About PROMISE: Maryland's AGEP

ABOUT AGEP

The National Science Foundation's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program is intended to increase significantly the number of domestic students receiving doctoral degrees in the sciences, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), with special emphasis on those population groups underrepresented in these fields (i.e., African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders). In addition, AGEP is particularly interested in increasing the number of minorities who will enter the professoriate in these disciplines. Specific objectives of the AGEP program are (1) to develop and implement innovative models for recruiting, mentoring, and retaining minority students in STEM doctoral programs, and (2) to develop effective strategies for identifying and supporting underrepresented minorities who want to pursue academic careers.

ABOUT PROMISE: Maryland's AGEP

PROMISE: Maryland's AGEP is an alliance of the three public research universities in Maryland, led by UMBC, dedicated to the increasing the number and diversity of Ph.D. graduates in the sciences and engineering who go on to academic careers. AGEP is a program of the National Science Foundation.

McNair Grad School Fair at UMBC 9/17. Please register & recruit

posted Aug 12, 2011 10:26 AM by PROMISE: Maryland's AGEP
On behalf of the McNair Scholars Program at UMBC, I am sharing information about the Graduate School Fair that will take place during UMBC's annual McNair conference in September. We invite you to register for a table to recruit students for your graduate programs.  To date, we have students registered from universities in Maryland, Illinois, California, Texas, New Jersey, and West Virginia.  There are students who are studying STEM disciplines, including the Social Sciences.  Attached, you will find the Graduate School Fair's  "Participant Registration Form" for the conference.  It is also available on McNair's conference website at www.umbc.edu/mcnair/2011conference.  The Graduate Fair is on Saturday, September 19, 2011.  Come to Baltimore! Visit our campus and recruit students for yours. We hope that you will join us!