What happened next? Reflections and career trajectories for discipline-based education specialists and next steps for embedded expertise at UBC.

Our poster presentation is rooted in the outcomes for change agents who have driven curricular, pedagogical, and cultural change in science and math departments as part of the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (CWSEI) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). We highlight the reflections of Science Teaching and Learning Fellows on their role as change agents in this long-term initiative and also discuss how the model of discipline-based education specialists has been scaled and sustained within our Science Centre for Learning and Teaching in more recent years. While the CWSEI and its model of department-based agents of change have appeared in earlier iterations of this conference, this work acts as a follow-up to earlier conclusions and scholarship (Chasteen et al., 2015; Chasteen & Code, 2018; Chasteen et al., 2020; Greenhoot et al., 2020; Wieman, 2017). Two key questions regarding the model are featured: 1) what impact does this type of position have on the change agent and their career trajectory, and 2) what happens at the institution after a 10-year initiative has concluded? In particular, we consider data collected from the agents of change themselves in a reflective survey and summary of subsequent career trajectories, as well as a look at how an ongoing, smaller-scale adaptation of this embedded model is currently organized and facilitated within our context. This poster will be of substantial interest to the various institutions that are currently involved or proposing this embedded type of model.