The Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s to PhD Bridge Program has constructed a theory-based model for graduate education with special attention to promoting the involvement of underrepresented groups. However, there is a clear need to develop new partnerships that will enable us to contribute to the science of broadening participation. Our overarching goal is to generate new research based knowledge and tools to promote broadening participation that can be disseminated on a regional and national scale.

Program Objectives

Build on our current publicly available toolkit to create a more comprehensive Guide detailing the theory and research underlying our tools.
Research the effectiveness of program activities and create tools for internal evaluation and data collection that can be widely disseminated to the higher education community.
Host a Regional Workshop to disseminate the theory and tools from our Guide and connect researchers to practitioners.

Click here to view products from our Regional Workshop.

Our Team

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Arnold Burger, PI

Vice Provost, Professor of Physics,

Co-Director of Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-PhD Bridge Program,

Fisk University

Dina Stroud, Co-PI, Center Director

Research Assistant Professor,

Executive Director, Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-PhD Bridge Program,

Fisk and Vanderbilt Universities

Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Co-PI

Stevenson Professor of Astrophysics,

Co-Director of Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-PhD Bridge Program,

Vanderbilt University

Nicole Joseph, Co-PI

Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education,

Peabody School of Education,

Vanderbilt University

Courtney Tanenbaum, Co-PI

Principal Researcher and Team Lead,

American Institutes for Research

ReAnna Roby, Postdoctoral Fellow

Peabody School of Education,

Vanderbilt University

Contact Us

LSAMP Fisk-Vanderbilt Regional Center of Excellence in Broadening Participation

fisk-vanderbilt-bridge.org

dina.m.stroud@vanderbilt.edu

The Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Fisk-Vanderbilt Regional Center for Excellence is funded by the National Science Foundation Award number HRD 1826755.