University Human Resources has been collaborating with OIDI to offer curricula specific to diversity and inclusion. For example, in Fall 2017, OIDI and UHR co-facilitated a book discussion on stereotype threat for the Leadership Certification Program.
SPS significantly expanded financial aid to Providence area students to participate in Brown’s Pre-College Summer Program, starting in summer 2016. A total of 349 HUG students received $962,000 in scholarships.
The Office of the Provost has doubled funding for ADOCH 2017.
The offices of Admission and Financial Aid have strengthened partnerships that promote opportunities for high school students of color. A notable success this year is the successful match of 20 Questbridge Scholars from around the country (among them are 9 female, 15 first-generation, 7 African American, 4 Asian American, 7 Latinx, 2 Native American and 9 white students).
The Medical School’s Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs is working closely with the OIDI to develop new strategic partnerships to increase recruitment and outreach to prospective HUG medical students, improve support for curricular and co-curricular efforts, and to provide professional development support and mentoring for diverse medical students and medical residents/trainees.
Individual academic departments have put forward new pipeline initiatives, which OIDI is supporting. This includes the Summer Immersion Program in Philosophy (SIPP) at Brown and the development of a Humanities Summer Institute for humanities-focused fields.
We continue to collaborate with the Leadership Alliance Consortium and the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership (BTP) in order to create pipeline opportunities for aspiring PhD students. BTP also supports pipeline efforts in Brown’s schools of medicine and public health through early identification programs. Additional funding from OIDI will provide four summer slots and funding to the Leadership Alliance Consortium to provide opportunities for aspiring medical students.
The Dean of the Graduate School has led an expansion of the Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) Program. The program has extended its reach to provide research training, support and mentoring of graduate students in the physical sciences, social sciences and humanities for the 2016-2017 academic year admissions cycle (beyond the original scope of supporting students in the life/biomedical sciences and public health).
New graduate fellowships have been created to assist the Graduate School in recruiting highly promising graduate students from diverse backgrounds to Brown’s Ph.D. programs.
TPAC training on implicit bias was facilitated by OIDI in Spring 2016. Plans to develop more professional development opportunities are currently underway.
