How Do We Start? Creating Equitable Undergraduate Degrees through Integrating and Scaffolding Research Throughout Curricula
Oct 16 2024 Join us for a webinar on creating equitable undergraduate degrees by integrating research throughout curricula. Panelists will share insights from a six-year study, offering practical tools and strategies for faculty and administrators leading systemic change in higher education.

The Change Leadership Toolkit for Advancing Systemic Change Webinar
Jun 17 2024 Discover the Change Leadership Toolkit: a groundbreaking project empowering higher education leaders with essential tools for systemic change. Join our webinar to explore research-based models, leader roles, and practical strategies for driving institutional transformation. Don't miss out on this opportunity to revolutionize higher education leadership!

STEM Leadership Series: Excellence, Catalysts for Change, and Inclusive Impact
Mar 18 - May 20, 2024 Transforming STEM necessitates a collaborative effort involving STEM professionals, policymakers, and stakeholders committed to taking actionable steps in cultivating a productive and inclusive community. Through the exploration of innovative ideas, curriculum materials, policy revisions, and network leveraging, leaders can drive meaningful changes to advance initiatives within their institutions. This series will delve into the strategies employed by influential leaders in the field who have successfully spearheaded the transformation of STEM.

An Instructional-Workforce Framework for Coordinated Change in Undergraduate Education Webinar
Jan 29 2024 How can we systemically support ALL who teach, including Visiting faculty, Instructors, Teaching assistants, Adjunct faculty, Lecturers (VITAL faculty) and full-time/non-contingent faculty? In this webinar, we will share an overview of the Instructional-Workforce Framework and build on it together, with a particular focus on its application toward justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion, and toward aligning incentives with systemic change, in participants' higher education contexts.

ASCN Community Welcome Call
Sep 27 2023 Charles Henderson, Western Michigan University; Kadian Callahan, Kennesaw State University; Andrea Beach, Western Michigan University; and Casey Wright, Western Michigan University
The ASCN Hub Members (Charles Henderson, Kadian Callahan, Andrea Beach, and Casey Wright), will welcome new and interested members into the ASCN community. We will begin with a brief network overview presentation and then offer time for new, new(ish), and interested network members to chat in smaller groups with the ASCN Hub about their interests and how the network can support them.

Co-Creating Systemic Change of Instructor Practices for Better Student Wellbeing and Academic Outcomes
Sep 19 2023 Allison Smith, New York University Jennifer Maltby, Rochester Institute of Technology
Join this session with the Action Network for Equitable Wellbeing for an interactive discussion that will briefly highlight key insights and explore synergies and potential collaboration between ANEW and ASCN.

Equity and care in departmental teaching evaluations: A Guided Discussion with Maha Bali
Dec 16 2022 Maha Bali, The American University in Cairo
We will be engaging in an interactive guided discussion on how instructors can incorporate equity as care into their teaching. How do you measure the success of this change, and how might this change influence the way that departments evaluate teaching?

The PULSE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Rubric: A Resource for Departmental Self-Assessment
Nov 15 2022 Kate Marley, Doane College; and Pamela Pape-Lindstrom; Harford Community College
The Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE) is a community of life sciences leaders committed to educational practices that best prepare undergraduate students to tackle 21st-century challenges. Recent events of violence, injustice, systemic racism, and the national movement to rethink how colleges and universities could address such inequities, has motivated PULSE to create the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Rubric to complement the original five rubrics (Brancaccio-Taras et al. 2016). The DEI Rubric was created for STEM departments' self-assessment of DEI efforts via: review of their practices and pedagogies; initiation of dialogue about departmental and institutional equity gaps; and determination of a departmental consensus score for each rubric criterion. The DEI rubric is also applicable to non-STEM departments. In this session, presenters will describe the use of the DEI Rubric and participants will engage with the rubric and discuss how to enhance DEI work in their department.

Empowering STEM departments to enact change through the PULSE Ambassadors Program
Sep 27 2022 Alix Fink, ; Sheela Vemu, Waubonsee Community College; Nitya Jacob, Oxford College of Emory University; and Gary Reiness, Lewis & Clark College
The PULSE Ambassadors Program is designed to inspire department-level transformation in STEM education through a two-day workshop with department faculty and follow-up support activities. A team of trained facilitators guides the department to build a shared vision for transformed undergraduate education by increasing ownership and collaboration in the visioning process. Rooted in biology-education reform efforts, the program supports departments across STEM disciplines and institution types as they undertake the challenge of providing equitable access to STEM education for all students. Participants in this session will learn about the goals, structure, and outcomes of the PULSE Ambassadors Program.

Defining Inclusive Teaching Practices
May 12 2022 This event is part of a series. More information about future events is coming soon... Thursday, May 12, 2022 9 am PT | 10 am MT | 11 am CT | 12 pm ET Presenters: Melissa M. Haswell, Associate Dean of Science and ...