MIE: The University of Texas at El Paso: A Model of Excellence

小行星9550502 德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校（UTEP）是西班牙裔教育的国家领导者。在17，000多名学生中，超过60%是代表性不足的少数民族，估计三分之二是他们家庭中第一次上大学。大约85%的UTEP学生来自埃尔帕索县，这是一个快速发展的城市地区，代表了许多西南部大城市，现在或很快就会有大部分人口由目前在科学，工程和数学（SEM）劳动力中代表性不足的群体组成。然而，UTEP的独特之处在于它是西南地区唯一一所主要的城市大学，其种族分布与其所服务的地区的人口相匹配。示范机构卓越（MIE）计划提供UTEP的机会，作为未来的城市大学的典范，一个使命，以服务于多元文化的人口，少数民族学生占多数。 UTEP的MIE项目将解决增加SEM学科学士学位数量的主要障碍：进入SEM学生的不可接受的高损耗。UTEP提出了一种动态的方法来满足入学学生的需求，这些需求将随着当地学校的改进计划而改变，例如NSF资助的埃尔帕索系统倡议，提高了地区学生在数学和科学方面的准备。UTEP的MIE计划将帮助一年级学生了解如何在大学取得成功，减少第一年课程的班级规模，并展示SEM学科的全貌以及这些领域提供的职业机会。最重要的是，通过MIE，UTEP的教师承诺的概念，他们负责超过课堂教学，他们还负责整个学生的发展和支持学习和个人发展的校园环境的创建。由于许多这些活动将利用本科生的导师和同伴导师，一个额外的好处将是提供有意义的工作经验的学生团体组成的人与财务责任，他们必须满足，而上学。 UTEP还将使用MIE加速将主动学习策略引入其所有SEM课程。这些策略包括合作学习、计算机辅助教学、英语写作课程与SEM课程的结合以及同伴教学。为了使主动学习和有效教学成为现实，MIE将通过努力修改教师奖励的主要决定因素，从研究到促进学习，作为改变教师使命和责任的催化剂。 MIE将提供资源，通过增加教师和工作人员以及升级学位课程的基础设施，丰富SEM课程的质量和数量，从而最大限度地增加SEM毕业生。MIE的一个目标是确保每个SEM学生至少参加一次专业的丰富经验，担任校内研究项目的研究助理或作为工业政府的实习生或合作学生。最后，MIE将通过提供资源来提高UTEP为学生提供建议的能力，跟踪他们的进步，并评估计划的有效性，从而影响大学的教育基础设施。 UTEP将通过在学术和学生事务的专业知识的独特组合管理MIE。首席研究员是工程教育的国家领导者，拥有管理大型跨学科项目的经验。Co-PI在学生事务领域带来了类似的经验。他们将与来自行业和政府的主要教师，管理人员和区域SEM领导人的咨询委员会合作，以改变UTEP SEM教育的本质。 2德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校

9550502 Riter The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a national leader in Hispanic education. Over 60 percent of its more than 17,000 students are underrepresented minorities and an estimated two-thirds are the first in their families to attend college. Approximately 85 percent of UTEP's students come from El Paso County, a fast growing urban region representative of many large southwestern cities that now have, or soon will have, a majority of their population composed of groups currently underrepresented in the science, engineering, and mathematics (SEM) workforce. UTEP, however, is unique in that it is the only major urban university in the Southwest whose ethnic distribution matches the demographics of the region it serves. The Model Institutions for Excellence (MIE) program provides UTEP the opportunity to serve as a model for the urban university of the future, one with a mission to serve a multicultural population where minority students comprise the majority. UTEP's MIE project will address the major impediment to increasing the number of bachelor's degrees in SEM disciplines: the unacceptably high attrition of entering SEM students. UTEP proposes a dynamic approach to meeting the needs of entering students, needs that will change as local school improvement programs, such as the NSF-funded El Paso Systemic Initiative, improve area students' preparation in mathematics and science. UTEP's MIE plan will help first-year students understand how to succeed in college, reduce class size in first-year courses, and present a broad picture of what SEM disciplines are about and the opportunities that careers in these fields provide. Most importantly, through MIE, UTEP's faculty commit to the concept that they are responsible for more than classroom instruction, that they are also responsible for the development of the entire student and the creation of an on-campus environment that supports learning and personal development. Since many of these activities will utilize undergraduates a s mentors and peer instructors, an additional benefit will be the provision of meaningful work experiences for a student body composed of people with financial responsibilities they must meet while attending school. UTEP will also use MIE to accelerate the introduction of active learning strategies into all of its SEM courses. Such strategies include cooperative learning, computer-assisted instruction, the linking of English composition courses with SEM courses, and peer instruction. To make active learning and effective teaching a reality, MIE will serve as a catalyst for a change in thinking about the mission and responsibilities of faculty by working to modify the major determinants of faculty rewards from research to the promotion of learning. MIE will provide resources to enrich the quality and increase the quantity of SEM programs through addition of faculty and staff and the upgrading of infrastructure in the degree programs likely to yield the greatest increase in SEM graduates. A goal of MIE will be to ensure that every SEM student participates at least once in a professional enrichment experience by serving as a research assistant in an on-campus research project or as an intern or co-op student in government of industry. Finally, MIE will impact the university educational infrastructure by providing resources to improve UTEP's ability to advise students, track their progress, and evaluate the effectiveness of programs. UTEP will manage MIE through a unique combination of expertise in academic and student affairs. The Principal Investigator is a national leader in engineering education with experience managing large interdisciplinary programs. The Co-PI brings similar experience in the student affairs area. They will work with an advisory committee of key faculty, administrators, and regional SEM leaders from industry and government to change the very nature of SEM education at UTEP. 2 University of Texas at El Paso