Program Design

The Science and Technology Educational Partnerships for Success program at UTB/TSC, better known as the STEPS program, proposes to address the needs of the predominately Hispanic student population of the South Texas region through collaboration with three regional community colleges: Texas State Technical College Harlingen, South Texas College in McAllen and Del Mar College in Corpus Christi. The STEPS program will:

• Enhance student transferability into bachelor's level science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, and applied technology programs
• Facilitate student support interventions to improve the transfer process
• Create an attractive pipeline for science majors to take coursework in bioinformatics and computer forensics
• Create an endowment that will provide scholarships and incentives to bolster student persistence in higher-education pursuits