Linking Local and National Initiatives Workshop

September 25-26, 2014
Arlington, VA

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This meeting will focus on the eight universities supported by the AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative, but the strategies developed should be applicable to other institutionally-based undergraduate STEM education initiatives. The goal of the meeting is to develop strategies to link faculty who attend professional development institutes and/or workshops hosted by professional societies to university-based STEM initiatives.

Meeting Agenda »

We want to leave the meeting with plans to build:

• Linkages among fellow "alumni" of the faculty professional development workshops and institutes on the their campus (within and between departments)
  
• Linkages to institutional efforts to improve undergraduate STEM education
  
• Linkages to the leaders on their campus who are responsible for the campus's engagement in national multi-institutional projects aimed at improving STEM education.
  

Anticipated long-term impacts

• Enhanced persistence if faculty workshop/institute alumni in implementing interactive egagement pedagogies (IAPs)
  
• Stronger sustainability of institutionally-based undergraduate STEM initiatives
  
• Mechanisms for providing additional personpwer, feedback, evaluation, etc. for institutionally-based STEM initiatives.