University of California, Los Angeles
PAE-9: Support Programs for Future Faculty

UCLA Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) This program is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Its mission is to increase the number of underrepresented minority students (African American, Hispanics, American Indians, and Native Hawaiians, Alaska Natives or other Pacific Islanders) in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) PhD programs. The UCLA AGEP program has numerous support services to help their students transition to graduate life and apply to graduate school. The mission of this program is to significantly increase the number of underrepresented minority students receiving doctoral degrees in the STEM programs. A number of strategic methods to achieve this goal include: -Summer enrichment opportunities for undergraduate, master's and doctoral students -Pre-application events -Partnerships with Minority Serving Institutions which include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), California State Universities (CSU), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU) -Targeted interactions with admissions committees -Increased campus visitations -Increased networking opportunities -Improved faculty mentoring -Professional and academic skills workshops -Creation of new models for increasing URM access to and participation in postdoctoral scholar positions, ensuring competitiveness for academic positions http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/asis/agep/index.html UC Diversity Initiative for Graduate Study in the Social Sciences (DIGSSS) This program funded largely by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and provides financial and academic support in the form of the UC DIGSSS Fellows Award for first-year doctoral students studying social, behavioral and economic sciences programs. It assists students in making a successful transition to graduate studies by becoming academically engaged. http://www.gdnet.ucla.edu/asis/digsss/index.html