UCLA SEA Change Initiative: A collaborative approach using data for institutional change
Rachel Kennison, University of California-Los Angeles
The AAAS's Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Medicine (STEMM) Equity Achievement (SEA) Change initiative uses research-informed strategies including a self-assessment process to build capacity ...

Building a Collaborative Culture of Teaching and Learning: Creating centralized educator support within a decentralized institution
Makena Neal, Michigan State University; Eleanor Louson, Michigan State University
When a large, decentralized university with no history of a dedicated service unit to support teaching and learning professional development declares such a unit will now exist, there is specific and critical work ...

A Case Study of How STEM Education Practitioners Think about Change Theory, Change Strategies, and Making Relevant Project Choices
Laura Muller, The Jackson Laboratory; Melissa Eblen-Zayas, Carleton College
Practitioners can be challenged in understanding the language around change strategies and change theories in developing projects to bring about institutional change because of a lack of insider knowledge about how ...

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 ...

Promoting adoption of research-based strategies: Understanding the impact of malleable factors on instructional practices in undergraduate STEM courses
Brandon J. Yik, University of Virginia; Jeffrey Raker, University of South Florida; Marilyne Stains, University of Virginia; Naneh Apkarian, Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus; Charles Henderson, Western Michigan University; Melissa H. Dancy, Western Michigan University; Estrella Johnson, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ
The inclusion of active learning pedagogies repeatedly demonstrates favorable and enhanced student outcomes in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses. Despite calls for the adoption of ...

Transforming undergraduate education by building racial equity-centered STEM courses
Veronica McGowan, University of Washington-Bothell Campus; Rachel E Scherr, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus; Carrie Tzou, University of Washington-Tacoma Campus
Increasingly, the natural sciences are recognizing the need to address social theories in the study of natural systems. However, postsecondary science education has been shaped by Eurocentric ideologies that depict ...

Creating a Spacious Capacity to Support Institutional Change
Kris Wobbe, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kimberly LeChasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Capacity within higher education institutions is held in its people. Institutional change is a complex and messy business that cannot happen unless people change attitudes and behaviors (Armenakis, Harris, & ...

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 ...

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 ...

Driving Pedagogical Innovation from the Ground Up through Strategic On-Campus Partnerships
Jeffrey Olimpo, University of Texas at El Paso; Elena C. Bitner, University of Texas at El Paso; Jessica Duran, University of Texas at El Paso; Janet Hill, University of Texas at El Paso; Adrian Meza, University of Texas at El Paso; Alejandro Miramontes, University of Texas at El Paso; Mitsumasa Overstreet, University of Texas at El Paso
Empirical studies of instructional innovations at the undergraduate level have repeatedly emphasized the strong connection existent between faculty success and student engagement, learning, and achievement (e.g., ...