Fall 2011 Accomplishments
FIPSE Grant Report Kim Palmore PhD Director, Professional Development
Fall 2011 Maria Franco-Aguilar Director, Academic Preparation
University of California, Riverside
Outreach Accomplishments
September 2011 “Applying to Graduate School” workshop presented to TRIO Scholars on campus
September 2011 Sally Casanova Cal Predoc Program Orientation at CSU Office of the Chancellor
October 2011 Hosted a group of students from CSU Long Beach for a 1/2 day campus visit
October 2011 Presented a workshop on “Summer Research Opportunities” to the TRIO Scholars on campus
October 2011 Presented “Nuts and Bolts of Applying to Graduate School” to the MARC U Scholars on campus
October 2011 Attended SACNAS National Conference in San Jose, CA
October 2011 Attended Northern California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education in San Francisco
November 2011 Attended CSU Los Angeles Graduate Fair
November 2011 Presented at UC Irvine’s Leading Through Diversity (PAID) Conference
November 2011 Attended Annual ABRCMS* Conference in St. Louis, Missouri
Mentoring Program Accomplishments
July 2011 Accepted to Mentoring Conference in New Mexico to disseminate more information
July 2011 Hired 12 new mentors for anticipated 2011-12 program
July 2011 Placed 66 new mentees in 11 groups of faculty and peer mentors
August 2011 Planned 5 orientation events for mentors and mentees. Scheduled 4 outside presenters
August 2011 Scheduled 5 workshops for fall 2011: a series of four NSF grant writing and one on time management.
August 2011 Developed first quarter mentoring curriculum
August 2011 Created mentoring teams
September 2011 Updated Blackboard Site for Mentoring Program
September 2011 Oriented and prepared 66 Graduate Mentees for mentoring program
September 2011 Oriented and trained 22 Peer Mentors
September 2011 Oriented and trained 11 Faculty Mentors
September 2011 Organized and facilitated meet and greet luncheon
September 2011 Grant Extension approved
October 2011 Held NSF Grant Writing Workshop series of four
October 2011 Offered Private NSF Consultation Sessions via Graduate Student Writers Resource Center
October 2011 Held Time Management Workshop
October 2011 Follow up training session for 22 Peer Mentors
October 2011 Dissemination Conference Presentation: New Mexico
November 2011 Dissemination Conference: UCI
December 2011 Completed first quarter of mentoring: 65 mentees once a week with Peer Mentors and approx three times with Faculty mentors
