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 ...

Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Holistic STEM Support Program: A Quantitative Approach
Sarah Hoiland, CUNY Hostos Community College; Norberto Michel Hernandez Valdes-Portela, CUNY Hostos Community College
The Holistic Oasis for Parents' Education (HOPE) Program utilizes a two-generation approach (student parents and their children), to increase access to STEM education among underrepresented groups. This ...

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 ...

Initiating and Scaling Institutional Change: The Transformational Change Initiative
Erika Offerdahl, Washington State University- Pullman; Laura Hill, Washington State University- Pullman; Samantha Swindell, Washington State University- Pullman; Bill Davis, Washington State University- Pullman
The Transformational Change Initiative (TCI) was initiated in 2016 as a five-year project funded through an internal strategic reallocation of university resources to promote student connectedness and stimulate ...

A New Model for Transdisciplinary Curriculum Development in Higher Education Using the Wicked Problems of Sustainability
David Szymanski, Bentley University; Ellen Iverson, Carleton College; Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Oregon State University; Laura Jackson Young, Bentley University; Melissa Lenczewski, Northern Illinois University; Christine Mooney, Northern Illinois University; Rick Oches, Bentley University; John Ritter, Wittenberg University; Rachel Wilson, Wittenberg University
A scientifically literate citizenry is essential to meet the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals and ensure that the U.S. remains economically competitive in an increasingly resource-constrained society. Yet neither ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...