{"id":4840,"date":"2022-03-08T10:25:56","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T17:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/college-environment-forestry-natural-sciences\/?page_id=4840"},"modified":"2026-03-24T19:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:46:06","slug":"sloan-mitsi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-environment-forestry-natural-sciences\/research\/sloan-mitsi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sloan MITSI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nau-block nau-block-left-nav-top-bound\">\n    \t<button id=\"left-nav-toggle-btn\" onclick=\"toggleNav();\">\n\t\tON THIS PAGE \n\t\t<i id=\"chevron-icon\" class=\"fas fa-solid fa-chevron-down\"><\/i>\n\t<\/button>\n\t<div id=\"left-nav-menu-track\">\n\t\t<div id=\"left-nav-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"rfi-above-anchor-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ri-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/admissions\/request-information\/\" id=\"request-info\" class=\"btn bg-true-blue left-nav-menu-bottom-button display-mobile\">Request info&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div id=\"left-nav-menu\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"menu-section menu-section-links\"><h6 class=\"hidden-mobile left-nav-list-header\">ON THIS PAGE<\/h6><ul class=\"left-nav-menu-list on-this-page\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-environment-forestry-natural-sciences\/research\/sloan-mitsi\/#sloan-mitsi\" title=\"Sloan MITSI \">Sloan MITSI <\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-environment-forestry-natural-sciences\/research\/sloan-mitsi\/#supporting-stem\" title=\"Supporting STEM\">Supporting STEM<\/a><\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/college-environment-forestry-natural-sciences\/research\/sloan-mitsi\/#building-lives\" title=\"Building bridges &amp; 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Sloan Foundation, aims to develop a model for systemic change in STEM graduate education through a coordinated effort across three institutions of higher learning in the Southwest: NAU\u2019s Flagstaff campus, NAU\u2013Yuma, and Din\u00e9 College.<\/p>\n\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"supporting-stem\"        class=\"nau-block full-width-image-with-text-box secondary grid grid-md-12 -grid-fullwidth no-padding span-md-12  mobile-image-yes tablet-image- desktop-imageheight-  textbox-registration-bottomright  textbox-xl-width-2-3 textbox-background-true-blue  bg-true-blue-95 content-type-wysiwyg_linkbank  \">\n\n    <div class=\"full-width-image-with-text-box-picturediv\">\n\n            <picture class=\"left-nav-top-bound main\">\n            <source media=\"(min-width: 1650px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/371\/0782_LeeLab_20190329-2000x1125.jpg\">\n            <source media=\"(min-width: 1100px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/371\/0782_LeeLab_20190329-2000x800.jpg\">\n            <source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/371\/0782_LeeLab_20190329-1200x675.jpg\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/371\/0782_LeeLab_20190329-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"Two students working on testing samples in the laboratory.\">\n        <\/picture>\n    \n    <\/div>\n    <div class=\"fwi-text-box  bg-true-blue-95 \">\n\n    <h2>\n    \n    Supporting graduate STEM education for Indigenous and Latine students\n    <\/h2>\n\n\n    <p>The MITSI program supports undergraduate students from historically underrepresented groups as they move into STEM master&#8217;s degrees at NAU and beyond, and will build networks of faculty mentors who are trained and responsive to the needs of students from historically excluded populations. This exciting program is funded through <strong>The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Northern Arizona University, and Genentech<\/strong>. Together, the shared vision of these contributors will lead to systemic change in the capacity to recruit, train, and place students from historically excluded groups into graduate STEM pathways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n    <div class=\"btn-div\">\n\n        \n            <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nau.edu\/stem-graduate-programs\/\" target=\"\"\n               class=\"btn btn-bottom-mobile btn-gold\">Read more at The NAU Review<\/a>\n\n        \n    <\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n    <\/div>\n\n\n    <\/section>\n\n<section class=\"nau-block left-nav-section grid-md-12\">\n    <div class=\"page-content\">\n        \n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"building-lives\">Building bridges and transforming lives<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>MITSI provides opportunities for current undergraduates, graduate students pursuing a STEM master\u2019s degree, and faculty at NAU and across the Southwest. The program is a shared effort among four faculty members at NAU\u2019s Flagstaff campus: Drs. Catherine Propper, Anita Antoninka, Angelina Castagno, and Monica Brown, in collaboration with Dr. Don Robinson from Din\u00e9 College and Dr. Francisco Villa from NAU\u2013Yuma. The overarching goal is to create long-term, equity-oriented systemic change through a partnership across the three institutions by reducing racial disparities in STEM graduate pathways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"undergrad-grad\">Undergraduate and graduate opportunities <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<section  \n    class=\"nau-block nau-block-panels   \" \n    data-layout_mobile=\"groupLayout-Stack gutter_Default panelLayoutPhotoTextVertical  photoAspect-16-9\"\n        data-layout_tablet=\"groupLayout-Grid gutter_Default panelLayoutPhotoTextVertical  photoAspect-16-9\"\n        data-layout_desktop=\"groupLayout-Grid gutter_Default panelLayoutPhotoTextVertical  photoAspect-16-9\"\n        data-layout_xl=\"groupLayout-Grid gutter_Default panelLayoutPhotoTextVertical  photoAspect-16-9\">\n\n    <div class=\"background-wrapper\">\n        <div class=\"block-main-content\">\n            \n            \n            \n            \n            \n            <div 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                                                                          <h3 class=\" h4\">Undergraduate students<\/h3>\n                                                \n                                                \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"text alt-link-caret\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Upper-division students wishing to learn about post-bachelor\u2019s opportunities in graduate school or their chosen career field can participate in the class-based\u00a0Bridge Program.