Impact

Overview

Overview

USF is one of only eight institutions (MIT, Cornell, Georgia Tech, Duke, U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Penn State, UC-San Diego, and USF) awarded a prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation University Center of Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) for its national leadership in minority graduate education. Since 2005, the Sloan Foundation has supported 149 underrepresented (African-American/Black and Hispanic/Latino doctoral students in the USF College of Engineering, College of Marine Science, and affiliated STEM departments. 

GOAL

The goal of the Sloan UCEM at USF is to institutionalize best practices in minority graduate student success at USF while also expanding diversity in academia, industry, government, and all other sectors of the nation’s STEM workforce.

USF SLOAN (PRE-UCEM AND UCEM) BY THE NUMBERS

• 149 Scholars
• 95 Mentors

PH.D. STUDENT OUTCOMES

85 percent Ph.D. Completion Rate 
87 Ph.D. Alumni

• 43% – Academia
• 34% – Industry
• 13% – Government
• 10% – Other

RESEARCH

• 487 journals, Conference Proceedings, Patents, and Technical Reports produced by scholars and alumni
• 21 countries scholars have participated in extended research training: Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, Costa Rica, Belize, Mexico, New Zealand, Israel, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Japan, Singapore, China, Taiwan, New Zealand, Antarctica
• 13 national labs and research centers scholars have engaged in research: Argonne, AFRL-Eglin, AFRL-Kirtland, Brookhaven, Idaho National, PNNL, MIT Lincoln Lab, NASA Glenn, NASA Goddard, NASA Ames, Naval Research Lab

POINTS OF PRIDE

• NOAA ranked USF 1st in graduating minority graduate students (MS/Ph.D.) in Oceanography
• Diverse Issues in Higher Education ranked USF in the top 5 for conferring engineering doctorates to both African American and Hispanic students (2013)   
• 100+ Student Fellowship Awards (Fulbright, NSF, NASA, AAUW, National Research Council, Microsoft, AAAS, Ford, GEM, McKnight, and others)