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The Broadening Access to the Sciences project website has not been significantly updated since 2012. We are preserving the webpages here because they still contain useful and ideas and content. But be aware that it may have out of date information.
If you're interested in these issues, you may want to explore the more recent Broaden Participation in STEM pages on the For Higher Ed website.

2010 AAC&U Meeting Workshop

Initial Publication Date: January 27, 2010

On Jan. 22, 2010, three faculty involved with this project did a workshop at the AAC&U Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. A number of documents used by the presenters and generated by workshop attendees are provided below for the community. Consider using or adapting the workshop pedagogy and/or the interactive case for purposes on your own campus.




The PowerPoint presentation given by Jim Swartz (Grinnell), Wendy Raymond (Williams) and Trish Ferrett (Carleton). Workshop on Broadening Access to STEM at 2010 AAC&U Meeting (PowerPoint 3MB Jan27 10)


The interactive case used in this session. AAC&U Interactive case (Acrobat (PDF) 79kB Feb2 10)
Entering the Case. Responses from individuals to this case and these initial questions: What information would you like to gather? What assumptions will you question? (doc coming soon)

Working with the Case. Responses from the tables to moving ahead with the case situation: What will be your proposed next steps and why? AAC&U: Next Step Responses (Acrobat (PDF) 78kB Feb13 10)

Campus Stories.
Handouts about how efforts to broadening access to STEM evolved at Williams College (Williams case study (Acrobat (PDF) 68kB Feb10 10)) and Grinnell College (coming soon).