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Sandra Laursen, PhD
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Sandra Laursen, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder Sandra is senior research associate and co-director of Ethnography & Evaluation Research (E&ER), where she leads research and evaluation studies focusing on education and career paths in science and mathematics. Her studies of organizational change in higher education have addressed STEM faculty use of active learning practices and gender equity on STEM faculties. Laursen has published widely on inquiry- and research-based learning in math and science, professional development of STEM instructors, graduate education, career development, and science outreach. She studied chemistry and French at Grinnell College and the University of California Berkeley. She is a singer, a birder, and a keen traveler.
Kris De Welde, PhD
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Kristine De Welde, PhD College of Charleston Kris is Director and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Professor of Sociology at the College of Charleston in SC. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She specializes in the study of intersectional inequalities in higher education and organizational change for academic justice as well as liberation-focused pedagogies. Her co-edited/co-authored book (with Andi Stepnick of Belmont University) titled Disrupting the Culture of Silence: Confronting Gender Inequality and Making Change in Higher Education, received a 2015 Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title. De Welde has been invited to deliver numerous conference keynote addresses, interactive workshops and formal lectures at campuses across the country on concerns about equity and inclusion, social justice leadership, and gender. She was awarded the 2016-2017 Sociologists for Women in Society Feminist Activism Award for her sustained commitments to social justice within and beyond the academy.
Ann Austin, PhD
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Ann E. Austin, PhD, Michigan StateAnn is University Distinguished Professor and interim dean of the Michigan State University College of Education. Austin's research concerns faculty careers and professional development, organizational change in higher education, teaching and learning in higher education, doctoral education, reform in STEM education, the academic workplace, equity and inclusion in academe and higher education in the international context. She currently co-chairs the National Academies' of Sciences' Roundtable on Systemic Reform in Undergraduate STEM Education. She was a founding co-PI/Leader of the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), funded by the National Science Foundation, and was the principal investigator (with Sandra Laursen) of an NSF-funded ADVANCE PAID grant to study organizational change strategies that support the success of women scholars in STEM fields. One of her current grants, funded by NSF, focuses on how networks of organizations are contributing to reform in STEM education, and another concerns improvements in teaching evaluation in higher education.
Advisory Board
Kimberly Griffin, University of Maryland - External Evaluator
Kimberly A. Griffin is Dean of the College of Education and Professor in Higher Education, Student Affairs, and International Education Policy at the University of Maryland, College Park. She also serves as the editor of the
Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.Her research interests lie in three areas: diversity and equity in graduate education and the professoriate; diversity within the Black higher education community; and mentoring and career development. Pursuing these interests, she has conducted work on a variety of topics, including career development of Ph.D. completers in science, Black professors and their engagement in student interaction, the experiences of Black immigrant college students, diversity recruitment in graduate education, and campus racial climate. Dr. Griffin is an active scholar and researcher, engaged widely in efforts to promote diversity and equity in higher education through her published work and in national conversations about equity and inclusion. She has consulted with the NIH, NSF, National Academies, American Council on Education, and the Council of Graduate Schools. She has a Ph.D. from UCLA in Higher Education and Organizational Change.
Ellen Iverson, SERC, Carleton College
Ellen Iverson is Director of the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College (MN). She joined SERC in 2003 to lead evaluation and educational research efforts that ground SERC projects in the reality of educator practice. Her research interests focus on the role of communities of practice and networks in co-production of curriculum, policy, and programs, particularly those aimed at broadening access in STEM. She has evaluated more than 40 science education projects and co-led the national assessment efforts for the NSF InTeGrate STEP Center, aimed at improving Earth literacy and building a workforce prepared to tackle urgent environmental and resource issues facing humanity. Since 2021, she has led SERC's work to improve education, guiding projects to completion, developing new directions, raising funds and managing the staff. She has a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership and Policy (Evaluation Studies) from the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis.
