Pew Midstates Science and Mathematics Consortium

1. PewMidstates Science and Mathematics Consortium • Founded 1988 with a series of Grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts (one of 7) • Reformulated and became self-funding 1998 • Only still functioning of the original 7 consortia • Minimally staffed with an office on one of the liberal arts college campuses (Macalester, Hope, Grinnell) • Annual institutional membership of about $12,000

2. PewMidstates Science and Mathematics Consortium Liberal Arts Colleges Augustana College Beloit College Carleton College Carthage College Colorado College Grinnell College GustavusAdolphus College Hope College Kalamazoo College Knox College Lawrence University Luther College Macalester College Rhodes College St Olaf College Trinity University Research Universities University of Chicago Washington University

3. Activities • Undergraduate Research Symposia • Faculty Development Workshops • Short Term Consultations • Speakers Bureau

4. UndergraduateResearch Symposia • Biological Sciences, Washington University—October 28-29, 2011 • Physical Sciences, University Of Chicago—November 4-5, 2011

5. Faculty Development Workshops • New Faculty Workshop - Strategic Planning for Early Career Success • Moving Campus Sustainability Forward Through Collaborative Projects • Sharing Best Practices for Serving Students and Faculty at Science and Math Teaching and Learning Centers

6. Short Term Consultations The purpose of this Program is to encourage and support collaborations involving either two individuals, a small group, or two departments. Projects might involve sharing information, instrumentation and facilities or expertise among the faculty members of the Consortium. The Program grants funds for faculty in a particular area to visit a member campus to: • present a seminar, • participate as an outside examiner in a senior thesis exam, • demonstrate a laboratory technique suitable to an undergraduate laboratory, or • advise on equipment purchases or curriculum changes.

7. Midstates Science and MathematicsConsortium Karen Nordell Pearson, Program Director http://www.mathsciconsortium.org/

8. CFD • Founded as Consortium for a Stronger Minority Presence in 1987 with membership of about 15 national liberal arts colleges • Originally Included Student Recruitment and Fellowship Programs • Today the program completely focuses upon Fellowships with membership of 40 liberal arts colleges

9. Goals of the CFD Program The Consortium is committed to increasing the diversity of students, faculty members and curricular offerings at liberal arts colleges with a particular focus on enhancing the diversity of faculty members and of applicants for faculty positions. The Consortium was founded as an association of liberal arts colleges committed to strengthening the ethnic diversity of students and of faculty members at liberal arts colleges.

10. CFD Membership • Institutions pay a modest annual fee for administrative support, advertising, and annual meeting costs. • Applications are submitted electronically to DePauw University which acts as the application coordinator for the Consortium. DePauw shares all applications with each of the Consortium member schools. Each Consortium member school handles the interview and selection process in accordance with its own internal selection processes. • Member colleges pay the entire cost of interviewing, salary and benefits, and professional development support for fellows who are appointed.

11. CFD Applications • In recent years we have received about 200-350 applications each year and appointed about 25-50 fellows at member institutions. • Fall 2011 (32 fellows) • Fall 2010 (32 fellows) • Fall 2009 (29 fellows) • Fall 2008 (49 fellows) • Fall 2007 (36 fellows) • Fall 2006 (40 fellows) • Fall 2005 (28 fellows)

12. CFD Fellowships • Applications are invited in all disciplines of the liberal arts and engineering. • Recipients should have no more than five years of teaching or relevant experience before holding a fellowship. • Dissertation completion and postdoctoral fellowship awards are available.

13. CFD Fellowships • Colleges provide mentors for Fellows • A Mentoring Guide • CFD hosts an annual meeting of fellows and deans at a member campus.

14. The early goals of the Consortium with regard to faculty diversity included encouraging U.S. citizens who are members of under-represented minority groups to complete their graduate programs and to consider faculty employment in liberal arts colleges. The Consortium now invites applications for dissertation fellowships and post-doctoral fellowships from those who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents who will contribute to increasing the diversity of member colleges by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximizing the educational benefits of diversity and/or increasing the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of students. Goals of the CFD Program

15. Bard College of Simons Rock Bowdoin College Bryn Mawr College Carleton College Centre College College of Wooster, The Colorado College Denison University DePauw University Dickinson College Gettysburg College Goucher College Grinnell College Hamilton College Harvey Mudd College Haverford College Hobart and William Smith Colleges CFD Member Institutions

16. Lafayette College Lawrence University Luther College Macalester College Mount Holyoke College Muhlenberg College New College of Florida Oberlin College Pomona College Reed College Rhodes College University of Richmond Ripon College Scripps College Skidmore College Smith College Southwestern University St. Olaf College Swarthmore College Trinity College, Hartford CT Vassar College Wellesley College Willamette University CFD Member Institutions

17. Host Institution for CFD DePauw University (previously Grinnell, Swarthmore) e-mail:jgriswold@depauw.edu Academic Affairs Office phone: 765-658-6595 305 Harrison Hall fax: 765-658-4553 7 E. Larabee Street Greencastle, IN 46135 website: http://www.depauw.edu/admin/acadaffairs/cfd/

18. Commonalities • Focused on a defined mission • Have become self supporting • Minimal administration and overhead • Evolved over time as context and needs changed • Membership has evolved.