San Diego State University
PAE-9: Support Programs for Future Faculty

San Diego State University is committed to furthering social justice and diversity, one of the five aspects of its Shared Vision. SDSU recognizes that having a diverse faculty has a positive impact on the quality of education for all students because students are exposed to a variety of scholarly perspectives, teaching methods, and new fields of inquiry. The following programs are a selection of future faculty training programs that are preparing students from diverse backgrounds for professions in teaching and research: future faculty The SDSU Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS)-Intitiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) Program is an intensive undergraduate research training program which prepares students for direct entry into biomedical or behavioral Ph.D. programs. In 2008, the MBRS IMSD Program was awarded a new 4-year grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to continue supporting undergraduates. The NIGMS mission is to improve the participation of historically underrepresented students in the sciences and increase the number of underrepresented students who matriculate directly to a Ph.D. program. Although this is the primary goal, we encourage all students to apply, as the MBRS IMSD Program offers several benefits to help students succeed and prepare for graduate school. http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/mbrs/program.html The Minority Access to Research Careers Program (MARC), sponsored by the National Institutes of General Medical Sciences, was established in 1975 to help develop the talent and to increase the number of Ph.D. degrees awarded among certain ethnic groups that have long been underrepresented in the biomedical sciences. MARC is funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIH/NIGMS) T34GM08303 http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/casa/marc/index.php The SDSU McNair Scholars Program is an innovative program that prepares talented students in the pursuit of doctoral study and careers in higher education. Twenty-five scholars are selected to receive stipends to conduct research with university faculty mentors, write research papers and present their work to professors and peers at regional and national conferences. The program has completed 15 summer research programs and 23 alumni have completed doctoral programs. Five of our alumni are currently in faculty positions and 10 are conducting post-doctoral research. Four of our alumni have completed M.D.s, two have completed J.D.s, one has completed a PharmD, one has completed a D.P.T. (doctorate in Physical Therapy), and one has completed an Ed.D. Forty scholars are currently enrolled in doctoral programs. http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/mcnair/program.html Since 1995 SDSU students and faculty have participated in the San Diego and Imperial Counties Community College Association (SDICCCA) Regional Faculty Internship program. The program prepars students to be future community college faculty through a year-long intensive training and faculty shadowing experience. In the past 12 years of the program’s operation, 240 interns participated in the program. 67% of these interns were people of color. Of the interns who subsequently have been hired full-time after their experiences in the program, fully 86% have been from ethnically underrepresented groups. This faculty training program is one of the most successful in the state at preparing new faculty to teach or counsel in community colleges. In 2005 the SDICCCA director Dr. Bill Piland, Professor Emeritus, in the Department of Administration, Rehabilitation and Postsecondary Education, won the California Community College Chancellor’s Award for Best Practices in Diversity.