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                            <\/div>\n                                            \n                                                                                                                                            \n                                                <span role=\"none\" class=\"panel-link panelLinkTypeArrow\"><\/span>\n                                                                   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Students interested in this program are especially encouraged to apply for the Bridge Program as undergraduates.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                            <\/div>\n                                            \n                                                                                                                                            \n                                                <span role=\"none\" class=\"panel-link panelLinkTypeArrow\"><\/span>\n                                                                                    <\/div>\n                                    \n                                                                    <\/a>\n                                \n                                                        <\/div>\n                                                <\/div>\n\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" 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                        \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"text alt-link-caret\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p id=\"block-b8c8f8c9-4410-4f49-b2b4-9aa2e070c5fe\">Families are a key stakeholder for universities, and systemic change toward greater equity must consider the role families can and should play. We propose a bilateral model of family engagement that is designed to both ensure a holistic approach to student support and leverage the expertise of families to inform faculty learning. Family and community bonds are complex and crucial to developing successful student pathways and careers for many Indigenous and Latine students. Transitions to university and graduate programs are often unknown territory and can be a source of stress and adversity for students and their families.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-99c130dd-28a3-487c-a4c4-400a7179653f\">To ensure a positive, culturally responsive community of support for NAU students, we invite parents, relatives, and friends of seniors in the program to partner in their student\u2019s pathway to success. Through in-person and live remote options, we offer a variety of opportunities to facilitate engagement among all parties.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-d9016b21-a129-4584-8f26-0f97824b5f92\">The student support networks will be invited to participate in a workshop to prepare families and participants for graduate school, pathways talks, and the summer symposium. During the symposium, families have the opportunity to meet with faculty mentors to enhance the awareness of the benefits of a graduate education and the degree of commitment necessary for success.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-6ee91560-5db5-44b8-8dfd-4e787624d72a\">We also draw on the rich assets and funds of knowledge among student support network members by inviting them to co-facilitate learning opportunities for STEM faculty in the community of practice and to participate in roundtable conversations and other events designed to build relationships and knowledge across families.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                            <\/div>\n                                            \n                                                                                    <\/div>\n                                    \n                                \n                                                                    \n                                                                            <\/button>\n                                        <button class=\"carousel-control carousel-control-right\">\n                                            <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Next slide<\/span>\n                                            <span class=\"carousel-control-icon fal fa-chevron-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n                                        <\/button>\n                                                                                            <\/div>\n                    \n                        <div class=\"panel bg-twilight-xxx-light  panelTypePhotoText is-slider  \"\n                            data-role=\"tabpanel\"\n                            data-panel=\"panel--1\"\n                            id=\"panel--1\">\n\n                            \n                                                                    <picture>\n                                            <source srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/371\/0847_Carbone_Richardson_20210623-2000x1125.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 1650px)\" \/><!-- xl -->\n                                            <source srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/371\/0847_Carbone_Richardson_20210623-2000x1125.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 1100px)\" \/><!-- desktop -->\n                                            <source srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/371\/0847_Carbone_Richardson_20210623-1200x675.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" \/><!-- tablet -->\n                                            <source srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/371\/0847_Carbone_Richardson_20210623-800x450.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" \/><!-- mobile --><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/371\/0847_Carbone_Richardson_20210623.jpg\" alt=\"A faculty member working on her computer outside with a student.\"  \/>                                        <\/picture>\n                                        <div class=\"content\">\n                                            <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n                                                \n                                                                                                    <h3 class=\"h3-tab-index h4\">STEM faculty academy<\/h3>\n                                                \n                                                \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"text alt-link-caret\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The NAU STEM faculty academy is for faculty who wish to understand and apply principles of anti-racist and equity-oriented education. The MITSI Community of Practice (CoP) seeks to empower institutional change that will provide knowledge and skills related to anti-racist and equity-oriented education to all NAU faculty to support all students as they move through their academic careers.<\/p>\n<p>Faculty participants will engage in a year-long program to grow their understanding of systemic racism, conscious and unconscious bias, foundational equity principles, and how their own positionality relates to teaching and mentoring students. The CoP will meet monthly and will follow a curriculum developed and facilitated by Drs. Castagno and Brown. The curriculum will focus first on self-reflection and self-examination so that STEM faculty more fully understand their own positionality and role in campus culture and climate.