“Measuring Diversity”: New Guide from NSF, AAAS, Helps Universities Evaluate Their Efforts

With many U.S. universities working to recruit and support minority graduate students, the National Science Foundation and AAAS have developed a new guide offering detailed advice and practical tools to help administrators evaluate the effectiveness of their efforts.

“Measuring Diversity: An Evaluation Guide for STEM Graduate Program Leaders” has a simple premise: A high rate of students from underrepresented minority groups leave graduate studies before completing advanced degrees, and especially at a time of rising global competition, that represents a significant and costly loss of talent and potential.

“High-quality graduate programs must work to become more efficient and even more effective,” says Shirley Malcom, director of Education and Human Resources at AAAS and one of the editors of the guide.

The report, issued by AAAS and based on work with the National Science Foundation’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), is available in paperback or online. For more details, read the full story.