Problems and Successes with NSF Scholarship Grant

Abstract

In an attempt to attract minority and first-generation college students to engineering, math, and computer science degrees, the National Science Foundation funded several Scholarship programs. Texas Tech University competed and received one of these grants. This grant has been a major benefit to minority students who met the qualifications. Initially all students had to be eligible for a Pell Grant or Title IV need if they went to graduate school. We had difficulty in finding students with this severe degree of financial need. This requirement was later relaxed, and we have been successful in finding qualified students to award scholarships.