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The Early Identification Program for Graduate and Professional Studies encourages and assists UW undergraduates from educationally and economically disadvantaged backgrounds to enter graduate or professional school. However, earning a graduate or professional degree does not open doors. Let us explain. Graduate and professional education does more than open doors. Graduate and professional education teaches you how to identify doors that you may not have known existed. Graduate and professional education teaches you strategies for unlocking doors that appear closed to you. Graduate and professional education also helps you define the importance of opening the doors in question. Additionally, graduate and professional education helps you better understand the importance of leaving those doors open once you’ve passed through them. Since 1985, EIP has helped students identify their goals and develop strategies for obtaining admission to the nation's top graduate and professional programs. Our team of professional staff and graduate advisors has helped students from a variety of academic disciplines with every facet of the graduate school application process. Before encouraging you to proceed further, we offer a poetic interpretation of why you should consider a post-baccalaureate education, and thus continue exploring our website: Graduate and professional education. Matriculation into the great…beyond… These doors are…opportunity… Costs are high, benefits are…unity… In harmony are mind, text, and vision. The formerly excluded have…risen… From the margin, shift the…center… Your gaze, it’s…revolutionary… War against organized hypocrisy. The academy houses the learned leader and the influential…fool… Hardy decisions are daily…weighed… Heavy on the mind is…justice… For all our sakes, aspire to this higher level. Ordinary lives expose what lies…ahead… Strong currents of change ebb and…flow… Chart your course of action, strengthen your…resolve… Dilemmas are solved through advanced education. Choose…and define your situation. (S.P. Woodard, Copyright protected 2005) Among the many messages forwarded, you should walk away with several key understandings grounded in this poem: (1) participation in graduate/professional school is a purposeful act, (2) graduate/professional school is a thoughtful exercise in tension and connection, and (3) earning a graduate/professional degree is a personal experience, with community implications. Interested in affiliating?
EIP is sponsored by The Office of Minority Affairs with assistance from the Graduate School's Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP). |
