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 ...

The Importance of Measuring Collaboration in Higher Education Reform Initiatives
Lucas Hill, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Judy Milton, University of Georgia; Timothy Immelman, University of Georgia
Increasingly, higher education STEM reform change initiatives seek to advance systems change, often through the proliferation of multi-institutional and multi-sector collaborative reform strategies. These ...

Presentations: Session VI
Skip to Main ContentSkip to Navigation Login Working together to promote sustainable change in higher education Presentations: Session VI Thursday 10:05 am â ...

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 ...

The Role of Course-Based Communities of Transformation in Moving Toward Active Learning: What We Learned about Supporting Change During the Pivot to Online Learning
Jill Nelson, George Mason University; Jessica Rosenberg, George Mason University; Robert Sachs, George Mason University
Student engagement in active learning has been shown to improve retention and understanding, but effecting sustained change in STEM instruction has proven challenging, particularly in large courses. In this ...