The purposes of the Internship Program are:

• to expand the pipeline of graduate evaluation students of color and recruit students who already have the basic research capacities and substantive knowledge about their area of concentration to extend their capacities to evaluation,
• to stimulate evaluation thinking concerning communities and persons of color by providing professional development training opportunities for social and natural science graduate students, and
• to deepen the evaluation profession´s capacity to work in racially, ethnically, and culturally diverse settings.

We seek graduate students of color who are not already enrolled in an evaluation program, and who:

• Will be enrolled this fall in either year 2 of a Master´s or year 2 or 3 of a combined masters/doctoral program,
• Have already been exposed to research methods and substantive issues in their field of expertise,
• Can demonstrate the relevance of evaluation training in their current work through a short essay, and
• Have support from his/her academic advisor.

Refer to the program´s website: http://www.educat ion.duq.edu/mastersCertification/diversity_inter_progr am.htm for more information about activities, information, and application materials.

Applications are due 15 August, 2006.

Since we expect to identify interested graduate students by late August, your timely consideration of this material would be appreciated.

For any questions, please contact :

Rodney K. Hopson (Director, AEA/DU Graduate Education Diversity Internship Program)Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Foundations and Leadership
School of Education
Duquesne University
600 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15282-0540
USA
+1 (412) 396 4034: voice
+1 (412) 396 1681: fax
hopson@duq.edu email