Improving opportunities for student learning in large enrollment undergraduate STEM courses through the development of instructional team members that focus independently on classroom management and student thinking
Jonathan Cox, The University of Arizona
While overwhelming evidence in support of active learning has propelled many undergraduate courses toward transformation, instructors often encounter implementation challenges in large enrollment introductory STEM ...

Reforming core education in the Clark Honors College: Scaffolding liberal arts understanding in freshman and sophomore honors students
Samantha Hopkins, University of Oregon; Rebecca Lindner, University of Oregon; David Frank, University of Oregon; Daphne Gallagher, University of Oregon; Melissa Graboyes, University of Oregon; Gabriel Paquette, University of Oregon; Carol Paty, University of Oregon
The Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon teaches a liberal arts curriculum within the broader research university. During our external review, we realized that our core education curriculum needed ...

Facilitating Departmental, Programmatic, and Curricular Change through Traveling Workshops
Mitchell Bender-Awalt, Carleton College; David Blockstein, Bard College; Diane Doser, University of Texas at El Paso; Anne Egger, Central Washington University; Heather Macdonald, College of William and Mary; Cathy Manduca, Carleton College; Dallas Rhodes, Humboldt State University; Catherine Riihimaki, 2NDNATURE Software
Academic departments and programs in higher education face challenges in adapting to shifting institutional priorities, fluctuating budgets, evolving research landscapes, and changing employment prospects for ...

Leading departmentally-based change initiatives: The Science Education Initiative Handbook
Stephanie Chasteen, University of Colorado at Boulder
Educational change efforts focused at the department level can be particularly powerful. Positive outcomes, however, are not automatic. This poster will share some of the big lessons-learned from the Science ...

Understanding and Enacting Math Department Change: An Approach in Four Frames
Naneh Apkarian, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus
This poster reports on the analysis of a longitudinal study of change in a university mathematics department which revitalized and improved their precalculus/calculus program by implementing a series of strategies, ...