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 djohnson@nmt.edu 27-Jan-06

2. 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 27-Jan-06

3. The New Mexico Alliance: New Mexico State University (NMSU; lead) University of New Mexico (UNM) New Mexico Tech (NMT)

4. 27-Jan-06 NMSU UNM NMT

5. 27-Jan-06 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

6. 27-Jan-06 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”

7. Departmental Admissions/Selection Committees – the Practice at New Mexico Tech NMT is a small school with many fewer administrative layers. 27-Jan-06

8. Admissions/Selection Committees Departments make admissions decisions employing a wide variety of approaches. How do we maximize consideration of qualified underrepresented minority applicants?

9. 27-Jan-06 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”

10. 27-Jan-06 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?

11. 27-Jan-06 The Graduate Office pre-screens UM applications

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13. Collect the data: Number of UM applications to each department UM Percentage admitted UM Percentage matriculated

14. 27-Jan-06 Distribute the (disaggregated) data: To the departments Cc the provost