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 Multicultural training session presenters
From left to right: Allyson Fauver, Renetta Tull, Sara Xayarath
Hernandez, and DiOnetta Jones
Four expert panelists - invited by Center partner Institute for Broadening Participation (IBP) - have provided the COSEE Network with up-to-date information, practical tools, and strategies for broadening participation in ocean sciences:

Allyson Fauver
A brief diversity briefing

Sara Xayarath Hernandez
Recruitment is about creating an inclusive vision; students need to see themselves as scientists

DiOnetta Jones
Recruitment is important -- retention is critical

Renetta Tull
Retention involves skill-building, support structures, and communication

Speaker videos and powerpoint presentations from the May 2011 Network Meeting are offered here along with related resources for further inquiry and investigation into these topics. Summaries from "breakout sessions" facilitated by each speaker are also provided.

Allyson Fauver
 

Allyson Fauver
Director of Policy and Analysis; Co-PI: Pathways to Ocean Sciences
Institute for Broadening Participation
Video | Presentation (PDF, 1.94 MB) | Breakout Summary (PDF, 68 KB)
A Brief Diversity Briefing. Allyson Fauver opened the Multicultural Training plenary session by introducing the Institute for Broadening Participation’s three guest speakers (see following) and outlining a schedule for the session. She then emphasized the importance of understanding basic diversity-focused concepts (e.g., underrepresented groups, broadening participation, the pipeline), and briefly discussed why diversity in the ocean sciences matters from the perspectives of national STEM competency and Science’s broader impacts on our society.

Resource
Type
Source
"The Diversity Briefing" (Prezi version, up-to-date)
Online Presentation (resource for faculty, admin and program directors; download/share)
Allyson Fauver (IBP)
Online Diversity References Library
Online Resource -Pathways to Science
IBP
Pathways to Ocean Sciences
Website/ Online Resource
IBP
Interrupting Bias in the Faculty Search Process
Film and facilitation guides
ADVANCE Center for Instit. Change (Univ. WA)
IBP Resource Toolbox (scroll to bottom)
Web resource: faculty & students
IBP
Sara Hernandez
 

Sara Xayarath Hernandez
Director of Diversity Programs
Engineering College, Cornell University
Video | Presentation (PDF, 6.11 MB) | Breakout Summary (PDF, 58 KB)
Recruitment is about creating an inclusive vision; students need to see themselves as scientists. In this presentation, Sara Hernandez related strategies to attract, recruit and retain under-represented minorities (URMs) in STEM programs even before they begin to contemplate the "college scene". Sara describes several successful models for engaging students and their families – a crucial component of the engagement process – in STEM activities such as Cornell’s CATALYST Academy for first generation high school students and the Urban Bird Garden. Sara also walked the audience through the American Association for Undergraduate Women’s key recommendations for attracting, retaining, and counteracting biases, which she noted is also highly applicable for URMs and under-represented groups of students.

Resource
Type
Source
Model Program: CATALYST Academy
Website: program description
Univ. MD Baltimore Co.
Model Program: Urban Bird Gardens
Website: program description
Cornell Univ.
Why are there so few women [& minorities] in STEM?
Website; link to article (2010)
American Assoc Undergrad. Women
Project Implicit
Interactive online survey - assess conscious/unconscious bias
Harvard Univ., Univ. of VA, & Univ. of WA
Benefits of the Growth Mindset

Web Resource
Prof. Carol Dweck (psychologist)
Reducing Stereotype Threat

Website and Resource
Profs. C. Good & S. Stroessner (social psychologists)
DiOnetta Jones
 

DiOnetta Jones
Associate Dean and Director
Office of Minority Education, Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Video | Presentation (PDF, 521 KB) | Breakout Summary (PDF, 71 KB)
Recruitment is Important -- Retention is Critical. In this presentation, DiOnetta Jones shares strategies to retain under-represented minorities in college and universities to pursue graduate and professional degrees. She highlights the nationally recognized Meyerhoff Scholars Program that supports URM students to successfully attain advanced degrees in STEM fields, and then walks us through key "lessons learned" from this program that she believes could be translated to other academic settings. 

Resource
Type
Source
Model Program: Meyerhoff Scholars
Website: program description
Univ. MD Baltimore Co.
Boosting Minorities in Science
Scholarly article
F. Hrabowski; Science V331(6014): 125.
Interview with Pres. F. Hrabowski (UMBC)
TV video
CBS (be patient with the commercials!)
Renetta Tull
 

Renetta Tull
Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Development and Director
University of Maryland (UMBC, UM Baltimore, UM College Park) & UMBC Graduate School
Video | Presentation (PDF, 2.78 MB) | Breakout Summary (PDF, 84 KB)
Retention involves skill-building, support structures, and communication. Renetta Tull gave a brief introduction to NSF-funded Alliances for Graduate Education in the Professoriate (AGEP), and how these multi-institutional partnerships guide and support URMs through graduate school and into professional careers as faculty members. This includes collaborating closely with national and regional professional organizations serving URMs (e.g., SACNAS), and providing timely support to help students writing their dissertations (Dissertation House,), on the job market for the first time or presenting at their first professional conference (Southern Regional Educational Board). She concluded with a ‘call to action’ for the COSEE Network. These “Strategic Actions” that have been shown to be successful in AGEP programs across the US including recommendations for recruitment, retention, creating a more inclusive graduate community, and building crucial support structures, such as peer and faculty mentoring programs.

Resource
Type
Source
Alliances for Graduate Edu. in the Professoriate (AGEP)
Website: program description
Hosted by AAAS; funded by NSF
IBP: AGEP Pathways & Connections
Web resource: Explore AGEPs
Institute for Broadening Participation
Model Program: Dissertation House (UMBC)
Website/ Blog
PROMISE AGEP, Univ. MD Baltimore Co.
Model Program: SACNAS
Website
SACNAS: Adv. Hispanics, Chicanos, & Native Americans in Science
Model Program: Instit. on Teaching & Mentoring
Website
Compact for Faculty Diversity