Student Learning & Engagement

Focusing on graduate school preparation, Wayne State University McNair Scholars Program demystifies the graduate school application process and provides you with a simulated graduate school experience, including research. The program offers a scholarly environment whereby you receive academic, financial and social support.

As a McNair Scholars, you will:

• Engage in Research. Participants conduct research under the guidance of a Faculty Mentor. Quality research projects provide a realistic picture of graduate school scholarship, while also preparing students for the doctoral school climate.

• Participate in an Intense Summer Internship. Students participate in a 8-week summer program during which they continue individual research projects, attend a graduate school seminar, and participate in a graduate school visitation program.

• Study Research Theories, Research Methods and/or Research Ethics. Students either enroll in a research methodology course or attend a research methodology/research ethics workshop. The course/workshop enables students to augment their research experience from a practical, a theoretical and an ethical perspective.

• Develop & Deliver Professional Research Presentations . Each student culminates his/her McNair Program experience by presenting his/her research at the McNair Summer Program Research Symposium. In addition, students have the opportunity to travel to additional McNair conferences nationwide and to network with graduate school representatives, as well as McNair scholars from across the country.

• Attend Graduate School Preparation Seminars and Workshops . Students attend weekly graduate school seminars and/or workshops that focus on specific topics designed to demystify the graduate school application process, including how to identify the graduate programs that “fit” their needs and interests preparation for the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), and how to excel in graduate school.

• Visit Graduate Schools and Meet with Graduate Faculty Members. Students travel to various graduate schools throughout the country to examine institutions and departments as possible graduate school destinations.