IBM Academic Initiative Program
The IBM Academic Initiative program was formed to better prepare students for information technology and jobs in computing. Students at an IBM Technical Briefing.
The IBM Academic Initiative provides numerous resources for students, parents, and teachers
(see http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/university/students/hispanic/index.html ).IEEE-Computer Society
UTEP and TAMU-CC worked with the Diversity committee from the IEEE-Computer Society and the leaders of the STARS Alliance to propose a pilot student leadership organization. The philosophy of the IEEE-CS Leadership Development (LeaD) student organization is to involve underrepresented students in an international organization that actively incorporates leadership and professional development. LeaD will incorporate leadership and professional skills in a cooperative team environment, focus on a rotating theme, and recruit and involve diverse communities.
Interactions with Other Groups
Texas Prefreshman Engineering Program, PREP-USA and Proyecto Acess. The Texas Prefreshman Engineering Program (TexPREP), a component of PREP-USA, provides a challenging academic program designed to motivate and prepare middle and high school students for success in advanced studies leading to careers in science, technology, engineering or mathematics fields. PREP-USA is a national program with an emphasis on increasing the number of women and underrepresented minorities in these fields. This program is available at 15 sites in Texas and through Proyecto Access (http://www.prep-usa.org/portal/proyecto/ ) in ten other cities nationwide
Minority-Serving Instituion CyberInfrastructure (CI) Empowerment Coalition (MSI-CIEC). Richard A. Alo and Alex Ramirez (HACU) have teamed with Geoffrey Fox, San Diego Supercomputer Center, NAFEO and AIHEC to create the newly NSF funded Minority Serving Instituion CyberInfrastructure (CI) Empowerment Coalition (MSI-CIEC) in conjunction with other national organizations and key leaders in CI whose mission is to enable training, access, education and research collaborations to meaningfully engage and advance Minority Serving Institutions in CI. MSI-CIEC curriculum and research implementations will work in complementary fashion with CAHSI.
Work with other Alliance programs. TAMU-CC and UTEP attended the STARS Alliance meeting to identify ways to capture the leadership development effort of the STARS Alliance and disseminate within CAHSI.HACU Voice article appeared on December 2007
