Improving MSI Pathways to STEM Graduate Education Through Grantmaking: Lessons for the Field

In Short One of the most promising ways to widen pathways to STEM graduate education is within reach: creating and strengthening partnerships between minority-serving institutions and the nation’s master’s and doctoral STEM programs. The most effective partnerships are those that educate their communities along the way, including engaging STEM faculty and departmental leadership. Faculty-to-faculty relationships are necessary for systemic change to occur, as evidenced by multiple change models. Innovation, like everything in higher education, is context dependent, necessitating a rethink about what innovation is and where and how it occurs.