STEM Education Institute Tuesday Seminar
"NEAGEP Initiatives and Successes: No Longer a Dream Deferred," with Marlina Duncan of the Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and Professoriate, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NEAGEP) is a unique coalition of large and small, public and private Research Extensive Alliance Institutions lead by the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The goal of the NEAGEP is to increase the number of domestic students receiving doctoral degrees and entering the professoriate in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). We are particularly interested in recruiting, supporting and mentoring students of those population groups underrepresented in STEM fields (i.e., African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders).
The original Alliance Institutions included UMass Amherst, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Penn State and Rutgers Universities. In 2004-05 (NEAGEP Phase 2), five additional Alliance Institutions were added (the Universities of Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont).
The Alliance Institutions have complementary research strengths and cover a broad spectrum of disciplines. The impressive array of internationally recognized programs available in the Alliance matches the wide range of interests of students from our Partner Institutions, Bennett College, Jackson State University, Lincoln University, Medgar Evers College and the University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez. We work together to match students with appropriate programs and to find them excellent mentors.