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Grassroots Efforts To Quantify and Improve the Academic Climate of an R1 STEM Department: Using Evidence-Based Discussions To Foster Community
Here, we present the outcomes of a graduate-student-led initiative that sought to assess the issues affecting inclusivity, diversity, and wellness within the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. We report how the results of a department-tailored academic climate survey were used to develop a method to foster open, productive discussion among graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Guiding Theories, Change Leaders, Assessment, Equity and Inclusion
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development:Diversity/Inclusion, Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning

Transformative Learning Networks: Guidelines and Insights for Netweavers
× Transformative Learning Networks: Guidelines and Insights for Netweavers ( This site may be offline. ) This report, aimed at designers and members of learning networks, explores how networks can foster ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Guiding Theories, Change Leaders
Resource Type: Report
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Policy Change, Inter-Institutional Collaboration

Curators and sojourners in learning networks: Practices for transformation
× Curators and sojourners in learning networks: Practices for transformation In this article Risien provides a framework for examining structures, roles and practices of networks, and particularly of roles ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Personnel/Hiring, Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Outreach:Policy Change

Program Re-Design Booklet
Program Re-Design Booklet Walks departments through program redesign for learner-centered curriculum. Very nice guide including backwards design and program level guidance, aligns well with PKAL framework. ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
Resource Type: Booklet
Program Components: Professional Development:Curriculum Development, Institutional Systems:Degree Program Development

Navigating institutional change for student success in STEM
Navigating institutional change for student success in STEM Suggested Citation Carey, S.J., Navigating institutional change for student success in STEM, Spring 2015, Vol.17, No.2.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders, Assessment
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development:Curriculum Development, Course Evaluation, Institutional Systems:Evaluating Teaching

Becoming Agents of Change in STEM Toolkit
Becoming Agents of Change in STEM Toolkit USC Center for Urban Education, with Dowd, Bensimon, Piqueux. The toolkit provides definitions of change/institutional/empowerment agents, case studies, vignettes, ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
Resource Type: Toolkit
Program Components: Professional Development, Institutional Systems, Outreach