PLN: Women in SMET Undergraduate Programs (WISUP)

中田纳西州立大学正在利用一笔规划赠款设计一个示范方案，WISUP@MTSU（中小企业和技术大学本科生方案中的妇女）。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、工程和技术所有领域的妇女，并在MTSU已经实施的成功方案的基础上再接再厉。其目标是设计一个技术密集和支持性方案，以吸引和留住高中高年级和本科新生进入MTSU的SMET学科。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大学的大力支持将导致成功的规划赠款和下一个NSF/PGE资助周期的完整演示提案的提交。MTSU目前毕业的女性比例略低于全国的SMET学科，然而，在整个大学中，大部分本科生和研究生都是女生（54%）。该机构的独特之处在于为农村和城市，低收入和第一代学生提供服务。MTSU毕业的教师比田纳西州的任何一所大学都多（超过全州所有教师的25%）。提出的完整方案不仅应触及潜在的中小企业学生，还应触及公立学校教师，他们可以鼓励学生考虑中小企业专业和职业。

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.