Emory Initiative to Maximize Student Development

项目总结 这项最大限度地扩大学生多样性的新倡议(IMSD)的目标是在现有的IMSD的基础上 埃默里大学的项目，以增加科学劳动力的多样性。尽管多年来 年，更加注重多样性、入学率和毕业率 生物和行为科学的本科生和研究生学位课程明显低于 在普通人群中。埃默里大学是一所高评级的教学和研究机构，拥有超过14,200名学生 位于佐治亚州亚特兰大的学生。埃默里招聘、留住和毕业多元化人才的记录 学生是有意义的。在每个研究生入学班级中，大约15%的学生人数偏低(UR)； 本科生比例为20%，自90年代初以来翻了一番。S。生物医学和行为科学 埃默里大学各系在最近一年向俄勒冈大学的学生授予了1,667个学士学位、805个硕士学位和149个博士学位 十五年的时间。在2013年仅获得三年支持后，埃默里的最大化 学生发展(IMSD)计划在加强指导方面取得了重大进展 并为本科生和研究生提供职业发展和支持。长的- Emory IMSD的学期目标是增加UR学生获得生物医学博士学位的平均数量 通过将至少三分之二的IMSD本科生安排在研究生课程中并毕业 90%的IMSD研究生研究员，并将他们安排在强有力的博士后职位。在这份新的IMSD建议书中， 我们寻求继续我们的成功，并进一步加强埃默里管理学院的影响，因为我们制定了一个包容性的 社区和通过三个具体目标的指导和职业发展规划的连续体 以及从以前的领导层过渡到新的领导班子的结构化计划。目标1将继续 努力建立国际管理学院本科生学习社区。我们将增加埃默里的数量 UR主修生物医学/行为/定量科学的本科生，获得 一个与科学相关的领域，每年增加到12个。这将是我们十年平均水平的两倍多，当时 Emory IMSD计划首次提出(2003-2012年，每年4.8项)，消除所有人口差异。 AIM 2将加强和建立一个国际管理学院研究生的学习社区。通过这些努力，我们将 在五年内再招收40名UR博士生，其中90%以上完成博士学位。最后，《目标3》将 为埃默里社区的教师和研究生提供正式的指导培训 通过继续努力发展一个导师社区，亚特兰大导师协会 (ASOM)，具有适用于所有级别的可转让技能，并擅长处理多样性问题。这些目标将具有 在我们以往成功的基础上，创建一个包容和整合的社区，从而产生重大影响 促进埃默里大学学习文化的本科生学者、研究生研究员和项目教员 并增加了科学工作者队伍的多样性。

PROJECT SUMMARY The goal of this new Initiative to Maximize Student Diversity (IMSD) proposal is to build on an existing IMSD program at Emory University to increase the diversity of the scientific workforce. In spite of many years of increased focus on diversity, the rate of enrollment and graduation of under-represented (UR) students in undergraduate and graduate degree programs in the biological and behavioral sciences is markedly lower that of the general population. Emory University is a highly rated teaching and research institution with over 14,200 students that is located in Atlanta, Georgia. Emory’s record of recruiting, retaining and graduating diverse students is significant. Approximately 15% of each entering graduate class is underrepresented (UR); undergraduate classes are 20%, having doubled since the early 90’s. The biomedical and behavioral science departments at Emory awarded 1,667 BS, 805 MS and 149 PhD degrees to UR students in the most recent fifteen-year period. After receiving only three years of support in 2013, Emory’s Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) program has made significant progress towards enhancing the mentoring environment and providing career development and support to undergraduate and graduate students. The long- term goal of the Emory IMSD is to increase the average number of UR students obtaining PhDs in the biomedical sciences by placing at least two-thirds of IMSD Undergraduate Scholars in graduate programs and graduating 90% of IMSD Graduate Fellows and placing them in strong postdoctoral positions. In this new IMSD proposal, we seek to continue our success and further enhance the impact of the Emory IMSD as we develop an inclusive community and a continuum of mentoring and career development programming via three specific aims and a structured plan to transition from the prior leadership to a new leadership team. Aim 1 will continue with efforts to build a learning community of IMSD Undergraduate Scholars. We will increase the number of Emory undergraduate UR students majoring in the biomedical/behavioral/quantitative sciences who receive a Ph.D. in a science-related field to 12 per year. This will more than double our ten-year average that existed when the Emory IMSD program was first proposed (4.8 per year from 2003-2012) and remove all demographic disparity. Aim 2 will enhance and build a learning community of IMSD Graduate Fellows. Through these efforts, we will recruit 40 additional UR PhD students over five years, with over 90% completing the PhD. Finally, Aim 3 will provide formal training in mentoring for both faculty and graduate students in the Emory community and the greater Atlanta area by continuing efforts to develop a community of mentors, the Atlanta Society of Mentors (ASOM), with transferable skills applicable at all levels and adept in issues of diversity. These aims will have significant impact by building on our prior success with creating an inclusive and integrated community of undergraduate scholars, graduate fellows and program faculty that enhances the culture of learning at Emory University and increases diversity within the scientific workforce.