The Atlanta-based nonprofit SREB hosts the event along with the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education (WICHE), based in Boulder, Colo., and participating colleges, universities and state agencies. Other participating programs in the institute are the National Institutes of Health’s Bridges to the Professoriate, the National Science Foundation’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and U.S. Education Department’s Ronald E. McNair Program.