<\/p>\n<p>Next, the curriculum will draw on equity-oriented principles and anti-racist worldview development within the context of higher education. Finally, we will explore the applicability of these ideas to STEM teaching, mentoring, research collaborations, and administration of programs (including admissions processes) so that faculty understand how they can build individual leadership capacity to shift their own practices and become role models for other faculty on how to contribute to institutional change, eliminate structural barriers, and reduce disproportionality and systemic inequities in STEM fields.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                            <\/div>\n                                            \n                                                                                    <\/div>\n                                    \n                                \n                                                                                                            <button class=\"n1 carousel-control carousel-control-left\">\n                                            <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Previous slide<\/span>\n                                            <span class=\"carousel-control-icon fal fa-chevron-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n                                    \n                                                                            <\/button>\n                                        <button class=\"carousel-control carousel-control-right\">\n                                            <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Next slide<\/span>\n                                            <span class=\"carousel-control-icon fal fa-chevron-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n                                        <\/button>\n                                                                                            <\/div>\n                    \n                        <div class=\"panel bg-twilight-xxx-light  panelTypePhotoText is-slider   hasLink panelLinkTypeArrow\"\n                            data-role=\"tabpanel\"\n                            data-panel=\"panel--2\"\n                            id=\"panel--2\">\n\n                                                            <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nau.edu\/graduate-professional-studies\/\"\n                                    target=\"\"\n                                    alt=\"Learn more about Graduate and Professional Studies\">\n                            \n                                                                    <picture>\n                                            <source srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/371\/2458_commencement_20240511-2000x1125.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 1650px)\" \/><!-- xl -->\n                                            <source srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/371\/2458_commencement_20240511-2000x1125.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 1100px)\" \/><!-- desktop -->\n                                            <source srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/371\/2458_commencement_20240511-1200x675.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" \/><!-- tablet -->\n                                            <source srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/371\/2458_commencement_20240511-800x450.jpg\" media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" \/><!-- mobile --><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/371\/2458_commencement_20240511.jpg\" alt=\"Students clapping at their graduation ceremony\"  \/>                                        <\/picture>\n                                        <div class=\"content\">\n                                            <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n                                                \n                                                                                                    <h3 class=\" h4\">MITSI graduate admissions<\/h3>\n                                                \n                                                \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"text alt-link-caret\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p id=\"block-0102a2ce-5689-4774-9b83-2b676782bf82\">Systemic change toward greater equity in STEM graduate education requires a focus on key policies that may create unintentional barriers and exclusionary patterns along STEM pathways. The MITSI program will work with STEM departments and NAU\u2019s Office of Graduate and Professional Studies to integrate different metrics into the graduate application process and train faculty on the utility of this approach.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-ed139fc6-dd23-42a3-8459-6a161abb1c62\">For example, rather than relying on traditional application metrics (such as GRE scores, letters of recommendation, etc.), we will work with the academic and graduate colleges toward implementation of new policies that require non-cognitive variables such as positive self-concept; realistic self-appraisal; understanding of systems of racism, sexism, etc.; and leadership, which have been shown to correlate with student adjustment, motivation, and success.<\/p>\n<p id=\"block-3888ccfb-de38-43dd-91c6-7babb7a313f6\">Revising the graduate application review process to center non-cognitive variables will result in a more diverse pool of accepted students, which will expand access to STEM pathways among BIPOC individuals. 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Forestry \u2013 Advisor: Anita Antoninka<\/p>\n<p>Kirby Morris \u2013 MS Biology \u2013 Advisor: Kitty Gehring<\/p>\n<p>Darren Olney \u2013 MS Environmental Sciences \u2013 Advisor: Helen Rowe<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salixscoresby.com\">Salix Scoresby<\/a>\u00a0 \u2013 MS Forestry \u2013 Co-advisors: Seafha Ramos and Faith Walker<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"accordion-item\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"accordion-header\" id=\"collapse-2023-National-Needs-Fellowship-Recipients--USDA-funding-2-header\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"accordion-button collapsed\" type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#collapse-2023-National-Needs-Fellowship-Recipients--USDA-funding-2\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"collapse-2023-National-Needs-Fellowship-Recipients--USDA-funding-2\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t2023 National Needs Fellowship Recipients (USDA funding)\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<div 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