Ready or not? Convening department heads to reform teaching evaluation
Paula Lemons, University of Georgia; Hannah Ericson, University of Georgia; Tessa Andrews, University of Georgia
Most STEM departments have inadequate teaching evaluation practices. As a result, they are largely unable to recognize and reward evidence-based teaching. Yet widespread adoption of evidence-based teaching likely ...

Higher Education Instructional-Workforce Framework
Mark Lee, Spelman College; Emily Miller, Association of American Universities
In this symposium, we will introduce a Higher Education Instructional-Workforce Framework, authored by members of the National Academies Roundtable on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education. With ...

Initiating and Scaling Institutional Change: The Transformational Change Initiative
Erika Offerdahl, Washington State University- Pullman; Laura Hill, Washington State University- Pullman; Samantha Swindell, Washington State University- Pullman; Bill Davis, Washington State University- Pullman
The Transformational Change Initiative (TCI) was initiated in 2016 as a five-year project funded through an internal strategic reallocation of university resources to promote student connectedness and stimulate ...

Sustained department-wide changes achieved by Departmental Action Teams
Joel Corbo, University of Colorado at Boulder; Sarah Wise, University of Colorado at Boulder; Courtney Ngai, Colorado State University
The Departmental Action Team (DATs) project developed a new model supporting departmental change and ran seventeen DATs across the time period of 2014-2021. DATs were based in a wide variety of academic ...

Leading Complex Change through Shared Equity Leadership
Laura Frost, Florida Gulf Coast University; Felecia Caton-Garcia, Central New Mexico Community College; Floyd Cheung, Smith College; Rashna Richards, Rhodes College; Becky Sartini, University of Rhode Island; Susan Shadle, Boise State University; Sean Walker, California State University-Fullerton
Leading change can be complex and complicated and often requires more than just excellent problem solving, attention to process, and paying attention to the data, skills that are second nature to leaders with STEM ...

Presentations: Session C
Presentations: Session C Monday 1:15pm - 2:15pm Norway 1 Presentation Sustained Department-wide Changes Achieved by Departmental Action Teams Joel Corbo, University of Colorado ...

Opportunities and challenges of change efforts involving faculty-student instructional teams
Alice Olmstead, Texas State University-San Marcos; Alicia Montecinos, Texas State University-San Marcos; Charles Ramey II, Texas State University-San Marcos; Hannah Castro, Texas State University-San Marcos; Lexie Kerr, Texas State University-San Marcos; Madison Fitzgerald-Russell, Texas State University-San Marcos
We have been implementing a 5-year initiative called the "STEM Communities Project" (NSF #1928696) at Texas State University, a large, diverse Hispanic-Serving Institution in central Texas. Through this ...

Improving Institutional Quality, Equitable Access, and Affordability; Essential for STEM Transformation
Stephen C. Ehrmann, NA
Champions of STEM reform need to take more responsibility for institutional-scale quality of learning, equitable access, and stakeholder affordability. Let's nickname this "the pursuit of 3fold ...

Presentations: Session A
Presentations: Session A Monday 1:15pm - 2:15pm Scandinavian 2 Presentation Factors Associated with STEM Students' Sense of Belonging Gili Marbach-Ad, University of ...

Equity Audits as a Change Management Tool
Kimberly LeChasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kris Wobbe, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Diversity trainings have been critiqued as inadequate for shifting educational practice, despite their ubiquitous presence (Bezrukova, Spell, Perry, & Jehn, 2016). Equity audits can be a powerful alternative. ...