Keynote Speaker
(/details/images/266720.html) Dr. Nathan Grawe is a Professor of Economics at Carleton College where he has served on the faculty since 1999.Nathan earned his BA from St. Olaf College and his MA and ...

The Role of Community Colleges in Improving Bachelor's Degree Completion
Valerie Sundby, Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges; Travis Kibota, Clark College; Melissa Haswell, Delta College; Kevin Asman, Mott Community College
Community colleges are playing an increasing role in, and thus have a growing focus on, bachelor's degree attainment. Nationally, community colleges serve more than a third of all undergraduate students. ...

What did we START? Three Years Supporting Intergenerational Department Change Teams to Build Anti-racist Courses and Curricula
Monica Linden, Brown University; Stacey Lawrence, Brown University; James Valles, Brown University; Eric Kaldor, Brown University; Dana Hayward, Brown University; Mary Wright, Brown University
In the summer of 2020, three Brown University faculty (2 STEM, 1 humanities) and three staff from Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning began developing the Seminar on Transformation around Anti-Racist Teaching ...

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 ...

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 ...

Deep Teaching Residency: A faculty development community for inclusive practices
Tess Killpack, Salem State University; Carolyn Sandoval, University of California-San Diego; Bryan Dewsbury, Florida International University
With the support of an NSF-IUSE award, we designed the year-long faculty development Deep Teaching Residency (DTR) in order to substantially change faculty mindsets and inclusive pedagogy practices. 'Deep ...

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., ...

Course Based Undergraduate Research Demystifies and Democratizes inquiry-based research for undergraduate STEM students
Kristen Hoffbuhr, Skagit Valley College; Gabriel Mast, Skagit Valley College; Grant Blume, University of Washington-Seattle Campus; Brian Brady, Skagit Valley College; Cindy Elliser, Skagit Valley College; Cliff Palmer, Skagit Valley College
Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) have been shown to improve both persistence and graduation rates for women and students of color (Alquicira et al. 2022). Although these effects are observed broadly across ...

Advancing Excellence and Equity in Science: A curriculum to build community and belonging in STEM
Emily Borda, Western Washington University
The Advancing Equity and Excellence in Science (AEES) initiative at Western Washington University (WWU), funded through an HHMI Inclusive Excellence grant, works at multiple levels to make science majors more ...

Impact of the differences in variables in the US and Africa educational ecosystems on the applications of selected existing US guiding theories of change in the institutional transformation of Africa higher institutions
Godfrey Akpojotor, Delta State University, Abraka
There is growing accomplishment in developing guiding theories of change over the years. The successful application of connecting a change theory and practice, however, depends on the reliability of the variables ...