Transforming Institutions through the Evaluation of Teaching
Andrea Follmer Greenhoot, University of Kansas Main Campus; Ann Austin, Michigan State University; Doug Ward, University of Kansas Main Campus; Sarah Andrews, University of Colorado at Boulder; Noah Finkelstein, University of Colorado at Boulder
Universities and colleges across the country are recommitting to more inclusive, equitable, and effective learning experiences and cultures that more fully value teaching. Transforming teaching evaluation is a ...

A STEM Reform Solar System: Academic Departments and Institutional Elements
Emily Miller, Association of American Universities; Mary Sorcinelli, University of Massachusetts Amherst
This interactive session examines the complex institutional environment in which innovations to undergraduate STEM education take place. Our goals are to engage participants in identifying the key findings from the ...

Blueprint for Accelerating Change in Social Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in STEM Curricula
Patricia Marsteller, Emory University; Melissa Haswell, Delta College; Ruthmae Sears, University of South Florida
Our group is developing a book and eventually a grant to support and give examples of curricular ideas that use Social and Racial Justice issues for STEM curricula. The book will aim to provide change agents, ...

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 ...

Supporting Higher Education Leaders Advancing Systemic Change: Lessons from the Change Leadership Toolkit (CLT)
Elizabeth Holcombe, University of Southern California; Ángel Gonzalez, University of Southern California
While groups such as ASCN are increasingly working to draw attention to the need for systemic change in higher education, there are still surprisingly few practical resources to help leaders with executing such ...

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 ...

Exploring Implicit Leadership to Promote Change
L.J. McElravy, University of Nebraska at Lincoln; Rachel Kennison, University of California-Los Angeles; Kelly Clark, Johns Hopkins University
The purpose of this workshop is to explore how expectations about leadership influence how people work with one another to create change. Using a social-identity theoretical lens (Hogg & van Knippenberg, 2003), ...

You are a change leader - Let's learn from one another
Jonathan Cox, The University of Arizona; Madhura Kulkarni, Northern Kentucky University; Gita Bangera, Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU)
WG3 focuses on supporting change leaders. One big challenge is to help change leaders identify themselves as such. This session invites all types of higher education professionals (students, postdocs, faculty, ...

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 ...