The Alliance
The University of Florida, Howard University, the University of Maryland at College Park, the University of Miami, and the North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have established the Atlantic Coast Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (AC-SBE) Alliance.

The five participating schools in the Alliance are already among the national leaders in producing URM Ph.D. recipients in SBE disciplines.  When the national figures are examined, the need to address the disproportionate production of URM doctoral recipients in SBE disciplines becomes clear. Of the total 6,777 Ph.D. recipients in SBE disciplines for 2003, only 655 or 9.7% was African American, Hispanic, or Native American. Yet, these groups comprise 28% of the U.S. population.  The AC-SBE Alliance will work to increase, by 25 percent, the number of underrepresented minority (URM) Ph.D. recipients in SBE fields who will enter the professoriate. 

The AC-SBE Alliance schools are committed to unique as well as collective activities.  We welcome you to explore the Alliance & each individual university: 

Building on the AGEP Framework
A unique feature of the AC-SBE Alliance is that four of the five schools are participants in the NSF-funded Alliance for Graduate Education for the Professoriate (AGEP) program. AGEP focuses on increasing the numbers of underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. The relationships that were established through AGEP will facilitate the inclusion of more SBE programs at additional schools.