INTEGRATED STEM INITIATIVE
ON THE SOUTH PLAINS
NSF INNOVATION THROUGH INSTITUTIONAL
INTEGRATION AT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
PROJECT PERSONNEL
• PI: Lawrence Schovanec, Provost
• Co-PI: Jaclyn Cañas-Carrell, Associate
Professor of Environmental Toxicology
• Co-PI: Jerry Dwyer, Professor of
Mathematics & Director of STEM-CORE
• Co-PI: Juan Muñoz, Senior Vice
President & Vice Provost
TIMELINE
PROJECT GOALS
• Increase the number of high quality, diverse high school and
community college students to enroll as STEM majors at TTU
• Create functioning math clubs at 20 k-12 schools across west Texas
• Create summer math academies at 10 k-12 schools across west Texas
• Create a long term recruitment specialist at TTU whose activities
would be coordinated with the Center for Undergraduate Research,
with the College of A&S, 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.
• Create a long term Coordinator of Outreach (CO) at TTU
• Increase the number of baccalaureate STEM degrees earned at TTU by
students from underrepresented groups
• Achieve an increase in the recruitment goals articulated for the
existing STEM programs
MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS
• Appointments of Coordinator & Assistant
Coordinator of STEM Outreach
• Establishment of STEM-CORE
• Tenure & Promotion Changes
• Institutionalization of Outreach
Programs
STEM-CORE
Agriculture
Arts & Sciences
STEM-CORE
Education
Engineering
Director
Administrator
Graduate School
Human Sciences
TTU OPERATING POLICIES ON T&P
T & P incentivizes the university's strategies to promote excellence in teaching,
expand and enhance research and creative scholarship, and to further notable
outreach and engagement.
Academic promotion and tenure are awarded to faculty who make continuing
contributions in the areas of teaching, research and creative activity, and
professional service, any of which may include outreach or engagement.
Faculty members are expected to make professional contributions through
service to the department, college, university, discipline at large, and, as
appropriate, to the broader community. These contributions to outreach and
engagement may include discipline-related activities in service to the immediate
community, to the state and region, and to society at large, as well as service in
one's department and across the university as advisers, committee members,
task force members, workshop and symposium participants, international
development grant participants, and similar types of activities.
OUTREACH PROGRAMS
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AMP/iSTEM
aSTEM
LAZARUS
TTU/LISD Middle School STEM Challenge
TTU SuMAc
TexPREP
CONTACT INFORMATION
Jerry Dwyer, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Director, STEM Center for Outreach, Research & Education
Texas Tech University
jerry.dwyer@ttu.edu
Levi Johnson, M.S.
Senior Project Administrator
STEM Center for Outreach, Research & Education
Texas Tech University
levi.johnson@ttu.edu
www.stem.ttu.edu