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2005 Conference

- Program Schedule

Role Models Project

- Nomination Form

Internship Program

- Application Form

THE APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR THE SUMMER 2005 MINORITY ACCESS INTERNSHIP PROGRAM HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO APRIL 1, 2005

RICHES Program

- Application Form

Associate Program

- Application Form

Disclaimer Notice

Minority Access, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization that supports individuals, institutions, federal, state, and local government agencies, and various corporations to diversify campuses and work sites by improving the recruitment, retention and enhancement of minorities.

Minority Access, Inc. also provides technical assistance to minorities and minority-serving institutions in order to improve the higher educational, professional and managerial employment of minorities.

Minority Access, Inc. has a Cooperative Agreement with the Office of Minority Health, supported by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help close the health disparities gap, a goal to which NIH has accorded the highest priority. Our mission is to do our part in saving lives and reducing suffering for humanitarian reasons while concomitantly serving the interests of colleges and universities and of our nation. Specifically, our goal is to increase the participation of minorities in biomedical research by identifying and honoring minority students and their supporters of any race. Since minorities are more likely to conduct research on and find cures for illnesses that afflict minorities, the end result should be a narrowing of the health disparities gap, a gap that is currently wide.

We believe this highly successful model can be used to assist institutions committed to recruiting, retaining and graduating minorities in identifying high potential minority talent, recruit minority students and support them in their research. Minority Access offers a wide variety of services through its Associate Program to these institutions, including honoring outstanding achievers as role models worthy of emulation.