Strategies for Broadening Participation

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Strategies for Broadening Participation
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• DMR Facilities Directors Meeting
• Tallahassee, FL
• September 20, 2007
• Roosevelt Y. Johnson, Ph.D.
• Program Director, AGEP
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Overview

• Role of Diversity and Inclusiveness
• Strategic and Tactical Thinking
• Areas of Opportunity
• Auxiliary Services
• Bottom Line

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The Role of Diversity

• If we dont have a diverse workforce, we limit
  the set of life experiences that an engineering
  team will have and, consequently, we limit the
  creativity that could be brought to bear.
• William Wulf, President, National Academy of
  Engineering
• Diverse participation encourages creativity,
  stability and resilience. Enlisting a broad range
  of minds and backgrounds yields products and
  services that benefit a broad range of consumers.
  Broad participation benefits business too.
• National Center for Women in Information
  Technology

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Strategic and Tactical Thinking

• Comprehensive vs Cherry Picking
• Collaboration Co-investment Leveraging
• Capacity-Building Infrastructure Programs at NSF

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EHR Invests in Building Capacity

• Building educational capacity
• LSAMP
• AGEP
• Building research capacity
• HBCU-UP
• TCUP
• CREST
• EPSCoR

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Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation
(LSAMP)

• Increase the number of minority students who
  enroll and complete degrees in baccalaureate STEM
  programs
• Provides research experiences, academic support
  services, mentoring
• Bridge to the Doctorate (initiated in 2003)
• Connecting new LSAMP graduates to doctoral degree
  programs

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Alliances for Graduate Education and the
Professoriate (AGEP)

• Increase significantly the number of
  underrepresented students pursuing advanced
  studies and receiving STEM Ph.D. degrees
• Increase significantly the number of minorities
  entering the professoriate as role models and
  mentors

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Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP)andTribal
Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP)

• Improve the quality of STEM education
• Increase participation and success in
  undergraduate programs
• Increase access to undergraduate research
  opportunities

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Centers for Research Excellence in Science and
Technology (CREST)

• Build the research competitiveness of
  minority-serving institutions
• Increase the recruitment and retention of
  individuals from diverse backgrounds in STEM
  study and STEM careers

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Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive
Research (EPSCoR)

• Joint program of the NSF and several U.S. states
  and territories
• Promotes the development of the states' science
  and technology resources through partnerships
  with universities, industry, and government, and
  the Federal RD enterprise

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Capacity-Building Infrastructure Who has it?

• LSAMP 34 Alliances, gt450 institutions
• AGEP 22 Alliances, gt100 institutions
• HBCU-UP 38 active awards to HBCUs
• TCUP 18 active awards at Tribal Colleges and
  Universities
• CREST 14 active sites at minority-serving
  institutions

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Areas of Opportunity

• K-12
• Undergraduate
• Graduate
• Postdoctoral
• Faculty

• Outreach
• Enrichment
• Educational Development
• Professional Advancement
• Career Enhancement

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Where can you find help?

• Institute for Broadening Participation (IBP)
• Southern Regional Education Board
• HRD Joint Annual PI Meeting

• Proactive Networking and Communications
• Student Talent Access
• Comprehensive Networking

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Contact Information

• IBP
• SREB
• JAM

• www.agep.us
• http//sreb.org/programs/dsp/institute/institutein
  dex.asp
• https//www.edjassociates.com/jam07/home.asp

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Bottom Line

• Commit
• Plan
• Collaborate
• Evaluate

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My Contact Information...
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• Dr. Roosevelt Y. Johnson
• Program Director, AGEP
• National Science Foundation
• Division of Human Resource Development
• 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 815
• Arlington, VA 22230
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email ryjohnso_at_nsf.gov