Presentations: Session V
Presentations: Session V Thursday 9:30 am â 9:55 am PT / 10:30 am â 10:55 am MT / 11:30 am â 11:55 am CT / 12:30 pm â 12:55 pm ET Online Concurrent Session A ...

Driving Change by Building Faculty Leaders and Fostering Community College Partnerships
Holly Godsey, University of Utah; Jordan Gerton, University of Utah; Allyson Rocks, University of Utah
UPSTEM (Utah Pathways to STEM) is an HHMI Inclusive Excellence project at the University of Utah and Salt Lake Community College to build capacity for supporting people from diverse backgrounds. The project ...

Intentional Diversification of a Multi-institutional Community of Practice Network
Tracie Reding, University of Nebraska at Omaha; Kelly Gomez Johnson, University of Nebraska at Omaha
This presentation will highlight the process the COMunities for Mathematics Inquiry in Teaching Network (COMMIT) developed to ensure diversification in their second round of on-boarding regional COMMITs. This ...

When Seeing is Believing: Generalizability and Decision Studies for Observational Data in Evaluation and Research on Teaching
Tim Weston, University of Colorado at Boulder; Charles Hayward, University of Colorado at Boulder; Sandra Laursen, University of Colorado at Boulder
Structured classroom observations are widely used in research and evaluation of STEM classrooms to characterize teaching and learning activities. Because conducting observations is typically resource intensive, it ...

Session VIII
Session VIII Thursday 1:10 pm â 1:35 pm PT / 2:10 pm â 2:35 pm MT / 3:10 pm â 3:35 pm CT / 4:10 pm â 4:35 pm ET Online Concurrent Session Elevating Student ...

Elevating Student Experience to Transform STEM Education
Samantha Levine, APLU; Laurel Hartley, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center; Sushilla Knottenbelt, University of New Mexico-Main Campus
Over a decade of research on learning mindsets – such as belonging, growth mindset, and purpose – demonstrates that positive experiences of community, belonging, and academic support on campus and in the ...

Pooling Knowledge for Rapid Response: Covid-19 Prompted a Network of Research Universities to Share Best Practices for Assessing Student Learning Online
Joshua Potter, University of Kansas Main Campus; Linda Slakey, University of Massachusetts-Amherst; Doug James, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The sudden and wholesale shift in March 2020 away from brick-and-mortar classrooms and toward hybrid and online teaching due to the pandemic was experienced by most faculty as a crisis moment. For many faculty ...

Creating and Supporting Systemic Change: Scaffolding Undergraduate Research as a Vehicle for Equitable Transformation
Jillian Kinzie, Indiana University-Bloomington; Elizabeth Ambos, Consultant; Mitchell Malachowski, University of San Diego; Jeffrey Osborn, The College of New Jersey; Lindsay Currie, Council on Undergraduate Research
The involvement of undergraduate students in research is a proven and powerful pedagogy due to the many benefits gained in their cognitive, intellectual, professional, and personal growth realms. Integrating ...

Organization-focused Networks as Levers for Change: A Research-Based Theoretical Framework to Conceptualize their Work
Ann Austin, Michigan State University; Susan Singer, Rollins College; Vicki Baker, Michigan State University; Adam Grimm, Michigan State University; Levi B Shanks, Michigan State University; Mathew Devereaux, Michigan State University
Networks are a powerful lever for advancing improvements in STEM education by leveraging sustained collaboration focused on a common goal. This proposed workshop will provide an opportunity for ASCN attendees to ...

Connecting Project Principles and a Theory of Change to Practice: Departmental Action Teams
Sarah Wise, University of Colorado at Boulder; Courtney Ngai, Colorado State University; Joel Corbo, University of Colorado at Boulder
Every change effort needs a solid foundation in order to achieve its desired impacts. We have found that project principles and a Theory of Change (TOC) provide such a foundation for the Departmental Action Team ...

Presentations: Session VII
Presentations: Session VII Thursday 12:40 pm â 1:05 pm PT / 1:40 pm â 2:05 pm MT / 2:40 pm â 3:05 pm CT / 3:40 pm â 4:05 pm ET Online Concurrent Session ...

Walking the walk of complex systems: Moving beyond "doing change" to build systemic capacity
John Morelock, University of Georgia
In their landmark publication ten years ago, Henderson, Beach, and Finkelstein (2011) advocated that STEM institutions must be viewed as complex systems for long-term change initiatives to be successful. That ...

Presentations: Session XI
Presentations: Session XI Friday 11:30 am â 11:55 am PT / 12:30 pm â 12:55 pm MT / 1:30 pm â 1:55 pm CT / 2:30 pm â 2:55 pm ET Online Concurrent Session Mobile ...

