Factors Associated with STEM Students' Sense of Belonging
Gili Marbach-Ad, University of Maryland-College Park; Sara Gliese, University of Maryland-College Park; Kaci Thompson, University of Maryland-College Park
Students who feel a greater belonging to their university and department are significantly more likely to complete a degree. As such, it is important to examine what factors may contribute to sense of belonging in ...

Cross-Pollination Between Independent Projects to Broaden Culture Change and Sustain Curricular Reform
Catherine Ishikawa, California State University-Sacramento; Kelly McDonald, California State University-Sacramento; JoAna Brooks, California State University-Chico; Milica Markowic, California State University-Sacramento; David Alexander, California State University-Chico; Praveen Meduri, California State University-Sacramento; Mohammed Eltayeb, California State University-Sacramento; Michele Mittman, California State University-Chico
Engaging students in authentic work, like novel research and design, is a high-impact classroom practice that has been gaining popularity. While early projects sought to show that CUREs (Course-based Undergraduate ...

Bridging research and practice: How the EP3 Initiative supports faculty uptake of departmental change strategies
Robert Dalka, University of Maryland-College Park; Joel Corbo, University of Colorado at Boulder; Chandra Turpen, University of Maryland-College Park; David Craig, Oregon State University; Kathryn Svinarich, Kettering University
There is abundant evidence of practices that support strong undergraduate programs, such as shared leadership and using data to guide programmatic changes. Yet in many physics and other STEM departments, motivating ...

Keynote Speaker
Skip to Main ContentSkip to Navigation Login Working together to promote sustainable change in higher education Keynote Speaker Tuesday 10:15am - 12:00pm Scandinavian ...

Moving Beyond Silos to Support Student Success in Gateway Courses
Kathrine Russell, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; Tia Freelove Kirk, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU); Leslie Schiff, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities; LeeAnn Melin, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
This session will engage participants around the ongoing efforts of 8 campuses working collaboratively to improve persistence and address disparities for students who are low-income, first-generation, or ...

Presentations: Session A
Skip to Main ContentSkip to Navigation Login Working together to promote sustainable change in higher education Presentations: Session A Monday 1:15pm - 2:15pm ...

Student and Teacher Interaction in Traditional and Remote, Asynchronous Undergraduate Physics Laboratories
Angela M Kelly, SUNY at Stony Brook; Keith Sheppard, SUNY at Stony Brook; Drew Rosen, University of Maine
This research examines how undergraduate faculty and graduate teaching assistants implemented traditional and remote, asynchronous pedagogical practices in the physics laboratory, as well as potential influences on ...

Making Change Theory Work for You
Tessa Andrews, University of Georgia; Daniel Reinholz, San Diego State University
This workshop will provide an opportunity to learn about the use of change theory in STEM higher educational change. This workshop will be relevant to participants who are new to change theory and those who have ...

Exploring Implicit Leadership to Promote Change
L.J. McElravy, University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Rachel Kennison, University of California-Los Angeles; Kelly Clark, Johns Hopkins University
The purpose of this workshop is to explore how expectations about leadership influence how people work with one another to create change. Using a social-identity theoretical lens (Hogg & van Knippenberg, 2003), ...

A Survey Tool to Assess Team Collaboration Around Instructional Change
Madison Fitzgerald-Russell, Texas State University-San Marcos; Alice Olmstead, Texas State University-San Marcos; Andrea Beach, Western Michigan University; Charles Henderson, Western Michigan University; Diana Sachmpazidi, University of Maryland-College Park; Cynthia Luxford, Texas State University-San Marcos
Instructional change teams are increasingly common in efforts to improve undergraduate STEM instruction. Such teams include three or more members who may have different perspectives and backgrounds. When they are ...