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Participating in
GO-MAP Activities
 Graduate Students of Color "Getting Connected" Orientation and Reception 2006
October 19, 2006
The UW Graduate School's
Graduate Opportunities & Minority Achievement Program
(GO-MAP)
presents
"Getting Connected"
Orientation & Reception
4-10
pm
UW Club
A G E N D A
4 pm: Sign-in for orientation
430 pm: Welcome and short program
5 pm: Orientation for new graduate students (RSVP's
appreciated: gomap@u.washington.edu)
7 pm: Reception for new and returning graduate students, and faculty
and staff
Incoming minority graduate students, current minority graduate
students and faculty are invited to GO-MAP’s "Getting Connected" New
Minority Graduate Student Orientation and Fall Reception. "Getting
Connected" supplements departmental orientations and is an
opportunity for incoming minority graduate students to meet current
minority graduate students and faculty from other departments, and
get information about how to survive graduate school. While this
event is geared toward minority and underrepresented students, it is
open to all graduate students. "Getting Connected" will take
place on October 19 at the UW Club from 4-10 pm.
Prospective Student
Days 2007: March 29-30, 2007
Admitted students have the opportunity to get a jumpstart on networking with
faculty and students, familiarize themselves with the campus, get a sense
of the overall UW community, and with greater Seattle. On the first day of
the event, GO-MAP hosts a breakfast and, later on in the day, a welcome
reception for all visiting students, and on the second
day of the event, a luncheon. The admitted prospective students spend most of
visit in their departments visiting with faculty and other graduate students. We
hope that Prospective Student Days will further assist students in the final
stages of their decision-making process and aid in building a graduate student
and faculty campus culture conscious of bridging differences.
GO-MAP would like
to assist departments in bringing students to campus whom they feel will
contribute to the diversity of their department, but who could not
otherwise afford to visit. GO-MAP travel funding is limited; however, once you have identified potential candidates, please
contact us for more information about applying for these funds (206-543-9016 or gomap@u.washington.edu).
More information about Prospective Student Days 2007 will be available soon.
Click
here to see scheduled events
and activities for last year's Prospective Student Days.
Nominating Students for a
GO-MAP Diversity Fellowship
GO-MAP encourages the nomination of students who
have achieved academic merit despite significant social, economic, or
educational challenges in their pursuit of higher education, such as students
who are first-generation to attend college or graduate school, or students whose
educational training has not exposed them to a wide array of resources.
Graduate programs are notified of various
funding opportunities through GO-MAP, and are encouraged to establish
internal guidelines for identifying and nominating potential award recipients.
Calls for diversity fellowship nominations usually go out at the beginning of
January; nomination usually are due to the GO-MAP office by the mid-February. For more information about
nominating a student for a GO-MAP diversity fellowship
and for current year's deadlines, email
gomap@u.washington.edu.
Graduate Opportunity Program Award (GOP RA)
Departments are invited to apply for the Graduate Opportunity Program (GOP)
award, a merit-based research assistantship designed to increase the quality
of education and research at the University of Washington. Since the quality
of graduate programs depends to a great extent upon intellectually talented,
highly motivated, and well prepared students from diverse backgrounds,
departmental awards will be made on a competitive basis to graduate units
seeking assistance in developing a diverse community of scholars and/or
scholarship and research that explores and supports cultural diversity.
Departments selected may award GOP funding to recruit students who have
achieved academic merit despite significant obstacles in their pursuit of
higher education, students who are the first generation to attend college or
graduate school, or students whose educational training has not exposed them
to a wide array of resources. Award recipients must be citizens, immigrants,
or permanent residents of the US, and must be in the first year of graduate
study at the UW.
Applications for
the GOP usually go out in January, with a submission deadline of mid-February.
For more information about the GOP application process, current year's deadline, etc.,
email gomap@u.washington.edu.
