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5 The Meyerhoff Undergraduate Scholars Program
5 The Meyerhoff Undergraduate Scholars Program
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Today, our program is open to all high-achieving students. Although the Meyerhoff undergraduate program was opened to all students in 1996, we still have 71 percent participation by African Americans, 14 percent by Asian students, and only 12 percent by Caucasians.
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The Meyerhoff Scholars Program contains several major components: the Summer Bridge program, mentoring, summer research experience, monetary support (including room and board, tuition and fees, and a book allowance) , cultural arts activities, academic advising, travel to present research at national scientific conferences, assistance with graduate and professional school placement, and staff support.
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When they were in the classes, they never spoke up, they often sat in the back of the class, and they generally although not alwaysdid not perform as well as most of the white students. Now we see large numbers of underrepresented minority students sitting in the front of the class, asking questions, and pushing the teachers.
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Note that all African Americans during this time were Meyerhoff students. Figure 5.1 shows the graduation rates for students majoring in SEM fields at UMBC from 1990 to ~ ~ , .
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What about the students who were offered a Meyerhoff scholarship and went elsewhere? The GPAs are similar, 3.16 for the Meyerhoff students and 2.90 for those who declined.
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In 1998 she moved to the Universitv of Marvland at College Park and I took over the program. 1 ~7 The graduate program is modeled after the Meyerhoff undergraduate program in order to boost our minority graduate output.
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Isiah Warner came once and gave the talk. I was surprised because, even at UMBC with a black president and all the changes that have been taking place, after his talk I heard a white student say, "Wow, I didn't realize that African American scientists were doing those sorts of things." It was surprising.
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Figure 5.4 compares the number of underrepresented minority graduate students that were in the department before the IMSD graduate program and after the graduate program. In biology there were zero underrepresented minority students.
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I heard that in the entering freshman class, the students with the highest SATs and the highest GPAs were the African Americans. Michael F
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What are the added costs that have been put into place that were not there before the Meyerhoff Program existed, and what costs in terms of faculty time and administrative efforts are put in? How much of an incremental cost is this to make something really work right?
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Summers: Thank you. I should tell you that Tom Steitz at Yale told me two years ago that Yale made more offers for their biophysics graduate programs to students from UMBC than from any other place.
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I am not aware that the attrition rate for African Americans, for example, at graduate schools is exceptionally high or different from what we would have projected. My question is, what particular issue were you addressing with the graduate program?
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E Kent Barefield, Georgia Institute of Technology: There are a lot of African American students who graduate from Georgia Tech.
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However, when you compare the differential unit cost between providing academic excellence for the students and merely supporting academic mediocrity or failure, it is only an incremental difference. Further, when you compare the unit costs of supporting a Meyerhoff student with the social costs of supporting a failed human being, fully integrated over a lifetime, there is no comparison.
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