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David T. Kearns Center for Leadership and Diversity in Arts, Sciences, and Engineering

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What is the Kearns Center?

The mission of the David T. Kearns Center for Leadership and Diversity in Arts, Sciences and Engineering at the University of Rochester is to expand the educational pipeline through the doctoral degree for low-income, first-generation college, and underrepresented minority students.

The Kearns Center focuses on the creation of replicable and scalable educational models that will increase the number of low-income and historically underrepresented individuals pursuing undergraduate, graduate and professional education. The Kearns Center partners with the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the Xerox Corporation, the Ford Foundation and a host of private donors to promote the successful engagement of a diverse student body in higher education.

The Kearns Center acts as the umbrella structure for the following programs:



Pre-College Programs
Upward Bound Classic Program
Upward Bound Math Science Program
Thomas Jefferson Merchants of Hope

College Programs
Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program
National Science Foundation Scholars
Xerox Undergraduate Research Fellows
Graduate Visitation Program

Graduate Programs
GEM Fellows
Northeast Consortium for Faculty Diversity Visiting Dissertation Scholar

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