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Integrating a DEI Focus in a CURE Development Model across STEM Departments
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Leann Norman; Laura Gough; Matthew Hemm; Jacqueline Doyle; Kelly Elkins; Brian Jara; Rommel Miranda – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2024
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Inclusive Excellence initiative funded 57 institutions to improve capacity to include all students in STEM education and research activities. At Towson University, a professional development (PD) program funded by this initiative helped STEM faculty design course-based undergraduate research experiences…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, College Faculty, Faculty Development
The BHEF National Higher Education and Workforce Initiative: A Model for Pathways to Baccalaureate Attainment and High-Skill Careers in Emerging Fields, Part 2. BHEF Case Study Series
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Fitzgerald, Brian K.; Barkanic, Steve; Cardenas-Navia, Isabel; Elzey, Karen; Hughes, Debbie; Troyan, Danielle – Industry and Higher Education, 2015
BHEF has achieved particular success in operationalizing its National Higher Education and Workforce Initiative (HEWI) in Maryland focusing on cybersecurity. Leveraging its membership of corporate CEOs, university presidents and government agency leaders, BHEF partnered with the University System of Maryland to build a system-wide response to the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Force Development, Internet, Computer Security
Women in the Academy: Female Leadership in STEM Education and the Evolution of a Mentoring Web
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Gorman, Susan T.; Durmowicz, Meredith C.; Roskes, Ellen M.; Slattery, Susan P. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2010
Women continue to be underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and in STEM leadership positions. According to the most recent data available from the National Science Foundation, in academia only 31% of full-time STEM faculty and 27% of STEM deans and department heads are women. By comparison at Stevenson…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Mentors, Females
Integrated Laboratories: Crossing Traditional Boundaries
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Dillner, Debra K.; Ferrante, Robert F.; Fitzgerald, Jeffrey P.; Heuer, William B.; Schroeder, Maria J. – Journal of Chemical Education, 2007
A new, integrated laboratory curriculum was recently developed at the U.S. Naval Academy in response to the 1999 ACS Committee on Professional Training guidelines that required inclusion of biochemistry and a stronger emphasis on student research. To meet these ACS requirements and to introduce more student choice in the major, we embarked on a…
Descriptors: Student Research, Advanced Courses, Chemistry, Laboratories
University Mathematics and Science Faculty Modeling Their Understanding of Reform Based Instruction in a Teacher Preparation Program: Voices of Faculty and Teacher Candidates
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McGinnis, J. Randy; Watanabe, Tad; McDuffie, Amy Roth – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2005
This study was conducted in a reform-based mathematics and science teacher education program in the USA, the Maryland Collaborative for Teacher Preparation (MCTP). The goal of the undergraduate program was to prepare upper elementary/middle level specialists in mathematics and science. One significant aspect of the MCTP was the expectation that…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Science Teachers, College Faculty