College of Sciences
Center for Promoting Inclusion and Equity in Science (C-PIES)
GradSTEP Graduate Student Enrichment Program
The College of Sciences (CoS) and the Center for Promoting Inclusion and Equity in Science (C-PIES) welcome applications from graduate students to increase belonging across its six schools (Psychology, Mathematics, Biological Sciences, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Physics). To facilitate community building, we have created the Graduate STudent Enrichment Program to engage graduate students within CoS to develop proposals on how best to facilitate learning and belonging within their community. C-PIES calls for Student-led teams that have an identified faulty or staff member (e.g., Associate Chair for Graduate Education, Program Director, or Academic Program Manager) to oversee their proposals and implementation.
Student-led teams must consist of graduate students from a single graduate school or a collaboration with students across multiple graduate programs within the College of Sciences. Teams should not consist of individual labs/disciplines only. Applications that focus on engagement of early-stage graduate students or early and late-stage graduate students are preferred.
The GradSTEP program will seek to fund activities that will support programs in 2 categories aligned with the objectives of Transforming Teaching and Learning:
Peer mentorship facilitation
Proposals in this category can focus on funding opportunities to create well-defined mentorship hubs in the defined graduate student community. These hubs should emphasize programming and other events aimed at supporting student success through peer-mentorship.
Proposals in this category should be aligned with the Mentoring in Research goal for Transforming Teaching and Learning at Georgia Tech.
Academic skills support
Proposals in this category will focus on supporting activities that are academically oriented, such as small-group technical tutorials or other scholarly training, graduate course tutoring, or skill building activities that are crucial to graduate student research and academic needs within the defined graduate student community.
Proposals in this category should be aligned with the Academic Support goal for Transforming Teaching and Learning at Georgia Tech.
Budget: Proposals may request up to $2000. GradSTEP proposals will be administered by the designated faculty/staff mentor.
Please contact cpies@cos.gatech.edu for more information.