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Recruitment and Retention on a Shoestring Budget: Maintaining a
Commitment to Diversity Under Economic
UncertaintyUniversity of Washington
Graduate Opportunities & Minority Achievement Program
Cynthia Morales, Asst. DirectorSophia Agtarap, Admin. Counselor
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Strategies and best practices for
• Keeping diversity a priority• Maintaining effective
outreach, recruitment and retention during economic austerity• Competing for and
maintaining a robust diverse community of graduate scholars
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Keeping Diversity a Priority
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Be a part of the conversation; be a resource
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Establish diversity as a shared value
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Demonstrate Impact
Maintaining effective outreach, recruitment
and retention
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• Conferences vs. Fairs• Use your networks• National Name Exchange
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Outreach
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Conference vs. Fair
Flickr: dale_hameister
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Use Your Networks
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• Consortium of universities interested in increasing access of URMs to grad school• Average GPA: 3.6• Honors: 32 %• 177 apps to UW
• Work w/ depts to create competitive and creative packages
• Focused recruitment: PSD, open houses, GDRs
• Be realistic about fit
• Be accessible
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Compete &
Recruit
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Don’t underestim
ate importance
of “fit”
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Fit
Meet Sarah
Are you accessible? Are you listening?
Are you responsive?
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Meet Sarah
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Retention: Maintaining a robust, diverse
community of scholars
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• Funding• Networking• Professional development • Participation• Continuous communication• Identify & address hurdles
Identify & Address Hurdles
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•Students feel isolated after generals•Form writing groups
•Lack of funding•Dissertation fellowships, quarterly awards
•Survey student needs•Ex: PhD survey
So remember…
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• Follow up• Establish yourself [or office]
as the go-to • Don’t underestimate fit• Be where your students are• Work towards making
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Cynthia Morales, Asst. Director, [email protected]
Sophia Agtarap, Admin. Counselor, [email protected]
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