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See more from this Session: Geoscience Diversity 2008: Status, Strategies, and Successful Models I
Abstract:
Comparisons of data from selected AGEP institutions for academic years 2000/01 and 2006/07 indicate that the number of underrepresented minorities (URM) enrolled in geosciences-related graduate programs (including Earth, Atmospherics, and Ocean Sciences and Chemistry) is increasing. While the numbers are small, a selected number of institutions report increases in the number of PhDs awarded in these geosciences-related fields for this same time period.
Another major graduate school diversity effort is the Council of Graduate Schools PhD Completion Project. CGS is working with academic institutions (including some of the AGEPs) to create intervention strategies and to examine the doctoral completion rates and attrition patterns. Early CGS data indicates that the seven-year PhD completion rate for URM in the physical sciences and mathematics is about 48% and the ten-year PhD completion rate in these fields is a little over 54%. More information and data about both of these initiatives can be located at on the WWW at http://nsfagep.org and http://www.phdcompletion.org .
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See more from this Session: Geoscience Diversity 2008: Status, Strategies, and Successful Models I