Creating a Culture of Inclusive Excellence: A Multi-Year Initiative at SIUE
Brittany Peterson, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Maurina Aranda, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville; Sharon Locke, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Over the past three academic years, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) has made significant, sustained efforts to promote inclusive and accessible teaching practices across disciplines. Through a ...

Behind the Research: A Team Building and Productivity Case Study
Aspen Malone, Middle Tennessee State University; Sarah Bleiler-Baxter, Middle Tennessee State University; Alyssa Freeman, Middle Tennessee State University; Grant Gardner, Middle Tennessee State University; Cassandra Mohr, Middle Tennessee State University; Abigail Nkuah, Middle Tennessee State University; Andrew Puente, Middle Tennessee State University; Greg Rushton, Middle Tennessee State University; Cory Wang, Middle Tennessee State University
Fostering productivity and strengthening team dynamics are critical for success. This can be seen in university, research, teaching, administrative, and even policy making settings. This poster, "Behind the ...

The BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium: A Community of Educators Supporting Evolution and Revolution in STEM Education
Melissa Haswell, Delta College; Sarah Prescott, BioQUEST; Deborah Rook, BioQUEST; Michael LaMar, College of William and Mary; Sam Donovan, BioQUEST
BioQUEST is a long-standing (35+ years) 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that acts as a support community for STEM educators who are interested in reforming their teaching and learning practices. BioQUEST's ...

Initiating an ecosystem approach to student success
Jennifer Smith, Washington University in St. Louis; Alessandra York, Washington University in St. Louis; Michael Cahill, Washington University in St. Louis; Heidi Kolk, Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University's approach to undergraduate academic success has been and remains grounded in high touch advising and strong personal investment from instructors. As the student body grew and student ...

Assessing the Success of a 14-Institution Collaborative Undergraduate STEM Education Inclusivity Initiative
Madison Fitzgerald-Russell, University of Iowa; Renee Cole, University of Iowa; Erin Shortlidge, Portland State University; Christy Wentz, Hamilton College
The SCIENCE (Student-Centered Institutional Enhancement and Co-Learning Exchange) Collaborative, a 14-institution network focused on inclusive excellence in STEM education, seeks to improve student belonging for ...

ORIC: a multi-institutional approach to Enhance Organizational Research Impact Capacity
Susan Renoe, University of Missouri-Columbia; Sara Vassmer, University of Missouri-Columbia
Since 2014, the National Alliance for Broader Impacts, and most recently, the Center for Advancing Research Impact in Society (ARIS) has provided professional development for researchers and impact professionals to ...

Finding Our North Star: An Archival Exploration of the University of Minnesota's Land-Grant Mission Over Time
Sammi Dittloff, University of Minnesota-Duluth
As a land-grant institution, the University of Minnesota has long understood its tie to public service, community outreach, and publishing accessible research findings (About Us, n.d.; Board of Regents Policy: ...

Characterizing the Emerging Field of Departmental Change
Joel Corbo, University of Colorado at Boulder; Courtney Ngai, Colorado State University; Sarah Wise, University of Colorado at Boulder; Jaclyn Rivard, University of Southern Mississippi
Innovations and improvements in STEM undergraduate education have historically been focused on the individual classroom level, but such efforts are largely ineffective in accomplishing systemic, sustained change. ...

Designing Effective Structures to Foster Distributed Leadership in a Large, Multi-institutional Change Network
W. Gary Martin, Auburn University Main Campus; Marilyn E. Strutchens, Auburn University Main Campus
A major challenge faced by a multi-institutional change network is effectively engaging its membership in the work while maintaining coherence. In this session, we share the experiences of the Mathematics Teacher ...

Positioning Faculty Experts as Change Agents
Kris Wobbe, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Kimberly LeChasseur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Centers for teaching and learning and similar units within universities can serve critical change leadership roles. This poster uses the case of one center to highlight the rationale, strategies, and benefits of ...