UC AGEP - Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate

A partnership among the ten campuses of the University of California and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The goal of this partnership is to increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) students who acquire doctoral degrees in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and ultimately enter the professoriate. To achieve this goal, UC AGEP has created a structured series of program initiatives that span the pathway to the professoriate.

• UC Berkeley Contact: Dr. Angela Armendariz
• UC San Francisco Contact: Donald Woodson

UC LEADS Scholars Program

The goal of the University of California's new Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees (UC LEADS) program is to educate California's future leaders by preparing promising students for advanced education in science, technology, mathematics and engineering (STEM). The program is designed to identify upper-division undergraduate students with the potential to succeed in these disciplines, but who have experienced situations or conditions that have adversely impacted their advancement in their field of study.

• Berkeley Contact: Dr. Diana Lizarraga
• UC San Francisco Contact: Donald Woodson

UC CAMP

UC CAMP is the Louis Stokes UC Alliance for Minority Participation in the sciences. It is one of 37 alliances nation wide that is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The mission of CAMP is to help Science majors who are African-American, Native-American, and Hispanics students graduate with their B.S. degrees and ideally go onto STEM graduate programs. UC CAMP has just received a fifth cycle of funding which involves 50K to each UC campus plus $20K of UCOP Diversity Research Initiative funds. Each year in February an annual undergraduate research symposium and is held to bring together students, staff, and faculty from each CAMP program. The lead campus in the UC Systemwide alliance is UC Irvine.

• Berkeley contact: Diana Lizarraga