Student Guidebook 2012 (PDF) - College of Engineering - The ...

Diversity ProgramsOffice of Diversity ProgramsMr. Travis Griffin, Director110 Estabrook Hall, Knoxville, TN 37996-2360Telephone: 865-974-1931http://www.engr.utk.edu/diversityTennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for MinorityParticipation (TLSAMP)Tennessee State University, LeMoyne-Owen College, MiddleTennessee State University, University of Memphis, Universityof Tennessee and Vanderbilt University partneredto form the Tennessee Louis Stokes Alliance for MinorityParticipation (TLSAMP). The goal of the TLSAMP programis to increase the number of under-represented minoritystudents studying and graduating in Science, Technology,Engineering and Math (STEM).The objectives to support the goal of the alliance are to:science or engineering as a career;under-represented minority science and engineeringstudents at all schools; andare prepared to enter graduate school.Programs/ServicesRetention EffortsNational GEM ConsortiumThe University of Tennessee is a proud member of theNational Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities inEngineering and Science, Inc. (GEM). The mission of GEMis to attract a pool of African American, Hispanic Americanand American Indian talent to careers in the fields ofScience, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)by promoting the attainment of advanced degrees.Each year, GEM identifies and recruits more than 1,000undergraduate students, graduate students and workingprofessionals from these underrepresented groups foradmission to advanced degree programs at the nation’stop universities. GEM provides graduate students withmuch-needed financial support that is often the decidingfactor in pursuing graduate education through threegraduate fellowship tracks:12