Snapshots of Excellence

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• Snapshots of Excellence
• National AGEP Conference
• Chicago, IL
• March 19, 2009
• Colette Patt, Frances Leslie, Christine Des
  Jarlais, and Do Quyen Tran-Taylor
• Special thanks to Mark Westlye and Abram
  Rosenblatt

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Overview of the University of California System

• 10 campuses
• Varying sizes and rankings
• Awarded AGEP grant in 2000

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Whats Worked for UC

• UC system-wide internal alliance collaboration
  and cooperation
• Overarching activities, program, information
  sharing
• Campus innovation investment, autonomy,
  responsibility

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Institutional Infrastructure/Collaboration

• Collaboration and Integration Across 10 Research
  1 Campuses
• Builds on centralized structure UCOP and campus
  Co-PIs
• Good of the whole system
• Sharing funds, data, best-practices

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Alliance-wide Collaborations

• UC-CSU Faculty Summit to increase URM students
  entering UC doctoral programs
• MOU with both California LSAMPs data-sharing,
  and collaborative programming
• HBCU Initiative UCSB, UCLA
• UCSF Post-doc Bootcamp
• UC Edge Day at UCLA
• Sharing best practices across the Alliance e.g.,
  Summer Bridge for entering PhD students,
  Diversity Coordinators at UCB, UCSD, and UCSB

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Programmatic Highlights

• UC San Diegos Diversity Outreach Collaboration
  program
• UC Berkeley Fellows Program
• UC Irvine mental health study ADVANCE
  collaboration
• Riverside quintupled applications admits

URM STEM Graduate Applications and Admissions at
UC Riverside
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UC AGEP STEM Graduate NumbersSystemwide (10
Campus Totals)US Citizens Permanent
Residents2007-2008
URM includes African American, Chicano/Latino,
and Native American Non-URM includes Asian
American, White, and Unknown/Decline to State
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New URM STEM Graduate EnrollmentsUniversity of
California Systemwide (10 Campuses)US Citizens
Permanent Residents
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New STEM Graduate EnrollmentsPercent URM of
Total US Citizens Permanent ResidentsUniversity
of California Systemwide (10 Campuses)
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URM STEM PhDs AwardedUniversity of California
Systemwide (10 Campuses)US Citizens Permanent
Residents
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URM STEM PhDs AwardedPercent URM of Total US
Citizens Permanent ResidentsUniversity of
California Systemwide (10 Campuses)
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UC Regents Task Force on Diversity Data on URMs
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Goals of UC AGEP Phase III
Recruitment

• Partner with Minority Serving Institutions
• CSUs HBCUs Tribal Colleges

Retention

• Summer Bridge programs
• Career and personal development programs

• PostDoc Bootcamp
• Partner with ADVANCE
• Partner with CUC

Career Transitions
Institutional Transformation

• Partnership of all stakeholders within and
• between UC campuses

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Summary of Phase III Program Activities
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Financial Threats to Existing Infrastructure
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What will the future hold?
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• Questions?