PLN: Women in SMET Undergraduate Programs (WISUP)

田纳西中部州立大学正在利用一笔规划拨款来设计一个示范项目，WISUP@MTSU(女性在SMET本科生项目@MTSU)。项目小组正在调查和确定最佳做法，以吸引和留住科学、数学、工程和技术领域的所有领域的女性，并在MTSU已有的成功项目的基础上再接再厉。其目标是设计一项技术密集型和支持性计划，以吸引和留住高三和本科生进入MTSU的SMET专业。WISUP团队的经验、技术和科学人才，以及基础和应用科学学院和该大学的大力支持，将导致成功的规划拨款，并在下一个NSF/PGE资助周期提交完整的示范提案。MTSU目前在SMET学科毕业的女性比例略低于全国女性比例，但在整个大学范围内，本科生和研究生的大多数都是女性(54%)。该机构位于独特的位置，为农村和城市、低收入和第一代学生提供服务。密歇根州立大学毕业的教师也比田纳西州的任何一所大学都多(占全州教师总数的25%以上)。拟议的完整计划不仅应惠及潜在的SMET学生，还应包括能够鼓励他们的学生考虑SMET专业和职业的公立学校教师。

Middle Tennessee State University is using a planning grant to design a demonstration program, WISUP@MTSU, (Women in SMET Undergraduate Programs @ MTSU). The project team is investigating and identifying the best practices to attract and to retain women in all fields of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology and to to build on successful programs already in place at MTSU. The goal is to design a technology intensive and supportive program to attract and to retain high school senior and undergraduate freshmen women into SMET disciplines at MTSU. The experience, technical and scientific talents of the WISUP Team and the strong support from the College of Basic and Applied Sciences and the university will result in a successful planning grant and the submission of a full demonstration proposal in the next NSF/PGE funding cycle.MTSU is currently graduating slightly less than the national percentage of women in the SMET disciplines, yet university-wide the majority of both undergraduate and graduate students are female (54%). The institution is uniquely situated to serve rural and urban, low-income, and first generation students. MTSU also graduates more teachers than any university in Tennessee (more than 25% of all teachers in the entire state). The full program to be proposed should reach not only potential SMET students but also public school teachers who can encourage their student to consider SMET majors and careers.