Lance Pérez, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lance C. Pérez is Dean of the College of Engineering and Omar H. Heins Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. An experienced academic and campus leader, Pérez previously was associate vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of graduate studies at the university. In these roles, Pérez was responsible for faculty and leadership development, promotion and tenure, instruction technology and classroom facilities' improvements, and graduate education; he also worked with UNL's ADVANCE program.. He led the implementation of $30 million in improvements to the academic facilities and played a pivotal role in the university's entrance into the Big Ten Committee on Institutional Cooperation. He has won numerous teaching awards and has been PI or coPI on more than $15 million in federally funded research. His research interests include signal and information processing, engineering education, and faculty leadership development. From 2008-10, Pérez was a program director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation. He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame.
Jim Swartz, Grinnell College
James E. Swartz is Dack Professor of Chemistry and director of the Center for Science in the Liberal Arts at Grinnell College (IA), where he was dean of the College 1998-2008. As science division chair, he led efforts to reform teaching in introductory science courses, expand undergraduate research and improve science facilities. He was a leader in the Grinnell Science Project, a major effort to improve the success of members of groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM, awarded a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring in 2011. While dean, he helped to expand programs for student-faculty research, scholarly leaves, faculty diversity, and creation of an interdisciplinary teaching focus. He served as program director of the Pew Midstates Science and Math Consortium and for the Coalition for Faculty Diversity, each for six years, and has led faculty development on pedagogies of engagement for Project Kaleidoscope and for the Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska NSF-LSAMP project. He is a member of the NASEM Roundtable on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education. He has a Ph.D. in chemistry from UC Santa Cruz and did postdoctoral work at Caltech.
Mary Armstrong, Lafayette College
Mary A. Armstrong is Charles A. Dana Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and English at Lafayette College (PA), where she also serves as program chair for WGSS. She teaches introductory and advanced courses including gender and STEM, feminist theory, and queer theory. Her research interests include feminist and queer theory, LGBTQ+ studies, inclusion in STEM, and Victorian literature and culture. In collaboration with Lafayette librarians, faculty and students, she directs Lafayette's Queer Archives project, an oral history and digital humanities project. With Jasna Jovanovic, she had NSF funding to study intersectionality in ADVANCE Institutional Transformation projects, examining how these projects provided institutional support to STEM faculty women of color. Her forthcoming book challenges common narratives that STEM benefits all, using intersectionally disaggregated economic data to examine whether women in STEM professions really do better. Despite such work, she describes herself as a "theorist, unrestricted by reality." She has a Ph.D. in English and a graduate certificate in women's studies from Duke University.
Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux, Caltech
Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux is Chief Diversity Officer and Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Assessment at Caltech. In this role she leverage her professional expertise about equity and diversity in STEM fields to enhance, expand, and coordinate Caltech's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in a strategic and research-based manner. Malcom-Piqueux is a respected scholar and nationally recognized expert who has advised the National Science Foundation, NASA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics, and many other science and higher ed organizations. She is a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) study committee on
Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in the Leadership of Competed Space Missions and wrote a
commissioned paper on the implications of transformations in STEM higher education on racial equity by the NASEM Board on Science Education. With Tia Brown McNair and Estela Bensimon, she is a coauthor of
From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education (2020). She has degrees in planetary science from MIT and Caltech, and a Ph.D. in urban education from USC.
Sue Rosser, San Francisco State
Sue V. Rosser is Provost Emerita and Professor Emerita at San Francisco State University, and has served as the Special Advisor on Research Development and External Partnerships for the California State University System Office of the Chancellor. Before coming to San Francisco State, she was Dean of Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at Georgia Institute of Technology, where she held the Ivan Allen Dean's Chair of Liberal Arts and Technology. She has authored and edited 14 books and written over 140 journal articles on the theoretical and applied problems of women and science and women's health. Her most recent books are Academic Women in STEM Faculty: Views Beyond a Decade After POWRE (2017) and Breaking into the Lab: Engineering Progress for Women in Science (2012). She has held several grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), including leading ADVANCE projects at Georgia Tech and SFSU, and advising many other ADVANCE projects. During 2022-23 is a Visiting Virtual Scholar for the ARC Network's STEM Equity Brain Trust. She received her Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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