National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc.
To provide effective and efficient administrative support for the Sloan Minority Graduate Scholarship Programs (MPHD and SIGP) with an expanded focus on building connections and community among them
The National Action Council on Minorities in Engineering (NACME) administers the Foundation’s graduate scholarship programs, including the Minority PhD program (MPHD) and the Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership (SIGP). In this role, NACME maintains records on MPHD and SIGP graduate students and tracks and manages the disbursement of Sloan scholarship and other funding commitments. NACME also plays an essential role both in the analysis of supported graduate students performance and outcomes, and in managing the community of campus participants in Sloan programs. Funds from this grant will support these activities for years. In addition to continued execution of this role, NACME will pursue three additional objectives over the course of the three-year grant period. First it will expand its analysis of student records to discover trends impacting the performance of Sloan scholars in the MPHD and SIGP programs. Second, it will expand and assess efforts to build community among UCEMs with the implementation and management of a new online platform, SloanConnect, and other associated strategies. Third it will test potential new surveys and program elements to assess their value for implementation.