Transcript Slide 1

The New Mexico Alliance for Graduate
Education and the Professoriate:
Statistical Counterflow
David Johnson
Dean of Graduate Studies
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
[email protected]
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Graduate School decision-makers include:
• Graduate school and Academic Deans, Provosts and other
administrators
• STEM Departmental Chairs
• STEM Departmental Admissions and Selection Committees
• STEM Departmental Graduate Program Directors or Advisors
• STEM Faculty
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The New Mexico Alliance:
• New Mexico State University (NMSU; lead)
• University of New Mexico (UNM)
• New Mexico Tech (NMT)
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UNM
NMT
NMSU
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About New Mexico Tech:
• Located in Socorro, New Mexico at the center of an
hispanic majority state
• Socorro is a small (~10,000 pop.) community with
historical ties to mining.
• Nearest metropolitan center is Albuquerque @ ~75
miles
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• New Mexico Tech is small with
~2,000 students of which ~500 are
graduate students.
• Institute of Engineering and Science
– particularly noted for its doctoral
programs in hydrology and
astrophysics.
• Change at NMT has been “attenuated”
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Departmental Admissions/Selection Committees – the
Practice at New Mexico Tech
NMT is a small school with many fewer administrative
layers.
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Admissions/Selection Committees
• Departments make admissions decisions
employing a wide variety of approaches.
• How do we maximize consideration of qualified
underrepresented minority applicants?
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• Meet with departments/committees – regularly
• Steering Committee as advocates for UM admission
• Financial Incentives – for the student and for the
departmental participation in UM recruitment.
• Other incentives – Support letters for “Criterion 2”
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Practically, how can we get URM applications in front
of faculty and departments?
… and how can departments be “encouraged” to give
these applications serious consideration?
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The Graduate Office pre-screens UM applications
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Collect the data:
• Number of UM applications to each department
• UM Percentage admitted
• UM Percentage matriculated
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Distribute the (disaggregated) data:
• To the departments
• Cc the provost
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