Compounding the problem is that minority scientists are often compelled — by their own conscience, surely, but also by colleagues and administrators — to be mentors for other
minority undergraduate and graduate students, Jackson says.
The class is offered to 15
minority undergraduate and graduate students each year.
Not exact matches
Ask for the names of their best
graduate,
undergraduate,
and minority students and contact those
students.
Before going to the campus, talk to other faculty,
graduate students,
and undergraduates about the treatment
and feelings of
minorities on campus.
Producing good - quality
minority undergraduate students in the MSE fields will lead to an increased
minority graduate population
and eventually to a larger pool of
minority potential faculty members to choose from.
For the
undergraduate and graduate students we talked about health disparities
and what they, as
minority students, could bring to the table,» says Banks.
One of the first things that an administrator should ask of a department is baseline data: What has been the
minority representation in a department over the years,
and by this I mean the faculty
and graduate and undergraduate students?
The sessions — one for
graduate students and recent PhDs,
and two for
undergraduate students — aimed to invigorate the research careers of
minority mathematicians
and mathematics faculty at
minority - serving institutions.
Her expertise is in serving
and supporting the success of women
and underrepresented
minority undergraduate students,
graduate students,
and postdoctoral scholars.
While at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Upenyu has worked as an Academic Lead for a Pre-college program serving college - bound
students from
minority backgrounds; Teaching Assistant at
undergraduate and graduate levels;
and Academic Coordinator for the State Department - funded Mandela Washington Fellowship / Young African Leaders Initiative.