The Rackham Graduate School, with support from the Provost’s office, launched a grant program to support relationship-building between U-M graduate and professional programs and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).
The MSI Outreach and Planning Grant and MSI Collaboration and Implementation Grant programs center on building institutional rapport, trust, and mutually beneficial collaborations with MSIs, with the long-term goal of recruiting and enrolling students into U-M graduate and professional programs.
This cohort of grant recipients is collaborating with MSI partners on a number projects, including the development of accelerated master’s courses, faculty exchanges, and joint research collaborations—among many other efforts. We look forward to providing updates on the developments of the initiatives and the relationships that are cultivated and strengthened as a result.
A total of 14 proposals were received for the eight available awards and, after a challenging review process, the review committee selected the following U-M units and their Minority Serving Institution collaborators for the 2019-2020 grant period:
Outreach and Planning:
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology/Program in Biomedical Sciences, Medical School
Morehouse College and Xavier University
Department of Climate and Space Engineering, College of Engineering
University of Puerto Rico
Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Medical School
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
School of Public Health
Morehouse College
Department of Political Science, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Jackson State University
Collaboration and Implementation:
College of Pharmacy
Spelman College
Fisk University
Morgan State University
Xavier University
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Hampton University
Morgan State University
Departments of American Culture and History, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
University of New Mexico
Spelman College
Morehouse College