L Milne's List: STEM

Mission:\nWorking with all stakeholders, we will create innovative solutions, implement proven strategies, and expand opportunities critical to attracting, retaining, and advancing minorities and women in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

Council of Graduate Schools newsletter, The Communicator, July 2009\n"Professional Science Masters Update: The Internship Component"\n\nArticle provides an overview of PSM programs at universities around the country. "What characterizes the PSM internship and makes it somewhat unusual is its place in graduate science programs and the far more intimate and intentional relationship between math and science program directors and off-campus internship providers."

Enormously helpful set of STEM assessment tools developed by the Pennsylvania State University and University of Missouri, funded by the National Science Foundation.

Diversity, retention, classroom environment, pre-college recruiting surveys; plus assessment resources and implementation tools.

"To prepare a new generation of scholars on college and university campuses, the Ford Foundation joined with City College to provide funds for a program to attract and support the most talented undergraduates in choosing careers in advanced research and college teaching.

The program provides financial support and a developmental structure from the beginning of a student's sophomore year until admission to graduate school. "