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Appendix B: A Selection of STEMM Intervention Programs that Include Mentoring Experiences
Appendix B: A Selection of STEMM Intervention Programs that Include Mentoring Experiences
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program seeks to advance knowledge about models to improve pathways to the professoriate and success for historically underrepresented minority doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty, particularly African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders, in specific STEM [cience, s technology, engineering, and mathematics] disciplines and/or STEM education research fields.
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2012. PROMISE: Maryland's Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate enhances recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority graduate students.
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awards, which "provide support for research that seeks to create and study new theory-driven models and innovations related to the participation and success of underrepresented groups in STEM undergraduate education." • Implementation Projects (IMP) awards, which "provide support to design, implement, study, and assess comprehensive institutional efforts for increasing the number of students receiving undergraduate degrees in STEM and enhancing the quality of their preparation by strengthening STEM education and research." • Broadening Participation Research Centers (BPRC)
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[BPRCs] are expected to conduct research on STEM education and broadening participation in STEM; perform outreach to HBCUs in order to build capacity for conducting this type of research; and work to disseminate promising broadening participation research in order to enhance STEM education and research outcomes for African American undergraduates across the country." Selected Publications Fortenberry, N
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The program seeks new learning and immediate diffusion of scholarly research into the field. Under this program, funding for STEM educational and broadening participation research activities could include research to develop new models in STEM engagement, recruitment and retention practices for all critical pathways to STEM careers or research on interventions such as mentoring, successful learning practices and environments, STEM efficacy studies, and technology use." Selected Publications Chubin, D
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, which focuses on early-career faculty,2 and the NINDS Research Education Program, which supports programmatic efforts across career stages.3 In 2014, a major new research effort spanning the NIH ICs was launched, called the Diversity Program Consortium (DPC) .4 Ten multi-institutional sites around the country 2 ore information is available at https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/grants-and-training/training-and-career M development/diversity/programs-increase-diversity-among-individuals-engaged-health-related-research pride; accessed on May 23, 2019.
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2018. Promoting STEM trainee research self efficacy: A mentor training intervention.
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in hands-on research in order to bring participants into contact with suitable STEM mentors and expose them to this rich research experience." "Requests for supplemental funding must include a Recruitment Plan, describing how at least six members of one or more of the following groups will be recruited as RPs: • Underrepresented minorities (African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and other Pacific Islanders) ; • Women and girls; • Veterans enrolled in post-secondary education; or • Persons with disabilities." Selected Publications McCave, E
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program supports active research participation by undergraduate students in any of the areas of research funded by the National Science Foundation [NSF]
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units and other organizations, TCUP aims to increase Native individuals' participation in STEM careers and improve the quality of STEM programs at TCUP-eligible institutions. TCUP strongly encourages the inclusion of activities that will benefit veterans." Selected Publications Cullinane, J
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Over the past 26 years, of the more than 3,000 BSP graduates, 60% have been underrepresented minorities (African American, Hispanic, and American Indian) , 70% women, and 80% from low-income backgrounds and/or the first in their family to attend college." BSP members are selected "based on their strengths (potential to contribute to the BSP community and society)
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students are more likely to use the master's degrees as a stepping stone to the PhD. Hence, to increase the number of URM students engaged in PhD-level STEM research, a relationship between Fisk University, which is an accredited Historically Black Colleges and Univer sities (HBCU)
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:374–379. Gateways to the Laboratory at Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/ Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional MD–PhD Program • https://mdphd.weill.cornell.edu/summer-program "The mission of the Gateways to the Laboratory Program is to increase the number of students from backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in medicine and science who are prepared to become competitive applicants, successful MD-PhD students, and future leaders in biomedical research and academic medicine." "College freshmen and sophomores who are US citizens or permanent residents and are from racial or ethnic backgrounds shown to be underrepresented in biomedical research, individuals from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds, and/or individuals with disabilities, as described by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
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2000. African American college students excelling in the sciences: College and postcollege outcomes in the Meyerhoff Scholars Program.
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The program was started in 2006 to address a significant retention issue in the forensic sciences program at John Jay College, particularly among underrepresented students. Selected Publications Carpi, A., D
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is a gateway to gradu ate education at Big Ten Academic Alliance universities. The goal of the program is to increase the number of underrepresented students who pursue graduate study and research careers.
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2010. The academic influence of mentoring upon African American undergraduate aspirants to the profes soriate.
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Selected Publications Reed, G
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K12 initiatives, many other professionals can trace their start along the STEM pathway to a program administered by a NAMEPA member institution that exposed them to the exciting careers in STEM." Their mission is to "provide quality services, information, and tools for our stakeholders, develop and matriculate a diverse pool of engineers and scientists from K–16, and achieve equity and parity in the nation's workforce." Their mission is to "be recognized as the national expert in the development and matriculation of extraordinary engineers and scientists from historically underrepresented populations; African American, Hispanic American and Native American, Native Alaskan, Native Pacific Islanders." National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) • http://www.nsbe.org/home.aspx "With more than 500 chapters and nearly 16,000 active members in the U.S.
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We also want to continue to build and establish WISE as a foundational special interest group for both NSBE Collegiate and professional members." National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP) • https://www.nsbp.org/ "Founded in 1977 at Morgan State University, the mission of the National Society of Black Physicists is to promote the professional well-being of African American physicists and physics students within the international scientific community and within society at large.
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2005. Influence of African American engineering student perceptions of campus climate on graduation rates.
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Mentors are required to attend a mentor training call. AGU Sharing Science Mentoring Program • https://sharingscience.agu.org/s2-mentors/ Sharing Science connects graduate students with established scientists and commu nication professionals who are also enthused about and engaged in sharing their science with public audiences.
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facilitates and supports mentoring relationships between African American, Hispanic American, and Native American undergraduate physics students and local physics mentors. Membership in the NMC is free for both Mentors and Mentees." They have hosted a conference for physics Bridge Programs, a mentor webinar series, and "Día de la Física" with the National Society of Hispanic Physicists.
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As a web-based platform, EngineerGirl is able to reach broad audiences and reach students who do not have access to engineering role models in their own communities. The EngineerGirl Ambassadors Program also encompasses mentorship.
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degrees in computing sciences • Promote and engage students in teaching and training opportunities • Add more diverse researchers into the advanced technology workforce. iAAMCS hosts the National Society for Blacks in Computing conference, which provides mentoring and networking opportunities for Black/African American undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and research scientists.
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both honor individuals who during their careers demonstrate extraordinary leadership to increase the participation of underrepresented groups in science and engi neering fields and careers. These groups include: women of all racial or ethnic groups; African American, Native American, and Hispanic men; and people with disabilities." "Both awards recognize an individual who has mentored and guided significant numbers of students from underrepresented groups to the completion of doctoral studies or who has impacted the climate of a department, college, or institution to significantly increase the diversity of students pursuing and completing doctoral studies." Selected Publication Smith, D., and Y
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