required of all teams planning to attend the symposium. Comparison of successful and unsuccessful undergraduate diversity-in-science initiatives reveals that strong commitment by both administrators and faculty… Continue reading »

Travel Awards

Awards to help defray some of the travel expenses for institutional teams are available and must be applied for when your team registers. Awards of up to $2,000 (or 75% of travel costs, whichever is less) will be made to support the travel of up to four members of an… Continue reading »