Enhancing Diversity
The Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program, is a nationally recognized program funded by the U.S. Department of Education and it has been in operation at Rutgers University since 1991. The McNair program serves low-income, first generation college students and students from groups historically underrepresented in graduate education that aspire to attain a doctoral degree. The services provided are designed to prepare participants, who have demonstrated academic potential, with the research and scholarship skills necessary for entry into doctoral studies. For more information.
Encouraging Diversity at the Graduate Level: There is an NIH-funded training grant for diversity recruitment: “Initiative to Maximize Student Diversity”.
Rutgers Youth Enjoy Science (RUYES)
Among Rutgers most successful graduate recruitment vehicles has been an undergraduate research program, RISE (Research Intensive Summer Experience) at Rutgers, which brings rising seniors and juniors from across the nation to Rutgers to work with matched faculty mentors for 10 weeks. We have attracted many RISE alumni to apply to Rutgers for PhDs, and a number continued working with their summer mentors.
The Rutgers Youth Enjoy Science (RUYES) program seeks to encourage youth from groups that are underrepresented in the biomedical sciences to pursue cancer research and healthcare careers. RUYES will: engage high school science teachers in mentored cancer research and provide curriculum development support to create novel instructional approaches for teachers to take to classrooms; inspire, motivate and educate high school and undergraduate students through mentored cancer research training, co-curricular support, and professional development activities; Connect with middle school students and their families in their communities through innovative outreach activities to enhance awareness and appreciation of science education and research careers. Participants will engage in research and program related activities for three months per year for two years.
Summer Pipeline to Excellence at Rutgers Graduate (SUPER Grad) program
Summer Pipeline to Excellence at Rutgers Graduate (SUPER Grad) program: SUPER Grad works to assure a diverse student population and launched the summer pipeline that provides first year graduate fellowships for outstanding RiSE alumni. GR2aD also runs professional development programs for our faculty that focus on needs of diverse students and helps faculty identify and compete for minority supplements for grants.
The CURE (Continuing Umbrella for Research Experience) Program at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) provides research training and academic and professional enrichment activities for highly motivated local high school and undergraduate underrepresented minority students.
Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
The Big Ten Academic Alliance Diversity Initiatives is part of a National Research Mentoring Network grant with a mandate to broaden the face of the biomedical, social and behavioral sciences.
The NSF Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (Northeast AGEP), a partnership of 10 research-intensive institutions and 5 minority-serving feeders that develop mechanisms to recruit, support, and mentor underrepresented doctoral students, postdocs and faculty. Post NSF funding, we are collaborating as “NEAGEP Next” on an NIH NRMN pilot to develop multi-institutional virtual mentoring networks for underrepresented women faculty.
The National Name Exchange, a consortium of 55 nationally recognized research institutions which collect and exchange the names of underrepresented undergraduates planning graduate study.
The Institute for Teaching and Mentoring
Graduate Education for Minorities (GEM), a network of universities and companies that partner to provide opportunities for underrepresented minority students to earn fellowship (s for MS and PhD programs in the sciences and engineering.
The Institute for Teaching and Mentoring, the largest annual conference of minority doctoral scholars in the U.S., with the goal of providing strategies for success in graduate school and the professoriate. We select doctoral students and postdocs to participate with full funding.