The Intellectual Entrepreneurship (IE) Pre-Graduate School Internship Program
Institution:
The University of Texas at Austin
State:
Texas
Academic Level:
Graduate
Issue Area:
Access
Program Focus:
Pathway/Pipeline
Key Personnel:
Richard Cherwitz
Contact Info:
cherwitz@austin.utexas.edu | 512.922.5029
Overview
Founded in 1997, the Intellectual Entrepreneurship (IE) Consortium offers a distinctive vision of education attractive to Latinos and other students underrepresented in higher education. Offering the IE Pre-Graduate School Internship program, they use a unique methodology for expanding the graduate applicant pool of traditionally underrepresented students while improving undergraduate education for all students.
Program Description
The IE Pre-Grad Internship offers academic credit to students who participate and work closely with graduate student mentors and faculty supervisors to create an internship experience aimed at exploring and choosing their field of study. Participants learn about the unique aspects of graduate study that distinguish it from the undergraduate experience like conducting research, writing for scholarly audiences, participating in seminars, serving as teaching and research assistants, publishing articles in professional journals, becoming members of scholarly organizations and learned societies, preparing for an academic or professional career, and more.
Outcome
Of the students who participate in the program, 31.5% of them are Latino, and of those students, 61% of them are first-generation college students.
Approximately 50% of students who graduate from the program continue to a graduate program.
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