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Fostering Change from Within: Influencing Teaching Practices of Departmental Colleagues by Science Faculty with Education Specialties
× Fostering Change from Within: Influencing Teaching Practices of Departmental Colleagues by Science Faculty with Education Specialties Science faculty with education specialties often have a role in ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Professional Development:Pedagogical Training

Improving the Academic Climate of an R1 STEM Department: Quantified Positive Shifts in Perception
This study confirms the positive outcomes of having a practical, sustainable, and data-driven framework for affecting change within a graduate community.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment, Change Leaders, Guiding Theories, Policy, Costs and Benefits, Equity and Inclusion, Faculty Evaluation
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Incentive/Reward Systems, Strategic Planning, Supporting Students:Learning Communities, Scholarships, Grants, Workstudy, Institutional Systems:Degree Program Development, Supporting Students:Academic Support, Professional Development:Diversity/Inclusion

Evaluating Discipline-Based Education Research for Promotion and Tenure
Evaluating Discipline-Based Education Research for Promotion and Tenure As the number of DBER faculty members in STEM departments grows, the purpose of this essay is to facilitate the evaluation of scholarly ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Change Leaders, Faculty Evaluation
Resource Type: Journal Article

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.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Guiding Theories, Change Leaders, Policy
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Interdepartmental Collaboration, Degree Program Development, Professional Development:Curriculum Development

Shaping the Future of Higher Education: Practical, Community-Driven Initiatives to Improve Academic Climate
In this Editorial, we present the history and details of a collaborative effort to improve the academic climate of the Department of Chemistry at University of California, Berkeley.

Change Topics (Working Groups): Policy, Assessment, Change Leaders, Guiding Theories, Costs and Benefits, Equity and Inclusion, Faculty Evaluation
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Outreach:Policy Change, Supporting Students:Academic Support, Institutional Systems:Evaluating Promotion and Tenure, Incentive/Reward Systems, Professional Development:Cultural Competency, Diversity/Inclusion, Advising and Mentoring, Institutional Systems:Strategic Planning, Supporting Students:Learning Communities, Institutional Systems:Interdepartmental Collaboration, Supporting Students:Student Engagement, Institutional Systems:Degree Program Development

Four frames for systemic change in STEM departments
× Four frames for systemic change in STEM departments Aimed specifically at change agents operating at the department level, this short article outlines four areas that change agents should focus on -- ...

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

America's Overlooked Engineers: Community Colleges and Diversity in Engineering Education
America's Overlooked Engineers: Community Colleges and Diversity in Engineering Education Summary of findings from Engineer of 2020 surveys to capitalize on community college as fruitful grounds for ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Supporting Students:Student Engagement, Outreach:Student Recruiting, Institutional Systems

Framing processes and social movements: An overview and assessment
Framing processes and social movements: An overview and assessment A seminal article in sociology/social movements on importance of framing for mobilizing populations for social change. Suggested Citation Benford, ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Guiding Theories
Resource Type: Journal Article
Program Components: Outreach:Informal Education

Cooperative Learning resources
Cooperative Learning resources Cover a range of cooperative group work in engineering. Suggested Citation Smith, K.A. (n.d.) RESOURCES: Books, Articles, Presentations and Workshop. Retrieved from ...

Change Topics (Working Groups): Assessment
Resource Type: Book Section, Website, Journal Article, Presentation
Program Components: Supporting Students:Student Engagement

Effective practices in undergraduate STEM: Examining the evidence
Effective practices in undergraduate STEM: Examining the evidence NRC and WCER collaboration to examine the current state of knowledge about "promising practices" in undergraduate STEM education. ...

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