Achievement
STRATEGY 1: Eradicate gaps in achievement (graduation, tenure & promotion, professional opportunities, leadership, recognition)
A. Increase undergraduate minority student access to research opportunities on campus.
B. Increase minority graduate student’s access to RFP’s (Laurie, could you add more here?)
C. Increase the number of minority graduate and postdoc positions
D. Offer strong seed funding programs that enhance access to and communication of research on diversity and research capacity of researchers from underrepresented groups
E. Promote and support a more diverse group of researchers.
F. Consider diversity as a criteria for participation on review panels for internal award programs
STRATEGY 2: Increase participation in leadership, research, professional development, honors, awards, and scholarships
A. Create a mechanism for tracking undergraduate participation in research by hosting a central “portal” which allows faculty to post research opportunities and invites students to apply and furnish demographic information. Faculty members who are sponsoring student researchers would also use the portal to log students who are working in their labs or on their research projects. This would collect useful data about activity that is already occurring, invite additional undergraduate student research opportunities, and furnish metrics on our progress in providing opportunities to students from underrepresented groups. Student engagement in research at the undergraduate level has been demonstrated to positively impact academic performance, retention, and graduation rates. This suggestion is from Annie Powell, Assistant Professor of Biology, who also forwarded this idea to Brendan and Ute. They may want to add more here.