Snapshots of Excellence National AGEP Conference Chicago, IL March 19, 2009 Colette Patt, Frances Leslie, Christine Des Jarlais, and Do Quyen Tran-Taylor.

Snapshots of Excellence

National AGEP Conference

Chicago, IL

March 19, 2009

Colette Patt, Frances Leslie, Christine Des Jarlais, and Do Quyen Tran-Taylor

Special thanks to Mark Westlye and Abram Rosenblatt

Overview of the University of California System

• 10 campuses

• Varying sizes and rankings

• Awarded AGEP grant in 2000

What’s Worked for UC

• UC system-wide internal alliance collaboration and cooperation

• Overarching activities, program, information sharing

• Campus innovation: investment, autonomy, responsibility

Institutional Infrastructure/Collaboration

• Collaboration and Integration Across 10 Research 1 Campuses

• Builds on centralized structure UCOP and campus Co-PIs

• Good of the whole system

• Sharing funds, data, best-practices

Alliance-wide Collaborations

• UC-CSU Faculty Summit to increase URM students entering UC doctoral programs

• MOU with both California LSAMPs: data-sharing, and collaborative programming

• HBCU Initiative: UCSB, UCLA• UCSF Post-doc Bootcamp• UC Edge Day at UCLA• Sharing best practices across the Alliance: e.g.,

Summer Bridge for entering PhD students, Diversity Coordinators at UCB, UCSD, and UCSB

Programmatic Highlights

• UC San Diego’s Diversity Outreach Collaboration program

• UC Berkeley Fellows Program• UC Irvine mental health study; ADVANCE

collaboration• Riverside quintupled applications + admits

  1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

Apps 15 12 19 26 22 40 39 72 91 81 83 101

Admits 6 4 9 12 15 18 28 35 44 38 38 45

URM STEM Graduate Applications and Admissions at UC Riverside

UC AGEP STEM Graduate NumbersSystemwide (10 Campus Totals)

US Citizens & Permanent Residents2007-2008

  Applications AdmitsNew Enrollments

Total Enrollments

PhDs Awarded

URM 2,107 759 419 1,152 118

Non-URM 20,324 8,227 2,610 11,534 1,549

Total 22,431 8,986 3,029 12,686 1,667

URM includes African American, Chicano/Latino, and Native AmericanNon-URM includes Asian American, White, and Unknown/Decline to State

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Proposition 209 AGEP Phase I AGEP Phase II

New URM STEM Graduate EnrollmentsUniversity of California Systemwide (10 Campuses)

US Citizens & Permanent Residents

Average New URM Enrollment Pre-AGEP: 157 AGEP Phase I: 220 AGEP Phase II: 267

New STEM Graduate EnrollmentsPercent URM of Total US Citizens & Permanent Residents

University of California Systemwide (10 Campuses)

8.7%

11.0%

10.0%

8.7%8.6%

8.9%

8.1%

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7.2%

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1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Proposition 209 AGEP Phase I AGEP Phase II

URM STEM PhDs AwardedUniversity of California Systemwide (10 Campuses)

US Citizens & Permanent Residents

Avg # PhDs Awarded Pre-AGEP: 78 AGEP Phase I: 80 AGEP Phase II: 113

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URM STEM PhDs AwardedPercent URM of Total US Citizens & Permanent Residents

University of California Systemwide (10 Campuses)

5.6%

8.6%

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7.0%

6.9%

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6.9% 7.1%

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1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08

Proposition 209 AGEP Phase I AGEP Phase II

UC Regent’s Task Force on Diversity: Data on URMs

Goals of UC AGEP Phase III

Recruitment• Partner with Minority Serving Institutions

•CSUs; HBCUs; Tribal Colleges

Retention• Summer Bridge programs• Career and personal development programs

CareerTransitions

• PostDoc Bootcamp• Partner with ADVANCE• Partner with CUC

InstitutionalTransformation

• Partnership of all stakeholders within and between UC campuses

Summary of Phase III Program ActivitiesActivity/Program Berkeley Davis Irvine LA Merced Riverside SD SFRecruitment Activities by Students/Faculty x x x x x x x xRecruitment Events Off-site x x x x x x xCampus Visit Days x x x x x x x xGraduate Diversity Advisors x x xWork with Admissions Committees x x x x x xIncoming Graduate Summer Research Program x x x x x x x xCampus Graduate Orientation x x x xAGEP Student Retreat x xConference/Syposium x x xPeer/Faculty Mentoring Program x x x x x xGraduate Workshops x x x x x x x xGraduate Student Travel x x x x x x xGraduate Financial Support (beyond travel) x x x xGraduate Student Organization collaboration x x x x x xAccess to on-campus housing x xPostdoc Recruitment Activities x xPostdoc Workshops x x x x x x xPostdoc Travel (SREB or job search, etc.) x x x x x xFaculty Retention, Workshops, Activities x x x x xCSU campus-to-campus Partnership x x x x x x xHBCU Partnership x x x xHSI Partnership x x x xTribal Colleges Partnership x xCollaboration with other Minority Serving Programs x x x x x xCampus AGEP Advisory Committee x x x x x x x xWeb Presence/Activities x x x x x x x

Financial Threats to Existing Infrastructure

The Perfect Storm

$450M UCBudget

“Challenge”

Suspensionof AGEPFunding

8.7%

11.0%

10.0%

8.7%8.6%

8.9%

8.1%

7.8%8.1%

7.1%

7.2%

8.0%

9.0%

0.0%

2.0%

4.0%

6.0%

8.0%

10.0%

12.0%

1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Proposition 209 AGEP Phase I AGEP Phase II

What will the future hold?

Questions?