Project Goals

In response to the under-representation of women in the sciences, the UM, in conjunction with the Sloan Foundation, has initiated a model recruitment and retention program for women graduate students in engineering and the physical sciences (defined here as chemistry, physics, and applied physics). The UM·Sloan Graduate Experience Project is a comprehensive, university-wide initiative designed to recruit, retain, graduate, and foster the future success of women engineering and physical science students at both the Master's and Ph.D. levels. The four major components of the project are:

research efforts to increase our knowledge base on the issues facing women graduate students in science and engineering;
programmatic efforts to attract, recruit, and retain women students in Michigan's engineering and physical science graduate programs;
systemic institutional efforts to change the climate for women graduate students; and
efforts to evaluate and disseminate the results of this model.

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