Colorado PEAKS Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Program

Tony Frank, Ph.D.
Provost and Senior Vice President
and
CO-PI of the Colorado AGEP Peaks Alliance

Peter Dorhout, Ph.D.
Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Assistant Vice President for Research at CSU and CO-PI of the Colorado AGEP Peaks Alliance

Omnia El-Hakim, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Diversity, Civil Engineering Professor, CO-PI, and
Director of the Colorado AGEP Peaks Alliance

Welcome to the Colorado PEAKS Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) at Colorado State University. The AGEP program is designed to increase the number of underrepresented students receiving the doctoral degree at the PEAKS institutions in the Sciences, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. We need role models and mentors in the professoriate to be able to recruit more underrepresented (STEM) students.

The primary goal of the Colorado PEAKS Alliance is to establish sustainable campus programs that facilitate the development of Ph.D. scholars and academic leaders in STEM disciplines. The PEAKS Alliance will capitalize on the Colorado State University led Louis Stokes Colorado Alliance for Minority Participation (CO-AMP) infrastructure to reach outstanding underrepresented undergraduate students in Colorado and the four corners region who might pursue graduate degrees at PEAKS institutions (CU-Boulder, the principal institution and CSU). CO-AMP has been successful with the development of undergraduate retention and the recruitment programs within the fourteen Colorado institutions of higher education. CO-AMP will be expanded to include graduate student recruitment.

The PEAKS Alliance is your opportunity to excel and lead in the academic environment. Please take advantage of this opportunity and use it to your benefit.

( Last Updated: February 28, 2006 )