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Academy of Courageous Minority Engineers
ACME provides a safe forum to strategically approach the challenges faced by graduate
students, in order to facilitate graduate student development
Challenges for Graduate Students
• The job!! It’s challenging. But there are also...
• Institutional dynamics
• Physical resources
• Intellectual assumptions
Join a graduate student support group
-Robert Peters “Getting What You Came For”
Pg. 138
ACME Framework
• Commonality component
• Scholarly community
• Accountability mechanisms
• Interdisciplinary
• Organic and distributed
ACME results• Adds depth to the graduate learning experience•
• Places the student in the context of a reflective practitioner
• Provides intellectual environment for presenting new ideas and setting goals
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• Broad range of perspectives on research and process - understanding the graduate student individual process as a developing scholar
Implementationof ACME Framework
ACME Activities
• Weekly accountability day (changes every semester using doodle surveys)
• ACME lecture series and practice talks
• Writing and study rooms – e.g. AHANA lounge
• Thesis boot-camps/retreats
ACME Online System
Login
Goals Page
Comments Page
ACME Email
Soon to come …
ACME facebook application:goal-setting
Success StoriesAsegun Henry, Ph.D. Mech. E 2009Mark Hampton, Ph.D. EECS 2008Lincoln Chandler, Ph.D. OR 2008James McLurkin, Ph.D. EECS 2008Tyrone Hill, Ph.D. EECS 2008Ishara Mills, Ph.D. Biology 2007Fritz Pierre, Ph.D. Mech. E 2007Eric Wade, Ph.D. Mech. E 2007Melva James, S.M. Chemistry 2007Sean Bradshaw, Ph.D. EECS 2006Robbin Chapman, Ph.D. EECS 2006Anthony Okobi, Ph.D. HST 2006Tamara Rosbury Ph.D. EECS 2006Lincoln Chandler, S.M. OR 2005Ayanna Samuels, S.M Aero/TPP 2005Shaundra Daily, S.M. MAS 2005Todd Coleman, Ph.D. EECS 2005Amon Millner, S.M. MAS 2005Nicole Love, Ph.D. EECS 2004Tyrone Hill, S.M. EECS 2004Aisha Walcott, S.M. EECS 2004Alicia Boozer, S.M. EECS 2003
Start Your Own ACME
• Start an accountability group
• Meet regularly
• Shared Commonality
• Recommended group size (4 to 8)
Conclusion
• Optimal group size promotes crucial interactions
• Complementary online and face-to-face interaction critical to robustness and sustainability
Conclusion• ACME Promotes critical reflection
on graduate student process
• Exposure to diverse range of scholarly perspectives
• Thoughtful setting and achievement of goals
• Strongly connected pool of scholars