Departmental Change: Engaging in a Change Initiative
Joel Corbo, University of Colorado Boulder; Courtney Ngai, Colorado State University; Gina Quan, San José State University; Sarah Wise, University of Colorado Boulder
The Departmental Action Team (DAT) Project supports departments as they make changes to their undergraduate programs. In previous posts, we described the principles that underlie the DAT Project and the initial stages of DAT formation. In this post, we'll share some of what DATs and facilitators do as they engage in a change initiative together. If you are interested in learning more, we are leading a free interactive webinar (Tuesday, March 30, 12-1:30pm EST) about facilitating change using the DAT model. Register for the webinar.

Connecting the Stakeholders: Departments, Policy, and Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education
Naneh Apkarian, Western Michigan University; Dana Kirin, Portland State University; Jessica Gehrtz, Colorado State University; Kristen Vroom, Portland State University
This article reports on major themes that arose from discussions at the Mathematical Association of America's Precalculus to Calculus: Insights and Innovations Conference.

The Science Education Initiative Handbook
Stephanie Chasteen and Warren Code
× The Science Education Initiative Handbook This book offers advice on implementing a department-level changes to curricula and instructional practices facilitated by Discipline-Based Educational Specialists ...

How can we help change leaders understand how measurement and data can be used?
David Bressoud, Macalester College
ASCN Working Group 4: Demonstrating Impact is trying something new. This group's mission is to identify, explain, and disseminate information on metrics that hold the potential to document, foster, accelerate, and communicate systemic change. Good questions are a great way to share and expand knowledge. Each month a question of interest and value to the higher education community will be sent to the working group members. Responses will be collated and posted on the ASCN blog. We hope that this will lead to beneficial collaborations not just among the members of the working group, but also across the network, and will reach the larger higher education community interested in systemic change. The assumption behind this group is that measurement and data are effective mechanisms for facilitating change. The question for this month has two parts. How can we help change leaders understand how measurement and data can be used? Can you give an example from your own experience where this has happened? Below are the first three responses received. Please use comment section to respond to the question and to engage in a discussion about the current responses. If there is a link or citation that you think would be of value to other readers, please include this as well. In addition, if there are any questions you would like Demonstrating Impact Working Group to address, please email those to Inese, the ASCN Project Manager.

Colorado Science Education Initiative
Colorado Science Education Initiative Programs at UBC and CU using disciplinary postdocs as "embedded experts" to instigate change across departments. Includes program outcomes and guidance for faculty. ...

ACHIEVING SYSTEMIC CHANGE: A SOURCEBOOK FOR ADVANCING AND FUNDING UNDERGRADUATE STEM EDUCATION
Catherine L. Fry, Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U)
This sourcebook is intended as a useful resource for allthose who have a stake in creating STEM solutions forUS society. It addresses the rationale for investing insystemic change throughout higher education, identifiescritical areas for investment, and provides pointers to keyreports and current STEM education reform efforts.

Misalignments: Challenges in Cultivating Science Faculty with Education Specialties in Your Department
Misalignments: Challenges in Cultivating Science Faculty with Education Specialties in Your Department This paper describes the role and potential contributions of science faculty with education specialties within ...

A Research-Based Foundation for Change Initiatives Using Instructional Development Teams
A Research-Based Foundation for Change Initiatives Using Instructional Development Teams Many recent grant-funded instructional improvement projects (e.g., AAU's STEM initiative, NSF WIDER and IUSE, HHMI ...

The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL): An Overview
The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL): An Overview The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL) is a National Science Foundation-funded network of ...

CIRTL: Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning
CIRTL: Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning This website explains the purpose, membership, activities, and publications associated with the Center for the Integration of Research, ...