Diversity Team Strategic Plan

August 28, 2014

Vision: NM EPSCoR Diversity Team’s vision is to have New Mexico’s STEM population mimic New Mexico’s general population.

Mission: NM EPSCoR Diversity Team’s mission is to increase the F/URM participation within all NM EPSCoR components.

Goal: NM EPSCoR Diversity Team’s goal is to have at least 50% F/URM participants and external engagement in all NM EPSCoR components by May 31, 2018 with priority placed on STEMAP undergraduates.

Outcomes: Graduation, enter higher degree, and/or enter workforce

Objective One

Strategies

Tasks

Person Responsible & Due Date

Retain undergraduates through enhanced mentorship capabilities of all five (5) STEMAP Research Teams’ faculty with 75% participation rate once a year / 1.1) Create a training for NM EPSCoR researchers, that includes:
- Tips on hosting students
- Importance of mentoring
- Tips on mentoring
- Cultural awareness
- Bias / Research best practices & existing programs
-What is happening locally now?
-Talk to UNM Mentor Institute / Chelsea – December 2014
Define training content
-Share/panel webinar / Mary Jo with Team – March 2015
Get buy in from STEMAP Research Teams / Mary Jo – September/October 2014
Deliver training / ?? - April 2015
Evaluate & report / Kirk – May 2015
1.2) Create an “Excellent Mentor” brand / Encourage faculty to apply for the:
1) Presidential Award for Mentoring (national) by October 3 with nomination
2) Impact Award (NM) for women by September 15 – peer mentoring, community involvement, working with F/URM, and letters of recommendation / Mary Jo – send out Presidential Award information by August 31, 2014
Irene – start NM Impact Award nomination for Laura Crossey September 15, 2014
Students know who the good mentors are - STEMAP focus group or survey on what makes a good mentor? What do they want? What has lead to their success?
- Create a list of possible characteristics
- Could tie into webinar / Chelsea – Spring 2015
Videos of students & faculty - “who mentored me? Why did I get interested in STEM? Here is what my professor did that mattered?” and share on YouTube
- Future: have videos between mentors & mentees / Alice – Spring 2015
Improve understanding of what motivates faculty to be mentors to market and brand / Alice – February 2015
Work on branding / Alice – Summer 2015
1.3) Partner with FLPDI / Work to include mentoring and advising in FLPDI curriculum
- Last face to face to include students’ voice / Dana - by April 2015

Objective Two

Strategies

Tasks

Person Responsible & Due Date

Retain undergraduates through an enhanced NM EPSCoR support system of 45 STEMAP students by May 2018. / 2.1) Create bigger splash for end of the Summer STEMAP presentation
-Need bigger crowd & more celebration / Create schedule of day / Chelsea – Mid of July 2014
Encourage students to invite family
-Send printed invitations / Chelsea – Beginning of July 2014
Make student presentations available on YouTube channel / Natalie & Chelsea – end of August 2014
2.2) Build competitive STEMAP student research presentations / Explicitly mentor and coach students on how to present – How can you make great presentations / Natalie – June 2014
Invite SACNAS Gabe & Maggie and AISES w/ their rubric so they can make recommendations on where the students can improve / Chelsea & Mary Jo – Beginning of July
Continue to work with students on building their presentations / Natalie & Chelsea – before October 16, 2014
Students present at their campuses / Chelsea – by end of Fall 2014
2.3) Provide conference travel opportunities / Provide a stipend for travel / NM EPSCoR – Fall 2014
Create a list of NM opportunities:
- NM AMP, 1st Friday of October, Oct. 3
- NMAS, 1st week of Nov. 11/1 / Chelsea – Fall 2014
Create a list of national opportunities:
- SACNAS, Oct. 16-18
- AISES, Nov. 13-15 / Chelsea – Fall 2014
Market to bigger audience for Joint Meeting
-Listservs / Team & Natalie – by October 6, 2014
Coordinate student travel to conference
- Leveraging/looking at Dr. Khraishi’s (UNM Mechanical Engineering) model for sending students to Regional Conferences / Chelsea – Fall 2014
STEMAP students could recruit & bring another student to opportunities
- Take a look at NM EPSCoR’s budget
-NM AMP
- Joint Meeting
- All Hands in Spring
- NMT Undergraduate Research Conference
- Any schools that have research conferences / Chelsea – Fall 2014
2.4) Create academic year program for students / Research best practices / Chelsea – July 2014
Create webinars on topics / Chelsea – August 2014
Encourage students to become recruiters / Chelsea – Fall 2014
Focus groups
- What are the students plan after STEMAP?
- What are your plans?
- How can we work with you?
- What was your experience with STEMAP? / Alice & Chelsea – Spring 2015
2.5) Track STEMAP students / Sgrouples/Google+ group / Chelsea – June 2014
Evaluation from Kirk
- Follow up 6-8 months later / Kirk
2.6) Provide more research experience / Inventory of existing undergraduate research opportunities in NM and national / Irene & Chelsea (share inventory with Irene) – November 2014
Share info with NM undergraduates about research opportunities in addition to STEMAP / Chelsea – November 2014
Leverage NM STEM Ed.org / Phyllis to connect to e-stem community
2.7) Create a sense of community with/for students / Sgrouples/Google+ group / Chelsea – June 2014
Lunch w/ students – once a summer & three rest of the year
Use Google Hangout
- Santa Fe: Alice could do a lunch with an entrepreneur
- ABQ: SBC could talk about National Lab work
- Las Cruces: Pete Lammers could talk about being a researcher & being in industry / Chelsea – June & July 2014
Chelsea & Alice – Spring 2014
Introduce students to Diversity Team and NM EPSCoR people
- Pre get together with students 11/1
- Special table at lunch / Team – November 1

Objective Three

Strategies

Tasks

Person Responsible & Due Date

3) Connect with 75 F/URM undergraduates a year for STEMAP, UVMN & Research Teams. / 3.1) Identify types of recruitment / Research effective recruitment tactics / Chelsea & Phyllis – September 2014
Talk to others about best practices
- exhibition booth or table at major academic and regional conferences (ACS, MRS, etc.) / Chelsea & Phyllis – by September 2014
Review past recruitment tactics
- SFCC (Phyllis) did this very well / Chelsea & Phyllis – August 2014
Create document with list of tactics
- Face to Face
- Webinars
- NM EPSCoR people / Chelsea & Phyllis – October 2014
3.2) Language & Images
- Might be making sure that there are no barriers (gender bias, etc)
- “Right way to recruit” after figuring out avenues of recruitment
- Language use in NM EPSCoR materials are well intentioned but may not be effective
- Language will be different for different avenues / Alice & Team – September 2014
3.3) Intentional partnership with FLPDI / Work with FLPDI to create a network for recruiting / Dana & Phyllis – Fall 2014 & Spring 2015
3.4) Identify & disseminate opportunities for NM EPSCoR recruitment / Keep updated opportunities information on Dropbox / Chelsea – August 2014
Talk to Research Teams about opportunities / Mary Jo – Fall 2014
Disseminate opportunities
- nmstemed.org / Chelsea (stemed.org) – Fall 2014
Team – Fall 2014 & Spring 2015
3.5) Develop STEMAP calendar / Create STEMAP calendar with types of recruitment and opportunities for recruitment / Chelsea – July 2014