Understanding and Offsetting Financial Barriers for Black Students in Science, Engineering, and Medicine Programs, Partnerships, and Pathways: Proceedings of a Workshop (2022) / Chapter Skim
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6 Beyond Finances: Living, Growing, and Thriving in Institutions of Higher Learning as a Standard
6 Beyond Finances: Living, Growing, and Thriving in Institutions of Higher Learning as a Standard
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. • Creating a community of scholars at the undergraduate and grad uate levels, through the Cardea Fellows Program and BioCoRE (Biosciences Collaborative for Research Engagement)
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BOSTON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING Dr. Duncanson discussed initiatives at BU's College of Engineering to reach students from underrepresented groups in Boston and worldwide, and she proposed structures and opportunities when considering pipelines.
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Ultimately, we are aiming to increase interest in engineering by helping students do engineering, such as exciting engineering projects aligned to curriculum standards. Current engineering majors are recruited to become "Inspiration Ambassadors" who go to middle and high schools in Boston and around the country to show how engineering can transform lives.
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Two participants of the program suggested that the program run a full year for students who are preparing or committed to a career in health care so that they can master core knowledge in math and science. The program encompasses specialized advising and support and also deals with curriculum and problems that cause students the most difficulty.
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To dispel these myths, students now apply to the program and the language about it explicitly says, "Every undergraduate admitted to Duke has demonstrated academic excellence." It took about 2 years to change the perception to show that the program is set up to prepare students' paths to achieve. The program is structured so that students live together, participate in specialized advising and tutoring, meet weekly in a seminar to discuss issues they face, meet regularly with an academic advisor, and explore careers.
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IDEALS takes on a large part of the antiracism work going on in the School of Medicine and is helping to apply a systems lens through which Duke creates programs, teaches the sciences, and engages students in their own learning and success.
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Dr. Ford noted that UCR SOM uses a holistic application review approach that, in addition to academic record, considers resilience, distance traveled, and mission fit.
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For example, a summer research program brings RCC students to UCR research laboratories. Eleven RCC B2B students recently transferred to UCR through the program, nine of whom (including two Black students now working in SOM labs)
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Just Program at Dartmouth College. Ernest Everett Just was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth in 1907 and a pioneering African American cell biologist.
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1 For information on the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, see https:// www.mmuf.org/.
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Figuring out how to operate during COVID-19 and holding town halls during the Black Lives Matter protests showed the importance of health and wellness. Black students felt extremely stressed.
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At the faculty and staff level, it is difficult for institutions in rural areas like northern New England, he acknowledged. However, he suggested that something that could stem the flow from such locations is when institutions come out unabashedly in favor of "effecting the type of change we are talking about." Underrepresented minority students typically want to have social impact, as do faculty and staff, Dr.
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Dr. Daley noted that the medical community requires continuing medical education, so there could be piggybacking on this system of train ing and validation by instituting implicit bias and other training.
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64 OFFSETTING FINANCIAL BARRIERS FOR BLACK STUDENTS IN SEM assistant director were hired, with money to support data collection and analysis. She noted that foundations also want to see data.
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