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About
Goal 3: Objective 3.4
Goal 3: Expand, Diversify, and Support Our Community
Objective 3.4: Prepare more students from diverse backgrounds to become the next generation of professional leaders and scholars in health and human development.
Action Item 3.4.1
Implement a holistic review process that better recognizes the potential of all prospective HHD applicants in the awarding of graduate fellowships.
- Implementation Tasks
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- Develop and pilot a rubric to evaluate nominees for graduate fellowships (University Graduate Fellowships, Distinguished Graduate Fellowships, Bunton-Waller Assistantships, Graham Fellowships) with a subcommittee of Graduate Professors-in-Charge
- Evaluate use of rubric as part of holistic review in awarding graduate fellowships
- Distribute rubric and process to full group of Graduate Professors-in-Charge.
- Award all fellowships based on holistic review
- Responsible party
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Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
- Metrics
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Increased number of fellowship offers extended to diverse candidates.
- Start and end dates
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Spring 2021-Spring 2023 (all fellowships awarded based on holistic review), then ongoing.
Action Item 3.4.2
Evolve graduate program admission criteria toward being based on a holistic review process that better recognizes the potential of all prospective HHD applicants.
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- Create a time-limited Task Force comprised of Graduate Professors-In-Charge, Unit Graduate Admissions Chairs, Graduate Students/HHD Reps from the Graduate Student Council to review progressive holistic graduate admissions approaches
- Task Force presents recommendations on best practices for holistic review to the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education and Unit Leadership.
- Requirement set by Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education for all programs to integrate a potentially flexible, minimum subset of best practices on a set timeline.
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Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education and Unit Heads charge to Graduate program directors and Graduate Admissions Committee Chairs.
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All graduate programs integrate some holistic review best practices into their graduate application review processes.
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Fall 2022-Spring 2023 (Task Force), implementation Fall 2023 - ongoing.
Action Item 3.4.3
Create resources that support and incentivize pursuit of training grants and related extramural funding opportunities (R25, diversity supplements, foundation grants) that incorporate a focus on diversity
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- Offer a college-provided stipend bonus for extramurally funded training grant postdoctoral fellowship slots that are reserved for candidates from diverse backgrounds.
- Develop a course-release program to support faculty pursuit of external funding that is geared to increasing the diversity of HHD undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, and graduate students.
- Provide central support and faculty releases needed to assure HHD’s participation in the Partnership for Faculty Diversity post-doctoral fellowship program.
- Responsible Party
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Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education and he Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and Outreach.
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Mechanisms developed and widely publicized to faculty and applications for external funding to support training initiatives with some focus on educating students form diverse backgrounds up 50% during this five-year period compared to the past five-year period.
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Spring 2021- Fall 2023
Action item 3.4.4
Coordinate efforts across individual graduate programs throughout HHD’s academic units to reach and interest applicants from under-represented groups.
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- Bring all academic unit stakeholders together at least twice per year to share successful local practices
- Explore construction of a collaborative outreach model across academic units, coordinated centrally
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Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education, Graduate Professors in Charge, and the Office for Diversity and Inclusion
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Regular meetings established consensus reached on value of pursuing aspects of outreach centrally.
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Fall 2022 – ongoing.
Action Item 3.4.5
Develop a college-level, cross-program peer support network(s) for graduate students and postdocs from diverse backgrounds.
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- Engage graduate student community (through Graduate Student Council and Academic Program student groups) and college post-doc community (through direct outreach) in a process to determine best structure for peer-support network
- Create and resource graduate/postdoc cross-program peer-support-network(s) for HHD graduate students and postdocs from diverse backgrounds to meet, create community, support scholarship and advance professionalism.
- Develop strategy to collect feedback from participants annually.
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Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education and Diversity and Inclusion Office
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A standing program is established for HHD graduate students and postdocs, to begin in Fall 2022.
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Fall 2022 - ongoing
Key Performance Indicators
Increased numbers of students from under-represented minority groups admitted to HHD’s graduate programs and increased sense of community among graduate students from diverse backgrounds across our programs.