The New Mexico Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate:

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The New Mexico Alliance for Graduate Education
and the Professoriate Statistical Counterflow
David Johnson Dean of Graduate Studies New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology djohnson_at_nmt.ed
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• Graduate School decision-makers include
• Graduate school and Academic Deans, Provosts and
  other administrators
• STEM Departmental Chairs
• STEM Departmental Admissions and Selection
  Committees
• STEM Departmental Graduate Program Directors or
  Advisors
• STEM Faculty

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• The New Mexico Alliance
• New Mexico State University (NMSU lead)
• University of New Mexico (UNM)
• New Mexico Tech (NMT)

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UNM
NMT
NMSU
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• About New Mexico Tech
• Located in Socorro, New Mexico at the center of
  an hispanic majority state
• Socorro is a small (10,000 pop.) community with
  historical ties to mining.
• Nearest metropolitan center is Albuquerque _at_ 75
  miles

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• New Mexico Tech is small with 2,000 students of
  which 500 are graduate students.
• Institute of Engineering and Science
  particularly noted for its doctoral programs in
  hydrology and astrophysics.

• Change at NMT has been attenuated

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Departmental Admissions/Selection Committees
the Practice at New Mexico Tech NMT is a small
school with many fewer administrative layers.
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• Admissions/Selection Committees
• Departments make admissions decisions employing a
  wide variety of approaches.
• How do we maximize consideration of qualified
  underrepresented minority applicants?

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• Meet with departments/committees regularly
• Steering Committee as advocates for UM admission
• Financial Incentives for the student and for
  the departmental participation in UM recruitment.
• Other incentives Support letters for Criterion
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Practically, how can we get URM applications in
front of faculty and departments? and how can
departments be encouraged to give these
applications serious consideration?
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The Graduate Office pre-screens UM applications
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• Collect the data
• Number of UM applications to each department
• UM Percentage admitted
• UM Percentage matriculated

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• Distribute the (disaggregated) data
• To the departments
• Cc the provost

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