A partnership between:■ IGERT National Recruitment Staff■ Each IGERT Recruitment Effort

Note: INRP will not replace current recruitment efforts

IGERT National Recruitment Program(INRP)

Provide effective liaison services to:■ All IGERT Programs■ Minority Serving Institutions and

Organizations

■ Potential Students

IGERT National Recruitment Program (INRP)

JAMES A. TEERI, Director

SANDRA H. THOMAS, Senior Administrator

ALLYSON FAUVER, Program Coordinator

CHRIS CASH, Student Advisor

CHRIS BREHME, Webmaster

INRP Staff:

ANSLEY ABRAHAM Director, SREB Scholars Program

BARBARA SHERRY IGERT PI, North Carolina State University

EMORCIA HILL Director, Excellence Through Diversity Program, NE

Board of Higher Ed.

IAN HARRISON IGERT PI, University of Virginia

MARGARET DANIELS TYLER Executive Director, Gates Millennium

Scholars Program

MARK HAY Signals in the Sea, Georgia Institute or Technology

RICHARD GROSBERG IGERT PI, UC-Davis

SUSAN BRANTELY IGERT PI, Pennsylvania State University

THERESA A. MALDONADO Associate VP for Research, University of

Texas, Arlington

INRP Advisory Committee:

Outreach to:■ Students, including those in established women/minority programs

in research universities■ Minority serving organizations

Establish and maintain: ■ Interactive website and database to support

IGERT faculty and potential applicant linkage

IGERT National Recruitment Program Strategies:

■ Alliance for Success Institutions■ American Indian Science and Engineering Society■ Black Graduate Student Association (Howard University)■ Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools■ Minority Access, Inc.■ Model Institutions for Excellence (MIE)■ National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering

and Science, Inc. (gem)■ National Minority Research Symposium■ National Physical Science Consortium■ Science and Engineering Alliance, Inc. (SEA)■ Scientists for the 21st Century: Biomedical Research and Training

Opportunities for Minorities (NIH)■ Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS)■ Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in the

Sciences (SACNAS)■ Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)

Examples of Minority Undergraduate Programs

■ Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)

■ Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP)

■ Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP)

■ Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP)

■ Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology (UMEB)

NSF Programs that Prepare Minority Undergraduates for Graduate School

■ Download from: www.collegeboard.org

Priming the Pump: Strategies for Increasing the Achievement of Underrepresented Minority

Undergraduates

■ REU-type programs are very effective recruiting methods.

■ Students seek a “caring and nurturing” environment.

■ IGERT needs to demonstrate to students that it has a caring staff.

■ Students need to know that they will be supported in many ways.

■ Recruitment is not a one visit event; it must be ongoing to

demonstrate a caring and nurturing environment.

Recruiting to IGERT

Goals:

■ Help locate and recruit qualified students, including women and minorities.

■ Design a generic recruitment package for all IGERT programs.

■ Contact each IGERT to offer assistance and solicit advice.

■ Identify a subset of IGERTs to work intensively on

recruitment.

■ Identify appropriate contacts and contact information for

each IGERT.

■ Develop a brief recruitment portfolio for each IGERT.

Services for All IGERT Programs

Goals:

■ Help MSI’s & MSO’s find appropriate IGERTs for their

students

■ Identify contacts in minority training community

■ Educate and assist MSI’s with IGERT opportunities

■ Educate and assist MSO’s with IGERT opportunities

Services for Minority Serving Institutions and Organizations

Goals:

■ Help students find appropriate IGERT programs

■ Identify undergraduates with interests appropriate

to IGERTs

■ Educate these students about IGERT & career

opportunities

■ Link individual students with appropriate IGERTs

■ Develop and implement retention assistance

strategy

including routine follow up with students and IGERT

programs

Services for Potential Students

A Work in Progress–All Suggestions Welcome!

IGERT National Recruitment Program: