Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 70.84
Liaison Troy Goodnough
Submission Date June 2, 2015
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University of Minnesota, Morris
PA-7: Support for Future Faculty Diversity

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00 Troy Goodnough
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Office of Sustainability
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Does the institution administer and/or participate in a program or programs to help build a diverse faculty that meet the criteria for this credit?:
Yes

A brief description of the institution’s programs that help increase the diversity of higher education faculty:

Several UMM programs focus on exposing underrepresented students to research opportunities and encouraging them to pursue graduate studies. The Morris HHMI-Pathways to Science, which encourage underrepresented students to participate. We are a member of the "North Star STEM Alliance/LSAMP (Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation)", an NSF-funded program that seeks to increase the success rate of Native American, African American and Hispanic/Latino students in STEM (Science Technology Engineering Math) fields. In addition, we have a STEP program that seeks to encourage Native American students to participate in environmental science research projects. Another program is MMP, the Multi-Ethnic Mentorship program which provides students of color the opportunity to receive a stipend for working with faculty or staff on year-long research projects.

The University of Minnesota, Morris— and the Office for Equity and Diversity (OED) also coordinate the Diversity Pre-Doctoral Teaching Fellowship Program which provides U of MN doctoral candidates the opportunity to teach, write their dissertation, and be mentored by senior faculty. Fellows will teach one course per semester, continue working on their dissertation research and writing, and participate actively in faculty activities including discipline meetings, division meetings, campus events, etc. Fellows would typically teach an existing UMM lower division course (commonly taught at many institutions) for the first semester, and one at the upper division level (often related to their dissertation or research interests) for the second semester.


The website URL where more information about the faculty diversity program(s) is available :
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