PROGRAM
HIGHLIGHTS
CCAAC
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Collaborated with the South Asian
Student Association to host the Annual
HOLI Festival of Colors to celebrate the
commencement of Spring with 1,400
attendees
IDEAL
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Received $20,000 grant from the CH
Foundation and an additonal $20,000
from the Haliburton Foundation to
provide young girls the opportunity to
attend Science: It’s A Girl Thing
MENTOR TECH
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Held the 14th Annual Mentor Tech
Celebration Banquet with guest speaker
Tatyana Ali with an audience of over 650
attendees
COLLEGE READINESS
Spring 2016 Fact Sheet
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UIL
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Regional Athletic and Academic
Competition events combined totaled
2,589 student participants
UPWARD BOUND
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Continued to provide resources and
support for student participants under
the $1.1 million 5-year grant to serve First
Generation, low-economic students at
the post-secondary level
Women’s Studies
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Hosted the 32nd annual conference on
the Advancement of Women with the
Director of Peace Corps as the Keynote
Speaker
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Collaborated with LISD to
host AVID night for
students in and around
the Lubbock region
Created new summer
partnerships with GEAR
UP and LULAC NESC
IDEAL
UPWARD BOUND
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Collaborated with 37
individual schools within
Lubbock county to
promote academic
awareness and
opportunities for K-12
students
Collaborated with units within the
DIDECE to welcome over 1,885
students, faculty and staff to
programming geared towards success
through engagement, leadership
and social change as an intiative of the
Diversity U Program
Provided academic
programming and
college preparation
courses to 220 students
served through the
Lubbock Region
CAMPUS
INCLUSION
PEGASUS/DIDECE
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Hosted the third annual Diversity Week Kick-Off Mixer to
celebrate the importance of diversity among the Texas Tech
community with 626 faculty, staff and students in attendance
MVP
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Continued to provide support services and resources to members
of MVP with the addition of the Stars and Stripes Lounge which
serves as a study and social area for military members, veterans,
and family
HSI INITIATIVE
For five consecutive sessions in the
Spring; faculty, staff, and community
stakeholders shared their personal
stories and experiences as a first
generation college student with a total of
930 students at the Conversations With
the Next Generation Speaker series
OCE
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CCAAC
PEGASUS
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OAE
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To support Texas Tech University’s goal of becoming a Hispanic Serving
Institution by the Fall of 2016, PEGASUS, Mentor Tech, the Office of
Community Engagement, IDEAL and the Cross-Cultural Academic
Advancement Center have worked strategically with the Office of
Admissions to target schools through outreach and engagement efforts
focused on K-12 institutions highly populated by Hispanics. In pursuit of
this goal, the Division has increased awareness, interest in and application
to Texas Tech University by students who identify as Hispanic/Latino and/
or Chicano.
Schools Served: 92
Students Served: 1,228
BY THE NUMBERS
DIDECE Spring 2016 Data
Chess Student Outreach
Mentor Tech Academic Workshops - Attendees
Mentor Tech Student Socials - Attendees
MVP - Students Receiving Federal Benefits
MVP - Students Receiving State Benefits
OCE (K-12) - Students Served
OAE - Collaborative Outreach Efforts with LISD: MS/HS Served
PEGASUS Academic Workshops - Attendees
PEGASUS Social Student Programming - Attendees
Student Support Service - Tutoring Session
UIL Regional Academic Competition Participants
2, 186
1,192
884
903
1,223
10,041
313
3,047
2,086
582
1,814
UIL Regional Athletic Competition Participants
Upward Bound Academic Saturday Attendance
775
245
Women’s Studies Course Enrollment
386
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2,000
4,000
6,000
8,000
10,000
12,000
RECOGNITION
CHESS
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Finished in third place
at the Final Four College
Chess National
Championship
Won the Pan-American
Chess Champtionship
for the first time at
TTU
Mentor Tech
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MVP
Recieved national
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recognition from The
Education Trust’s report
on graduation rates
among black students
Women’s Studies
Voted Best for Vets
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Colleges and Best for Vets
Business Schools for the
2016 Spring Semester
Received the TECAID award
to facilitate work with the
College of Mechanical
Engineering to develop
and design a program to
increase diversity
STUDENT SUPPORT
PEGASUS
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Offered 108 workshops and events
designed to support the academic retention
and student life success of FGC program
participants
MVP
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In an effort to ensure that all service
members, veterans, and their family
members are successful academically,
MVP conducted 753 individual academic
certification sessions with new and transfer
students and over 1,390 individual or
online academic certification sessions
with continuing students during the spring
semester
MENTOR TECH
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Offered 34 academic and social events
to support retention for proteges in
the program
STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES
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By meeting the number funded to
serve under the SSS grant, Upward
Bound has conducted 364 individual
academic and career advising sessions
and provided 582 individual in-person
and online tutoring sessions to assist
student academic progress and
success