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OGEI is Open & Inclusive: Our Promise

The Office of Graduate Ethnic Inclusion is working to build a sustainable practice of inclusion to attract and keep top underrepresented graduate scholars campus wide. OGEI uses an approach that builds community and involves faculty in recruiting and mentoring efforts.

• Increase numbers of underrepresented ethnic minorities
  in graduate programs
   
• Increase the number of doctoral students among U.S. ethnic minorities
   
• Build community for ethnic minorities within
  graduate programs at Iowa
                   
• Create a department-centered effort of graduate ethnic inclusion   
   
• Offer support to departments and programs at The University of Iowa that are interested in building, extending, or sustaining their practices of ethnic inclusion
        
• Support a faculty-based effort for recruiting top graduate scholars who are underrepresented ethnic minorities
   
• Provide mentoring and support for students throughout their degree programs
   
• Provide information on grant opportunities for departments and programs that  are pursuing graduate ethnic inclusion

   How OGEI serves underrepresented students:

 

Help prospective students apply for graduate education at Iowa

Support graduate students as they earn their graduate degree from The University of Iowa

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   Additional resources:

 

    People

• OGEI Contacts

    Programs

• SROP at Iowa
• Iowa Biosciences Advantage (IBA)

    Resources

• Center for Diversity & Enrichment (CDE)
• Diversity at The University of Iowa

    Funding

• Financial Assistance for Graduate Study at Iowa
• Fellowships opportunities for graduate students

    Applying

• Application process
• Application (link to online login)

    Living in Iowa City

• Getting settled in