Funding Your Initiative Through Collaboration

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Funding Your Initiative Through Collaboration

• Funding Your Initiative Through Collaboration
• Women and ICT Creating Global Transformations
• June 13, 2005
• Tegwin Pulley
• Vice President
• Texas Instruments
• t-pulley_at_ti.com

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Funding Your Project

• Three Examples
• Women of TI Fund
• Texas Engineering and Technical Consortium (TETC)
  www.tetc.us
• DFW Semiconductor Executive Council (DFW SEC)
  www.destinationdigital.org

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Women of TI Fund Mission
Charter

• Expand science, technology, engineering and math
  (STEM) education for girls.

Goal
Increase the number of girls graduating from high
school eligible to enter a university-level
degree program in Science, Technology,
Engineering or Math (STEM).

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TI and the Dallas Womens Foundation History of
Funding

• In 1996, TI committed funds to the Dallas Womens
  Foundation of 40,000 per year for three years to
  fund STEM programs for girls and women. Over 10
  years, TI has committed 400,000 in funding
  through Dallas Womens Foundation Grants.
• In 2000, TI women officers and fellows formed the
  Women of TI Fund by committing personal dollars
  to increase the number of girls prepared for STEM
  careers by establishing a donor advised endowment
  through the Dallas Womens Foundation.
  Commitments to the endowment total 264,000
  toward a goal of 500,000.
• In 2003, the TI Foundation, impressed with the
  personal commitment of TI women, began funding
  programs championed by the Women of TI. Grants
  to date total 141,000.

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Moving Toward Our Vision

• Students Summer AP Physics Camps for Girls
• Counselors High Tech High Heels Workshops
• Teachers Gender Equity Training for Teachers
• - Pilot programs conducted with Advanced
  Placement (AP) Strategies and the University of
  Texas at Arlington
• - National gender equity expert, Jo Sanders,
  developed and led training sessions for AP
  teachers in the Dallas Independent School
  District.

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Results and Early Indicators

• Measurement of Advanced Placement enrollment
  and exam scores continues. Previous to our work,
  AP Strategies found that DISD girls with the same
  SAT math scores had AP Physics test scores 30
  below the boys.
• Results
• Increased enrollment of girls in AP Physics
  
• Girls in project teachers classes performed
  much better on in AP Physics tests than girls in
  non-project teachers classes.

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Results and Early Indicators

• Comments from teachers in the programs
• my teaching has been adjusted. No longer do
  boys get most of the attention in classgirls are
  interjecting comments and asking questions more
  than ever beforeboys no longer monopolize the
  equipment
• This project has identified a very real problem
  that exists in our classroomI have dispelled
  the myth that girls cant think Physics in my
  classroom.
• This year, I dont feel like I left anyone
  behind. I shifted focus from lecture to
  problem-solvingand it seems the girlsfeel more
  confident working in the small groups.
• The level of participation among the girls has
  improved. This year I have one Advanced Placement
  Physics class with an enrollment of 13. Next
  year, my estimate is approx. 26-30 students will
  be enrolled. Over 70 of the students who have
  opted to take Advanced Placement Physics C next
  year are girls.

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Plans

• New Vision A STEM Gender-Equity Institute
• Focus on training teachers
• Move programs from incubation stage to mature
  university for systemic growth and development.
• Integrate both teacher education and in service
  training with the goal of systemic change.
• Request for institute proposals from Universities
  
• Continue
• Physics summer camps for girls
• High Tech High Heels workshops for
  counselors

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TETC was formed by the Texas Legislature and
Governor Rick Perry as an innovative
public-private partnership to increase the number
of engineering and computer science graduates in
Texas.

• TETC brings the right parties to the table.
• Government The Texas Higher Education
  Coordinating Board
• Higher Education 34 colleges and universities
  throughout the state
• Industry Advanced Micro Devices, Applied
  Materials, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Intel,
  Lockheed Martin, National Instruments, SBC and
  Texas Instruments.
• The state has appropriated funds to match
  non-state contributions. To-date, funding from
  the state, foundations and the federal
  government, TETC has created a pool of about
  17.5 million.
• Through Technology Workforce Development grants,
  TETC funds recruiting and retention strategies
  including outreach to women and
  under-represented groups, community college
  partnerships, internships, mentoring and
  curriculum revision.

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• TETC began sponsoring Best Practices workshops.
• TETC provides industry members with an All Across
  Texas intern database with resumes of the top
  students in electrical engineering and computer
  science from all 34 schools.
• The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
  measures the results of TETC.
• Results
• Electrical engineering enrollment is up 7
• Computer Science is down 22 - unable to offset
  negative media messages.

On going commitment to TETC is critical to
increasing the quality and quantity of graduates
in Texas.
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DFW Semiconductor Industry/Education Cluster

• Regional partnership focused on
  Pre- K to PhD
• Programs
  
• Career Awareness
  Educator and Student internships
  Training for students and teachers Speakers
  bureau Curriculum
  development
• Measurement
  Increased STEM enrollments
• Partners
  8 Semiconductor Companies
  Education Pre- K to PhD
  Workforce Board
  Chamber of Commerce
  2.3 million
  in funding to-date

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Common Themes

• Collaboration is key to
• Accomplishing goals
• Securing funding
• Possible partners include
• Industry, education and government or
  foundations, and even individuals
• All must see the benefits
• Strategies to increase women in science,
  technology, engineering and math can be included
  in other initiatives
• Demonstrating measurable improvement is key to
  funding