Annual
orientation for new and continuing graduate students.
Retention Strategies
Immediately involving new students in a network of currently
enrolled students.
An orientation program, welcoming dinner, seminars, special
speakers, socials, study groups, mentoring activities,
and counseling are available throughout the year to new
and continuing students.
Fellowships support is awarded as available to students
through the Graduate School, and grants from government
and outside corporations. The Multicultural Programs Office is
constantly searching for new and additional sources of
funding to assist graduate students.
Career placement assistance is offered to students as
they near graduation
Contact is maintained with students who have completed
their graduate studies, and many are invited back to the
campus to share their insights and expertise with current
students.
Mentoring
Many unique problems face
students coming from HBCUs to a large majority research institution.
Our mentoring efforts seek to address these problems and
provide a forum for students to encourage one another and
learn from those who have successfully survived the experience.
Formal mentoring programs
facilitated by Purdue Ph.D. degree graduates have been established
in the departments of biological sciences and chemistry.
Informal opportunities are encouraged and fostered by bringing
graduates back to campus to present seminars and forums,
and meet individually with students.
Goals of the mentoring programs are:
to give the students time to get to know each other on
an informal basis to develop a level of trust;
to provide a forum where students can talk openly about
their concerns so that problems and issues can be addressed
and solved, and successes can be shared;
share information about academic concerns (e.g. cumulative
and preliminary exams)
provide written recommendations and hints about surviving
graduate study that will be available for new students
matriculating at Purdue.
The Institute
for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT) recruits outstanding
underrepresented students to pursue master's and doctoral
degrees in the arts and sciences, humanities, and social
sciences.
Contact
Director of Multicultural Programs
Graduate School Administration
170 Young Hall
302 Wood Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2108 delewis@purdue.edu
(765) 494-3232 or (765) 494-0945
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