Conference Session

Student Diversity: attracting and retaining a diverse population of students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kelly Crittenden, Louisiana Tech University; Galen Turner, Louisiana Tech University; Alicia Boudreaux, Louisiana Tech University; James Nelson, Louisiana Tech University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

,2003). Furthermore, Preparing Our Children (NSB, 1999) urges partnerships betweenuniversities and local schools to increase the mathematics and science abilities of high schoolgraduates. TechSTEP directly addresses these concerns.“the University”’s STEM Talent Expansion Program (TechSTEP) has two major componentsthat will yield increased numbers of graduates in engineering, mathematics, and science. Onecomponent is a high school partnership program focused on recruiting new students into ourSTEM programs, while the other component is a summer enrichment and mentoring programfocused on increased retention of first-year college students. The recruiting component is an expansion of pilot