About the Alabama Alliance for Graduate Education
and the Professoriate

The Alabama Alliance for Minority Participation (AAMP) program began in 1991 with eight Historically Black Colleges and Universities and The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Conceived and initiated by ten Black faculty members at these institutions with Ph.D. degrees in mathematics and science, the Alliance had a single goal of significantly increasing the number of minorities receiving bachelor degrees in science, engineering and mathematics in Alabama and parts of Mississippi. Today the Alliance is known as the Alabama Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (ALSAMP) and its membership has increased to twelve and includes all of the major colleges and universities in Alabama.

The Alabama Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AAGEP) was formed in 1998 with the same partner institutions as ALSAMP in order to promote underrepresented minority students obtaining graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), particularly groups that historically have been underrepresented.   Since the beginning of the alliance in 1998, the AAGEP Project has seen a doubling of STEM Ph.D. graduates.