InSciTE
Wiline Pangle, Central Michigan University
Program Description
Our mission is to create an equitable student-driven environment for undergraduate students to develop skills on interdisciplinary communication, collaboration and real-world problem solving to become culturally competent and effective leaders.
Program Purpose
To equip undergraduate students with transferable skills so that they can land and keep their dream job; to address the lack of equity in STEM education.
Program Goals
1. Collaborate successfully: Students develop professional relationships and work together in diverse teams to achieve a common goal.
2. Communicate effectively: Students express ideas effectively to both technical and general audiences through oral, written and visual media, and students listen actively to provide and receive constructive criticism
3. Employ processes to achieve desired outcomes: Students decompose a problem to explore, design, and implement creative solutions, continuously evaluate progress, navigate uncertainty.
4. Develop scientific habits of the mind: Students apply scientific contents from diverse fields in order to appropriately design experiments, gather and manage data, analyze and draw conclusions.
5. Develop personal and professional identities: Students reflect upon their experiences to further their sense of self in order to become confident career-ready leaders.
Program Activities
- Obtained buy-in from administration (Dean) in the form of salary support for a faculty member
- Established an interdisciplinary, cross-department faculty and staff council
- Built program and curriculum with council, submitted curriculum for approval at Senate
- recruited students
- Implemented the program
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Notes and Tips
This should be a truly collaborative effort between administration and faculty.
Evidence of Success
See our website for evidence of success: www.se.cmich.edu/InSciTE
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