Deba Dutta

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Are we working together?
Deba Dutta Acting Director Division of Graduate
Education National Science Foundation
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AGEP
promotes the establishment of alliances of
doctoral and non-doctoral institutions working
collaboratively to build and sustain
infrastructures to increase diversity at the
graduate level and beyond makes resources
available to significantly increase the number of
underrepresented minority students receiving
doctoral degrees and entering the professoriate
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Division of Graduate Education
Leads the National Science Foundations efforts
to attract the most talented students into
graduate studies, and to support them while they
are prepared to be the leaders in the science and
engineering careers of the future.
In the past year, DGE supported 4500 U.S.
citizens and permanent residents in graduate
programs through highly successful programs GRF,
GK-12 and IGERT
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GK-12 Program
Enables graduate students in STEM disciplines to
acquire skills that will broadly prepare them for
professional and scientific careers. Through
interactions with teachers in K-12 schools,
graduate students improve their communication and
teaching skills while enriching instruction in
K-12 schools.
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IGERT Program
developed to meet the challenges of educating
U.S. Ph.D. scientists and engineers by
establishing innovative new models for
integrating research, education and training in
interdisciplinary areas (new and emerging)

• Skills for tackling complex interdisciplinary
  research problems

2500 students funded 9 underrepresented
minorities

• collaboration, teamwork, communication across
  disciplines
• personal and professional skills

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AGEP GK-12/IGERT
an opportunity for substantial
cross-directorate fund leveraging an
opportunity for leveraging cross-directorate
activities in broadening participation at the
graduate level
Is it happening?
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Are you?

• Mobilizing AGEP recruitment infrastructure for
  IGERT, GK-12?
• Developing joint retention and advancement
  strategies with GK-12, IGERT coordinators
  incorporating successful AGEP strategies into
  their programs
• Including IGERT/GK-12 coordinators on AGEP
  steering and advisory committees?

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What we are doing?

• 1. IGERT solicitation (2006) allows the inclusion
  of Masters granting institutions ? if an MSI
• 2. Emphasis on the establishment of connections
  to AGEP/LSAMP/CREST/etc programs on campus
• 3. New PI orientation meeting at NSF to reiterate
  the importance of
• - Broadening participation efforts
• - Evaluation of recruitment/retention efforts
  (and results)
• - Progression toward the degree
• 4. Monitoring progress toward meeting diversity
  goals via annual reports (on QRC)

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DGE Program Principles

• Increasing Minority Graduate Enrollment
• Improving Graduate Retention
• Increasing the Production of Minority PhDs in
  STEM disciplines
• Expanding the Career Opportunities of Minority
  PhDs in STEM