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 ...

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 ...

Achieving sustained change through multi-institutional collaboration
Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, University of Kansas Main Campus; George Rehrey, Indiana University-Bloomington; Lorne Whitehead, University of British Columbia
ASCN is an established lever for engaging faculty, administrators, and policy makers in careful thinking about improvement in undergraduate teaching and learning, providing opportunities to explore and analyze ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How Department Context and Institutional Factors Shape Undergraduate STEM Education Reform
Emily Miller, Association of American Universities; Tara King, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Mary Sorcinelli, University of Massachusetts Amherst
In this presentation, we will report on emergent findings from Leveraging the AAU STEM Education Initiative, a study aimed at examining the institutional landscape in which innovations to undergraduate STEM ...

The (STEM)2 Network: A Multi-Institution, Multidisciplinary Approach to Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education
Jessica Santangelo, Hofstra University; Alison Hyslop, St. John's University-New York
Recognizing that the systemic transformation of STEM higher education is challenging, the (STEM)2 Network directly addresses those challenges by bridging disciplinary and institutional silos, and leveraging the ...

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 ...