National
Name Exchange and Western Name Exchange Consortia
The
National Name
Exchange Program and the
Western Name
Exchange Program are consortia of universities which annually
collect and exchange names of talented underrepresented ethnic minority
students in their junior or senior year of their undergraduate
education. The purpose of these exchanges is to ensure that
participating universities continue to identify a pool of qualified
students who can be recruited to the graduate programs at these
"name-exchanging" institutions. The consortium of universities conducts
other activities consistent with national efforts to increase the
enrollment of traditionally underrepresented peoples in graduate
education.
GO-MAP has maintained and facilitated access to the data bases for both
Exchanges since the mid-1980's and continues to do so.
During Autumn Quarter of each year, GO-MAP
collects and compiles names of participating students for distribution to
graduate programs and departments. We encourage graduate programs
and departments to send specific information packets to prospective
students.
 Name
Exchange Departmental Access and Rapid Response features
The Graduate School would
like to make UW graduate programs and departments aware of a valuable
recruitment tool that will facilitate the outreach to and recruitment of
ethnic minority undergraduate students interested in pursuing graduate
degrees. We hope that by utilizing the Name Exchange Database's
new "departmental access" and "Rapid Response" features, departments can
enhance their efforts to increase the numbers of underrepresented
graduate students at the University of Washington.
1) Units can now establish
departmental profiles, and can have immediate and direct departmental
access to the 2006 Name Exchange database. (There are currently
8,500 minority undergraduates who have already registered!)
Departments can then review these students' profiles, decide which
students meet their particular unit's admissions requirements, and
strategically contact only those students on whom they would like to
concentrate their recruitment efforts.
To establish your
departmental profile, go to
http://www.grad.washington.edu/exchrde/dept/default.asp and register
using the invitation code. Departments must call GO-MAP
(3-9016) to receive the invitation code needed to gain access to the
Name Exchange database. For security reasons, we can not give the access
code out via email.
2) Beginning in Spring 2007,
the Name Exchange Database's new Rapid Response feature will
facilitate the timely and immediate dissemination of prospective student
contact information to departments, so that GPA's or GPC's may email or
phone these students as soon as they have registered in the database.
Increasingly, major funding
institutions such as NSF, NIH, the Ford Foundation., etc. have
identified diversity and the recruitment of minority and
underrepresented graduate students as both a goal as well as a benchmark
of excellence in an institution or graduate program. With that in mind,
The Graduate School believes that the Name Exchange database can play a
central role in your overall recruitment efforts. I strongly urge all
departments to actively utilize the valuable pool of potential minority
applicants.
If you have questions or
would like to receive departmental authorization to access the Name
Exchange database, please contact The Graduate School's Graduate
Opportunities & Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP) c/o 3-9016.
The GO-MAP Faculty/Staff Advisory Board
The Faculty/Staff Advisory Board was
established as an official liaison between GO-MAP and faculty and staff.
The most vital resources for recruitment and retention of students are
faculty and staff and the roles they play in department efforts.
Faculty and staff who have demonstrated a strong interest in working
toward making the University more inclusive and who can be most instrumental
in making such efforts come to fruition, are invited for a two year
term. The Board meets approximately once per quarter. If you are
interested in serving on the Board, please email us at gomap@u.washington.edu.
How to Recruit Minority and Underrepresented
Students
For
suggestions on the recruitment of minority and underrepresented graduate
students, please see GO-MAP's publication "Best
Practices for Departments to Achieve and Maintain Diversity in the
Graduate Student Population".
Optional Personal
Statement
The Optional Personal Statement provides departments with the
opportunity to solicit supplemental information about an applicant that may be
beneficial in consideration of applicants for admission and/or financial
support. It is intended to complement--not to replace--departments'
existing Statement of Purpose or Personal Statement.
Click
here to read former Associate Dean
Johnnella E. Butler's memo concerning the need for and use of the Optional
Personal Statement.
Click
here to download the Optional Personal Statement in Adobe Acrobat PDF
format.
Graduate School Statistical
Reports
The
Graduate School maintains a database of statistics on graduate education at
the UW. This program allows you to find information in the database from your
Web browser. Data on specific students is not available through this service.
Extracts obtained through this program may be distributed freely. Click
here to view these statistical reports.
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