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The Chicken or the Egg: What Comes First When You Try to Institutionalize Programs?

The Chicken or the Egg: What Comes First When You Try to Institutionalize Programs?. Cinda-Sue Davis Ph.D. University of Michigan Women in Science and Engineering Program . The Evolution of the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP ).

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The Chicken or the Egg: What Comes First When You Try to Institutionalize Programs?

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  1. The Chicken or the Egg: What Comes First When You Try to Institutionalize Programs? Cinda-Sue Davis Ph.D. University of Michigan Women in Science and Engineering Program

  2. The Evolution of the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) • Started in 1989 with 14 URM students in a single college • Focus was on 1st and 2nd year students • Academic year program • Extensive evaluation • Program expanded to include women and then all students • Campus-wide

  3. UROP, Continued Growth • Dedicated staff • Compensation • Peer advising groups • Research seminars • Skill building seminars • Research symposium • Multicultural focus • Currently 1,200 participants

  4. Assessment and Evaluation • Quantitative research: surveys, retention studies • Qualitative research: focus groups, interviews • Experiential sampling studies

  5. The First Step to Institutionalization: Data, Data, Data • Program grounded in early data indicating retention and academic success issues for underrepresented students in STEM fields • Subsequent retention studies, with matched controls, showed program worked • Focus groups, alumni studies, beeper studies followed • Published in peer-reviewed journals

  6. Other Important Factors • Senior leadership for diversity efforts at the highest levels • Good alignment of the program with the mission of the institution • Leveraged outside support and prestige with federal/foundation grants, private gifts, and numerous awards • Collaborative across all schools and colleges • Strategic “marketing” with dynamic leadership

  7. Still Evolving • Should all undergraduate students have this opportunity? • Future research question – what is impact of this program on the faculty? • What can freshmen do in mathematics or physics? • High school component? • Grad student/post-doc training program?

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