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Description
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Unified Plan of the Office of Outreach for increasing
the numbers of underrepresented and disadvantaged students entering
doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences.
The University of North
Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth Graduate School of Biomedical
Sciences has created a "K-16 and beyond" system of recruitment
and retention of a diverse graduate student population that has enabled
it to become the leading health science center in Texas in graduate
minority enrollment. By coordinating all of its programs within the
Office of Outreach, it has efficiently created an Adopt-a-School program
for K-12 students, followed by DOE- and NIH-funded college programs, and
NIH-funded "bridge" programs that allow students to remain in
contact with the institution throughout their education. The program
engages faculty as mentors of students throughout their passage through
school, and encourages students to become involved in the process as
well. Hence, students become role models for others at earlier stages in
the process, and learn to become effective mentors when they graduate to
faculty positions themselves. The success of this approach is
demonstrated not only in the numbers of students graduating from the
program, but also by its recognition by the NIH-affiliate Minority
Access, Inc. as a "Role Model Institution" in 2000, and as a
recipient of the White House Presidential Award for Excellence in
Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, administered by the
National Science Foundation, in 2001.
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Contact
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Robert Kaman, JD, Ph.D
Assistant Dean and Director of Outreach
University of North Texas Health Science Center - Fort Worth
Office of Outreach, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
3500 Camp Bowie Blvd.
Fort Worth, TX 76107
Phone: (817) 735-2670
Email: kamanr@hsc.unt.edu
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