UC Berkeley’s Biology Scholars Program – Return on Investment and the Economics of Scaling Student Success
Speaker: Professor John Matsui, Assistant Dean, Biological Sciences and Director, Biology Scholars ProgramUniversity of California, Berkeley, Department of Integrative Biology
Thursday, June 6th, 201912:30-1:30pm,Location: PSB 240, UCSC |
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Description:
UC Berkeley’s Biology Scholars Program – Return on Investment and the Economics of Scaling Student Success
Underrepresentation in STEM persists in spite of 40-years of diversity programs designed to change the face of who succeeds in science majors and careers. Billions of public and private dollars invested in this effort have produced only small effects. What’s wrong with this picture?
Long-running programs such as the Meyerhoff Scholars Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the Biology Scholars Program (BSP) at UC Berkeley have demonstrated that the success of underrepresented students in STEM is possible. What lessons should the STEM community take away from these and other successful programs to help us invest our limited time and money to scale success beyond a few program members with the aspiration to pursue a STEM major and related career, to every student institution-wide?
Please join John Matsui, the Director and co-Founder of UC Berkeley’s Biology Scholars Program, to hear his perspective on this challenge as he draws from the success of the 3,600 first-generation, low-income, and URM Berkeley undergraduates in his program since 1992.
