Additional Resources

• UCSC-HBCU Pathways Group Growing Our Own Initiative: Summers in Santa Cruz Project
• Pan African Research Fellowship Program
• The Humanities Institute’s Graduate Student Success Program
• The Graduate Student Peer Mentor program

UCSC-HBCU Pathways Group Growing Our Own Initiative:

Summers in Santa Cruz Project

• $150k/year for 3 years from the UCOP Growing Our Own Initiative. Our proposal, called the HBCU Summers in Santa Cruz Project, is to use the funds for supporting summer programs that promote the recruitment and retention of HBCU alums into our graduate programs through the interventions laid out in the UCSC-HBCU Pathways Group’s intervention plan to improve support for African, Black, and Caribbean students. A significant portion of this is supporting ABC UCSC students performing research in the summer, as well, through partnership with the Office of African, Black, and Caribbean Student Success.
• Beginning Summer 2023, we have funding available for faculty research funds to compensate UCSC faculty for their work leading and participating in HBCU-targeted summer research programs, as well as a pool of travel funds to facilitate bi-directional travel of faculty between UCSC and HBCU partners. These funds are also available to faculty mentoring UCSC ABC students in collaboration with an HBCU. This project also provides a pool of funds for visiting student meals, housing, and travel assistance over the summer, as well as logistical support (like housing, dining, travel, etc.) from the Office of ABC Student Success’s Graduate Intern and funding support for graduate student mentors. We will have summer ABC community building programming to connect HBCU and UCSC students learning under various faculty mentors and in various summer programs. 

Pan African Research Fellowship Program

Pan African Research Fellowship Program: focuses on African, Black, and Caribbean studies and/or self-identification, provides faculty mentor support and training

The Humanities Institute’s Graduate Student Success Program

The Humanities Institute’s Graduate Student Success Program pairs new students with more advanced student mentors, and assigns a team of faculty to the cohort to operate as faculty mentors. The program lasts for two years, and students have the opportunity to participate later as a mentor themselves. This is the last year they have guaranteed funding for this program. They also have a Committee on Graduate Student Grant Writing which includes faculty from each of the Humanities departments that offer cross-disciplinary feedback on applications.

The Graduate Student Peer Mentor Program

The Graduate Student Peer Mentor program is accessible to all grads.  The lead mentors help develop and organize a variety of Peer Mentor workshops that help all grads navigate the various expectations of grad school.  This program is in its pilot year and does not have permanent funding. The Peer Mentor workshops include the following themes:

See also:

• Professional Development: Teaching and Mentorship Core Competency
• Institute for Biology of STEM Cells Training Programs, including the UC Doctoral Diversity Initiative
• GANAS Institutionalization Collaboration Map: Various campus programs supporting historically marginalized students and includes mentorship
• The Institute for Biology of STEM Cells Training Programs, including the UC Doctoral Diversity Initiative

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