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 ...

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 ...

Improving the Center's Lever: Strategic Addition of a Co-curricular Activity to Improve STEM Faculty and Student Success
Ken Griffith, Texas Tech University; Alyssa Kramer, Texas Tech University; Abby Miller, Texas Tech University; Torrey Stubblefield, Texas Tech University; Mckenna Mckay, Texas Tech University
After the 2015 annual meeting of the POD Network in Higher Education, leaders from POD and the Network of STEM Education Centers (NSEC) came together to host a workshop called "Collaborating at the ...

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 ...

Assessing Quantitative Reasoning Across Ohio
Gregory Foley, Ohio University-Main Campus; Deependra Budhathoki, Defiance College
Quantitative Reasoning (QR) is gaining in popularity across the United States as a gateway postsecondary mathematics course. In particular, enrollment in QR at public institutions of higher (IHEs) in Ohio increased ...

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, & ...

Changing Instruction through Alternative Grading and Course Innovations
Jenna Van Sickle, Valparaiso University; Zsuzsanna Szaniszlo, Valparaiso University
This presentation will explain an innovative Calculus course that has integrated algebra and precalculus for underprepared students, and it has used standards-based grading to change the way mathematics instruction ...

Leveraging Data to Guide Change Efforts in Inclusive and Equitable Teaching: A Pilot Assessment in Academic Departments
Ruthann Thomas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Amanda Baker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Inclusive and Equitable Teaching (IE-Teaching) Assessment is an initiative designed to promote more inclusive and equitable teaching practices by using data to motivate, inform, and tailor change efforts to the ...

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 ...

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 ...