CIRTL INCLUDES: Toward an Alliance to Prepare a National Faculty for Broadening Success of Underrepresented 2-Year and 4-Year STEM Students

Lucas Hill, Assistant Researcher, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, lhill6@wisc.edu
Robert Mathieu, WCER Director, Professor of Astronomy, and Project PI; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Abstract

The purpose of this project is to build the foundation for a national cross-sector alliance that will increase the learning, persistence, and completion of URG STEM undergraduates across the entire higher education landscape, and thereby increase their contribution to the U.S. STEM enterprise. CIRTL INCLUDES will help develop STEM faculty, for all sectors of postsecondary education, able to use and adapt evidence-based, inclusive teaching, mentoring and advising practices that help underrepresented students succeed. There are three strategic goals: (1) deepen the preparation of all future STEM faculty in evidence-based teaching, mentoring, and advising practices that promote undergraduate success among underrepresented groups, (2) expand and strengthen faculty preparation specifically for 2-year colleges, where many students from underrepresented groups have their first STEM undergraduate experience, and (3) target the preparation of future underrepresented STEM faculty for effective teaching and mentoring, contributing to earlier success across the spectrum of their early-career responsibilities.

Poster

CIRTL INCLUDES (Acrobat (PDF) 730kB Jun15 17)