Academic Pathway Programs

Academic Pathway Programs is an intentional and deliberate infrastructure to improve efforts in recruiting, retaining, and developing underrepresented applicants in medicine (UiM) and the STEM workforce.

Housed within The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, we are building an educational ecosystem that connects high school, college, and PhD and MD-PhD students in empowering educational and scientific activities, while simultaneously providing many students with exposure and access to science-based research that they would otherwise lack. Our work includes curated outreach and community engagement activities as well as oversight of research-based K-12, undergraduate, and graduate programs.

We envision that Academic Pathway Programs will create and evolve additional science- and medicine-based programs through partnerships with local and national organizations, post-secondary institutions and nonprofit agencies to drive the success of all students, especially those from communities with limited access.

For more information, please contact odei-pathways@wustl.edu.