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Direct linkErica J. Zheng; Elizabeth Oakes; Julie Roden – Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, 2024
The number of undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds enrolled in science and technology-related courses has increased over the past 20 years, but these students' persistence in STEM majors until graduation still lags behind the overall college population. Interventions like exposure to independent research, instruction using…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Low Income Students, First Generation College Students, Minority Group Students
Capaldi, Mindy; Bugajski, Kristi; Goebbert, Bonnie Dahlke; Watters, Michael; Slattery, Michelle – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2022
Student retention is important to any university, especially keeping commuter students who are traditionally less anchored in campus life. Even more at risk, given the leaky STEM pipeline, are STEM commuter students. In 2016, Valparaiso University launched the Establishing Practices Integrating Commuter Students (EPIC) program, centered around…
Descriptors: College Students, STEM Education, Commuter Colleges, Undergraduate Students
Dorff, Michael; Weekes, Suzanne – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2019
The PIC Math program works with mathematical sciences faculty at US institutions to help them prepare students for careers in today's workforce. PIC Math faculty engage their students to solve data science and other research problems that come directly from industry. To accomplish the program's objectives, the authors conduct a three-day summer…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Science Instruction, Faculty Development, Student Research
