Education

The Transition to Teaching program recruits UA graduates in science, technology, engineering and math who want to make a difference in the lives of young people living along the border. Preparing to become STEM teachers, the fellows spend their summer gearing up to start full-time teaching jobs. The fellows travel along the border as well as conduct field-based coursework there.

The UA's Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs attract nationally and internationally known and competitive students and scholars. The programs raise the institution's visibility and notoriety, said Andrew Carnie, the UA Graduate College dean and GIDP faculty director. In this Q&A, Carnie answers questions about what makes the UA's GIDPs unique.

UA anthropology major Magda Mankel has investigated the experiences of immigrants traveling along the U.S.-Mexico border from a sociocultural and archaeological perspectives. Mankel hopes that studying peoples' discarded and deserted artifacts will better inform sociopolitical conditions and the broader human experience.

Helping expand Arizona's college-going culture, the UA College Academy for Parents graduated nearly 80 parents in its 10th year. Since its inception, the parents of more than 1,190 children have completed the program, which teaches them how to prepare their children for college - and prepare financially - before they graduate from high school.