SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program

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SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program

• Strategies to Promote Diversity
• Darimiscotta, ME
• March 12, 2007

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More Than a Check and a Handshake

• SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program

Ph.D.
Ph.D.

SREB
SREB
States
Ph.D.
Ph.D.

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Southern Regional Educational Board

• The Southern Regional Education Board works with
  those who are seeking to
• improve education from prekindergarten through
  graduate programs.
• SREBs programs and services can be described in
  four categories
• compiles and disseminates information provided by
  states
• coordination of shared state resources
• demonstration programs leading by example and
• SREB-sponsored meetings.

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Program Goal and Objectives

• GOAL
• To increase the number of minorities who earn
• Ph.D.s and who seek to become faculty members
• PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
• Long term state and university participation
• Comprehensive package of support
• Effective teaching, mentoring, research
• Collaborate with other state, regional, and
• national programs
• Evaluate practices and disseminate results

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Regional Services
More Than a Check And a Handshake

• Financial support long-term
• Regular contact/follow-up
• Professional development
• Mentoring
• Networking/community building
• Advocacy and counseling
• Career counseling
• Institute on Teaching and Mentoring
• Preparation for the professoriate

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Program Components

• Doctoral Scholars Award (Five years)
• Dissertation Year Fellowship (One year)
• Compact for Faculty Diversity Institute on
  Teaching and Mentoring
• Professional Development Matching Fund

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Doctoral Scholars Award

• Five years support
• Tuition and fee waiver (In and Out-of-State)
• Three years support-- 15,000/yr
• Two-years of institutional support (TA/RA,
  Fellowship, etc.)
• Annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring
• Regional Program services

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Dissertation Year Fellowship

• One year of support
• 15,000 living stipend
• 500 research allowance
• Annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring
• Regional Program Services

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Doctoral Scholar Program Profile

• 14th Year
• 715 Scholars Served (29 States, 84 Institutions)
• 294 Matriculating
• 337 Graduates

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Academic Fields
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Race / Ethnicity of Scholars Served

• 613 African American
• 51 Hispanic American
• 23 Asian American
• 16 American Indian/Alaskan Native
• 14 Other Minority Groups

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SREB Participant Milestones

• 88 retention/ graduation
• 294 scholars currently matriculating
• 337 program graduates
• 12 tenured graduates

• 78 of graduates employed in an academic setting
• 77 of graduates employed in a postsecondary
  setting
• 71 of graduates employed within participating
  states

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Program GraduatesTime to Degree

• Doctoral Scholars (n200)
• Time to degree average 3.4 years, with masters
• 4.3 years, without masters
• Dissertation Fellows (n137)
• Time to degree average 1.7 years

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More Than 337 Graduates and Counting
SREB-State Doctoral Scholars Program Graduates
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More Than a Check and a Handshake