Transforming (Inter)Institutional STEM Infrastructures: Lessons from the SEISMIC Project on Designing for Equity and Inclusion at Scale
James Hammond, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Sara Brownell, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus; Carson Byrd, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Susan Cheng, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor; Nita Kedharnath, Henry Ford Community College; Timothy McKay, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Where equity and inclusion are concerned, STEM higher education remains in need of systemic reform and transformational change—within and across institutions. In this presentation, we discuss how promoting ...

Inclusive Excellence meets Evidence-Based Instructional Practice: The case of a three-pronged approach towards changing institutional practice
Martin Storksdieck, Oregon State University; Ann Sitomer, Oregon State University; Julie Risien, Oregon State University; Holly Cho, Oregon State University; Mary Beisiegel, Oregon State University; Lori Kayes, Oregon State University; Devon Quick, Oregon State University; Nana Osei-Kofi, Oregon State University
Our interactive presentation describes a project based on the premise that evidence-based instructional practices alone are not sufficient for addressing inequities that result in students succeeding in, or leaving ...

University systems in the time of punctuated equilibrium: Understanding adaptations to rapid and unpredictable change
Erika Offerdahl, Washington State University- Pullman; Mary Pilgrim, San Diego State University; Emily Walter, California State University-Fresno; Katherine Ryker, University of South Carolina-Columbia
The COVID-19 global pandemic presented unanticipated challenges for undergraduate education. Early in the pandemic, many institutions of higher education were left scrambling as they tried to maintain academic ...

STEM Education Center to STEM Equity Center: Meaningful Ways to Increase Inclusivity and Access
Tracie Salinas, Appalachian State University
Because of their unique role at the intersection of teacher education, engagement, and scholarship, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education centers are a vital part of institutional ...

Presentations: Session XII
Presentations: Session XII Friday 12:00 pm â 12:25 pm PT / 1:00 pm â 1:25 pm MT / 2:00 pm â 2:25 pm CT / 3:00 pm â 3:25 pm ET Online Concurrent Session How ...

Presentations: Session IX
Presentations: Session IX Friday 10:20 am â 10:45 am PT / 11:20 am â 11:45 am MT / 12:20 pm â 12:45 pm CT / 1:20 pm â 1:45 pm ET Online Concurrent Session ...

Translating Theory Into Practice for Widespread Change: The TRESTLE Initiative
Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, University of Kansas Main Campus; Caroline Bennett, University of Kansas Main Campus; Mark Mort, University of Kansas Main Campus; Stephanie Chasteen, University of Colorado at Boulder
The TRESTLE (Transforming Education, Stimulating Teaching & Learning Excellence) initiative was developed as a multi-institutional intervention across six universities to promote broad adoption of ...

It's a START: Supporting Intergenerational Department Change Teams to Build Anti-racist Courses and Curricula
Mary Wright, Brown University; Monica Linden, Brown University; Patricia Sobral, Brown University; James Valles, Brown University; Stacey Lawrence, Brown University; Eric Kaldor, Brown University
Like many institutions of higher education, Brown University has established an institutional imperative to address diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) on many levels, and like many centers for teaching and ...

Science Education as Civic Education: The Future of STEM Learning
Eliza Jane Reilly, National Center for Science and Civic Engagement; Davida Smyth, The New School; Eliza J. Reilly, National Center for Science and Civic Engagement
Spurred by twin crises of COVID-19 and climate change, and an uncertain employment horizon, the goals for STEM education have shifted from developing a STEM capable workforce to broader and more durable ...

Mobile Summer Institutes: An Institution-based Iteration of the Summer Institutes on Scientific Teaching that Targets Both Individual and Institutional Transformation.
Michelle Withers, Binghamton University; Marguerite Brickman, University of Georgia; Xinnian Chen, University of Connecticut; Robert Bills, Binghamton University; Mark Graham, Yale University; Joseph Ankrom, Binghamton University; Elias Miller, SUNY at Binghamton
While research has demonstrated the benefits of active learning on student success and reduction of performance gaps for historically excluded groups, the majority of post-secondary STEM educators still rely ...

Networking STEM Initiatives to Enhance (NSITE) Adoption of Evidence-based Practices
Michelle Withers, Binghamton University; Erin Baumgartner, Western Oregon University; Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Oregon State University; Xinnian Chen, University of Connecticut; Mark Graham, Yale University; Deb Pires, University of California-Los Angeles
Multiple initiatives have arisen to address the disconnect between theory and practice in post-secondary STEM education. While these initiatives share a common mission of making STEM education more effective and ...

Presentations: Session X
Presentations: Session X Friday 10:55 am â 11:20 am PT / 11:55 am â 12:20 pm MT / 12:55 pm â 1:20 pm CT / 1:55 pm â 2:20 pm ET Online Concurrent Session ...