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The New Mexico Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate: Statistical Counterflow

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@nmt.edu. 27-Jan-06. Graduate School decision-makers include:

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The New Mexico Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate: Statistical Counterflow

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  1. 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@nmt.edu 27-Jan-06

  2. 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 27-Jan-06

  3. The New Mexico Alliance: • New Mexico State University (NMSU; lead) • University of New Mexico (UNM) • New Mexico Tech (NMT) 27-Jan-06

  4. UNM NMT NMSU 27-Jan-06

  5. 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 @ ~75 miles 27-Jan-06

  6. 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” 27-Jan-06

  7. Departmental Admissions/Selection Committees – the Practice at New Mexico Tech NMT is a small school with many fewer administrative layers. 27-Jan-06

  8. Admissions/Selection Committees • Departments make admissions decisions employing a wide variety of approaches. • How do we maximize consideration of qualified underrepresented minority applicants? 27-Jan-06

  9. 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 2” 27-Jan-06

  10. 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? 27-Jan-06

  11. The Graduate Office pre-screens UM applications 27-Jan-06

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  13. Collect the data: • Number of UM applications to each department • UM Percentage admitted • UM Percentage matriculated 27-Jan-06

  14. Distribute the (disaggregated) data: • To the departments • Cc the provost 27-Jan-06

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