ISISP: Integrated STEM Initiative on the South Plains

德克萨斯理工大学（TTU）有许多科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育推广计划，这些计划在招收新生和指导来自代表性不足群体的STEM学生方面重叠。 通过“南部平原综合STEM倡议”（ISISP），TTU正在为K-12的推广，招聘和指导提供更多的资源和机构支持，从而加强和支持现有的STEM教育推广计划。 ISISP的主要重点是建立一个长期的基础，使整个南平原的K-12学生被吸引到TTU学习STEM学科。 ISISP通过一名外展教员和一名招聘人员为现有的外展和辅导计划提供行政支持，该招聘人员访问整个西德克萨斯州的K-12学校和社区学院，目的是介绍STEM活动并增加TTU目前资助的项目的参与。 最终目标是在正在进行的项目之间提供更大的协调和一致性，以便参加这些活动的STEM和教育教师正式联系在一起，作为TTU外展网络，TTU管理部门致力于就教师奖励外展工作的性质进行对话。 对ISISP的强有力的机构支持来自TTU的总裁，艺术科学学院院长和机构多样性，公平和社区参与副总裁。通过整合多个项目的活动，ISISP是： 1. 增加高质量，多样化的高中和社区大学的学生谁在TTU注册为STEM专业的数量。 2. 在德克萨斯州西部的20所K-12学校建立起有效的数学俱乐部。 3. 在德克萨斯州西部的10所K-12学校建立夏季数学学院。 4. 在TTU创建一个长期的STEM招聘专家，其活动将与本科生研究中心，艺术科学学院以及TTU的机构多样性和社区参与部门协调，该部门负责监督学术课程的招聘，同化和保留来自服务不足人群的学生。 5. 在TTU设立一个长期的外联协调员。 6. 增加来自代表性不足群体的学生在TTU获得的学士学位STEM学位的数量。 7. 超过现有STEM计划的招聘目标。 8. 消除TTU外展方案之间的重叠。 9. 为TTU的行政部门制定一项正式提案，以表彰和奖励作为任期和晋升过程一部分的外联工作。 10. 在每个参与学校内创建一个正式的途径，从高中到大学学位的STEM学科的进展。“南平原综合STEM倡议”汇集了来自GK-12，MSP，诺伊斯奖学金和S-STEM项目的NSF/EHR奖项，以及其他工作，围绕通过机构整合创新的综合主题，以扩大参与和关键的教育结合点。

Texas Tech University (TTU) has a number of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) educational outreach programs that overlap in the area of recruiting new students and in the mentoring of STEM students from underrepresented groups. Through an "Integrated STEM Initiative on the South Plains" (ISISP), TTU is providing increased resources and institutional support for K-12 outreach, recruitment, and mentoring, thereby enhancing and supporting the existing STEM educational outreach programs. The major focus of ISISP is to build a long term base whereby K-12 students across the South Plains are attracted to study STEM disciplines at TTU. ISISP provides administrative support for existing outreach and mentoring programs through an outreach faculty member and a recruiter who visits K-12 schools and community colleges throughout west Texas for the purpose of presenting STEM activities and increasing participation in TTU's currently funded projects. The ultimate goal is to provide greater coordination and coherency among ongoing programs so STEM and Education faculty who participate in these activities are being formally linked together as a TTU outreach network and TTU administration has committed to a dialogue on the nature of faculty reward for outreach work. Strong institutional support for ISISP comes from the President of TTU, the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and the Vice President for Institutional Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement. By integrating the activities of multiple projects, ISISP is: 1. Increasing the number of high quality, diverse high school and community college students who enroll as STEM majors at TTU. 2. Creating functioning math clubs at 20 K-12 schools across west Texas. 3. Creating summer math academies at 10 K-12 schools across west Texas. 4. Creating a long term STEM recruitment specialist at TTU whose activities would be coordinated with the Center for Undergraduate Research, with the College of Arts & Sciences, and with TTU's Division of Institutional Diversity and Community Engagement, which has oversight of academic programs for recruiting, assimilating, and retaining students from underserved populations. 5. Creating a long term Coordinator of Outreach (CO) at TTU. 6. Increasing the number of baccalaureate STEM degrees earned at TTU by students from underrepresented groups. 7. Exceeding recruitment goals articulated for the existing STEM programs. 8. Eliminating overlap between TTU outreach programs. 9. Establishing a formal proposal for the administration at TTU for the recognition and reward of outreach work as part of the tenure and promotion process. 10. Creating a formal pathway within each participating school to progress from high school to a college degree in the STEM disciplines.The "Integrated STEM Initiative on the South Plains" brings together NSF/EHR awards from the GK-12, MSP, Noyce Scholarship and S-STEM programs, as well as other work, around the Innovation through Institutional Integration integrative themes for broadening participation and critical educational junctures.