Poster Presentations
Monday | 5:00pm - 6:30pm | Scandinavian 3/4
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The Benefits of a Cross-functional Team Model to Identify and Address Institutional Barriers and help Underrepresented, Low-income, Academically Talented STEM Community College Students Overcome Roadblocks to Persistence
Michelle Naffziger-Hirsch, Oakton Community College; Mario Borha, Oakton Community College
Community colleges are ideally positioned to identify potential STEM students because they serve a large proportion of underrepresented minority, first-generation and low-income students (Ma & Baum, 2016). Yet, ...
PULSE: Helping Departments to Transform Undergraduate Education
Judy Awong-Taylor, Georgia Gwinnett College; Monica Linden, Brown University; Alix Fink, Longwood University; Gary Reiness, Lewis & Clark College
Interested in improving "student success"? ... providing environments in which students learn skills for career success? ... deepening DEI efforts? ... working towards this vision and assessing progress? ...
Faculty Mentoring Networks: A flexible and effective model for professional learning
Sam Donovan, BioQUEST; Deborah Rook, BioQUEST; Sarah Prescott, BioQUEST; Drew LaMar, BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium
Faculty Mentoring Networks (FMNs) provide opportunities for teachers to engage in professional learning that involves working with innovative curricula, customizing them for use with particular student audiences ...
Organization-focused Change Networks as Levers for Systemic Change: Highlights of Research on their Nature, Functioning, and Lifecycles
Ann Austin, Michigan State University; Susan R. Singer, Rollins College; Adam Grimm, Michigan State University
Transforming higher education institutions to fulfill more effectively their missions to learners and the broader society involves fostering change in several complex and interrelated issues. These areas for change ...
The RIOS Institute: A community supporting racially-just, inclusive, open STEM education
Sam Donovan, BioQUEST; Kaitlin Bonner, Saint John Fisher College; Karen Cangialosi, OE Global; Carrie Diaz Eaton, Bates College
The Institute for a Racially Just, Inclusive, and Open STEM Education (RIOS Institute) is a virtual synthesis center led by a diverse set of individuals at the interface of open education, STEM postsecondary ...
Poster Presentations
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The STEM RISE Program at teach HOUSTON: Connecting Inquiry-Based Teaching and Mentoring Through STEM and Medicine
Michelle Carroll Turpin, University of Houston-University Park
The STEM Research Inquiry Summer Experience program is a collaboration between the University of Houston's (UH) College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics teachHOUSTON program, the new College of Medicine at ...
Creating Promotable Teaching Ranks at a Research-Intensive Institution: Key Findings and Challenges for Institutional Change
Caroline Quenemoen, Rice University; Margaret Beier, Rice University; Matthew Taylor, Rice University; Megan R. McSpedon, Rice University
While there has been much work on teaching faculty labor conditions, this issue has been less studied in R1 institutions, where increasing tensions and contradictions between the research and teaching missions of ...
A framework for equitable, student-centered instruction in undergraduate STEM
Dan Hanley, Western Washington University; Saraswathy Nair, University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley; Timothy Huber, University of Texas- Rio Grande Valley
While minoritized, low-income, and first-generation students in undergraduate STEM programs benefit the most from research-based instructional strategies (RBIS), such as active learning strategies, they are least ...
Enhancing Data Literacy Learning Experience for Nontraditional Higher Education Community: A Constructive Work in Progress
Parisa Meisami, Universities at Shady Grove
This poster presentation outlines an ongoing initiative aimed at improving data literacy learning experiences for the nontraditional higher education community at the Universities at Shady Grove (USG). In the era ...