Equity and inclusion in graduate education: a model from the heartland
Raising the floor: Progress and setbacks in the struggle for quality mathematics education for all
May 09, 2006 02:15 PM to 03:00 PM
Speakers:
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Biography:
Phil Kutzko was born and raised in New York City and is a product of the New York City
public schools. He attended the City College of New York and received his M.S. and
Ph.D. degrees at the University of Wisconsin. He joined the University of Iowa
mathematics faculty in 1974. Kutzko’s research is in the area of pure mathematics
known as the representation theory of p-adic groups, an area with applications to the
theory of numbers. He is the author, with Colin Bushnell, of a monograph in the Annals
of Mathematics Studies (Princeton) and has lectured widely on his work. He is presently
a University of Iowa Collegiate Fellow. Kutzko is honored to have played a part in the
Department of Mathematics’ activities in minority graduate education and in the
extension of these activities to other departments at the three Iowa Regents
universities. In this context, he directs the departmental Sloan Foundation minority
fellowship program as well as the NSF-funded Iowa AGEP program, a large-scale project
to increase the number of underrepresented minority graduate students in science,
technology, engineering and the mathematical sciences at the three Iowa Regents
universities. As of August, 2005 Kutzko has joined the University of Iowa Graduate
College as its Director of Graduate Ethnic Inclusion. In this position he will extend the
goals and practices of Iowa AGEP to graduate education at the UI. |
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During the period 2003-2004, 1041 Ph.D.s were awarded in the mathematical sciences in the United States. Of this number 441 were US citizens or permanent residents and of this latter number, 18 were African Americans 14 were Latina/Latino and 5 were American Indians or Pacific Islanders. By contrast, the Department of Mathematics at the University of Iowa, a majority department in a majority university in a state with relatively few minority citizens, has awarded six Ph.D.s to underrepresented minority students in the last three years and expects to produce an average of three such Ph.D.s per year for the foreseeable future. My hope in this talk is to focus on how and why this happened: the process by which a department transformed itself over ten years from a standard majority department to one that has begun to move beyond race and ethnicity and the cultural and spiritual underpinnings that have supported this transformation |
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