The AGU Bridge Program is committed to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in the Earth and space sciences through the dissemination of leading practices in higher education and the facilitation of a graduate application pathway at our partner departments. The program’s goal is to expand outreach and recruitment of students identifying as Hispanic, Black/African American, American Indian, Pacific Islander, Alaskan Native or Native Hawaiian for the AGU Bridge Program to achieve their educational goals in supportive and inclusive environments, thereby raising graduate degree attainment rates for students holding these identities. Join Eva Kostyu, Program Manager, AGU Bridge Program and Pranoti M. Asher, Assistant Director at AGU to learn more about the program and its impact.

Additional Resources

AGU Bridge resources:

• AGU Bridge Program website: https://www.agu.org/bridge-program
• Bridge partner map: https://media.agu.org/bridge/partnermap.html
• Guide of questions to consider during grad school interview: https://www.agu.org/-/media/d014cb14364a4a2ab27c8072567724a0.ashx
• Grad school flowchart: https://www.agu.org/-/media/files/learn-and-develop/bridge-program/bridge_program_flow_chart_final.pdf
• Dos and Don'ts for submitting a successful AGU Bridge partner proposal: https://www.agu.org/-/media/files/learn-and-develop/bridge-program/bridge_program_partners_dos_and_donts_infographic.pdf?la=en&hash=5711bb690d31a8cc2775a1c3e7d6d743
• contact: bridge@agu.org

Workshops and resources:

• Equity in Graduate Education Resource Center:  https://equitygraded.org/
• ADVANCEGeo: https://serc.carleton.edu/advancegeo/workshops/index.html
• CIMER: https://cimerproject.org/training/
• and CIMER's field-specific curricula: Mentorship Education for Field Geology
• AAAS Diversity and the Law resource: Diversity and the Law (aaas.org)

Additional Reading:

• First-year graduate courses foster inclusion (nsf.gov)
• Ten simple rules for building an anti-racist lab: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008210
• Reimagining STEM Workforce Development as a Braided River: https://eos.org/opinions/reimagining-stem-workforce-development-as-a-braided-river
• No progress on diversity in 40 years: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-018-0116-6
• Hostile climates are barriers to diversifying the geosciences: https://adgeo.copernicus.org/articles/53/117/2020/
• Applying an intersectionality lens to expand equity in the geosciences: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10899995.2019.1675131
• We Need Accomplices, Not Allies in the Fight for an Equitable Geoscience: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021AV000482