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Session: : Decolonizing and Diversifying Ecology

INS 19-6 - Expanding inclusion to graduate studies in Brazil through a crash course in Ecology

Thursday, August 10, 2023
10:00 AM – 11:30 AM PDT
Location: 251
The Brazilian public postsecondary education system is meant to be accessible and free to all. However, the competitive entry process excludes those without access to high-quality, private basic education, leading to discrepancies in educational attainment. For example, despite self-identified black individuals comprising 54% of the population, only 15% of graduate students are black. To locally minimize this issue, we developed a crash course in Ecology designed for individuals from underprivileged backgrounds. In 2022, we taught nine students that would take the exams for an Ecology graduate program. Of those, six were accepted into the program.