This proposal requests resources to continue eorts by the Society for Political Methodology to support under-funded graduate students, expand mentoring and networking eorts for women and under-represented minorities, and to develop new inclusive programs for making the subfield more accessible to groups with historically lower participation in the activities of the subfield. We intend to leverage our strengths in conference organization, journal management, mentoring, and training, to help correct an imbalance whereby some groups have not or could not pursue scholarship in cutting-edge quantitative political science. While we have made documented gains in attracting and retaining women and minorities over the last four years as a result of the 2007 NSF award, we see
room and considerable opportunity for additional progress. In the proposed initiatives, the Society for Political Methodology and our university partners provide a large part of the required resources, and we are asking for continued support from the National Science Foundation as the final piece that helps ensure continued and expanding success.

Our objectives are to: (1) ensure that qualified, but insufficiently-funded graduate students can attend and participate in our highly successful Summer methodology meetings, (2) continue holding small thematically oriented meetings that emphasize particular technical skills and foster a high level of networking and mentoring, (3) continue a series of small meetings for women methodologists
that deliberately mix senior leaders in the subfield with young, emerging scholars who can benefit substantially from such close personal interaction, and (4) initiate a one-semester-leave program for women who seek to substantially upgrade their methods skills by spending time in high-intensity methods environment.