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 ...

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 ...

Developing Change Leaders to Advance Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: A CIRTL Change Leadership Development Program
Rachel Kennison, University of California-Los Angeles; Kelly Clark, Johns Hopkins University; L.J. McElravy, University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Rachel Kennison, University of California-Los Angeles
Developing Change Leaders in Advanced Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: A Change Leadership Development Program is an exciting new initiative launched by the Center for the Integration of Research, ...

Leveraging a research network to empower institutional change in undergraduate STEM education
Dax Ovid, University of Georgia; Meredith Henry, Georgia State University; Sandhya Krishnan, University of Colorado at Boulder
This symposium shares the journey of an NSF-funded Research Coordination Network in uniting a group of instructors, education researchers, psychologists, and students to empower institutional change. FLAMEnet – ...

How a nationwide departmental change database could support equitable STEM education
Sam McKagan, American Association of Physics Teachers
We discuss a potential new tool that would bring together several existing projects to support physics departments in departmental change efforts and support departmental change researchers in identifying and ...

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. ...

The ProQual Approach: An innovative, accessible, and community-oriented approach to qualitative educational research training for STEM faculty
John Morelock, University of Georgia
This presentation presents the ProQual Approach to supporting STEM instructional and tenure-track faculty in conducting qualitative educational research. Historically, integrating these two groups into STEM ...

Project Voces: Establishing Student Voice to Drive STEM Education Transformation
Laird Kramer, Florida International University; Yesim Darici, Florida International University; Rocio Benabentos, Florida International University; Janki Bhimani, Florida International University; Monica Cardella, Florida International University; Adam Castillo, Florida International University; Jaroslava Miksovska, Florida International University; Stephen Secules, Florida International University; Leanne Wells, Florida International University
Florida International University's (FIU's) Project Voces aims to amplify student voice and agency as a key institutional change mechanism in our campus' ongoing STEM education transformation. Project ...

Session I
Session I Monday 9:30am - 10:30am Symposium Moving Beyond Silos to Support Student Success in Gateway Courses Tia Freelove, APLU Leslie Schiff, University of Minnesota-Morris ...

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 ...