The AAAS-IUSE blog seeks to support faculty, administrators, students, and the greater undergraduate STEM education community by using storytelling to disseminate the IUSE community’s research and best practices.
Blog Topics
Proposals should align with at least one of the following topics:
- Project Feature (~1,600 words): This longform post focuses on lessons learned and tells the story of how your project came to be successful, including an overview of the project, challenges faced, grant management tips, and outcomes.
- Engaged Student Learning (~1,000 words): Blog posts under this theme share success stories from their project aimed at interventions in the classroom. These posts focus on how you came to be successful in your project goals and the outcomes.
- Institutional and Community Transformation (~1,000 words): Blog posts under this theme share success stories from their project aimed at interventions at the institutional or community level. These posts focus on how you came to be successful in your project goals and the outcomes.
Authors should focus on the implications of their work and how readers in the academic community can benefit from and/or take meaningful action based on the content of your blog post.
Selected authors are encouraged to develop resources that further illustrate the information in their blog post such as graphs, charts, infographics, embedded videos, references, and links to additional resources for further reading and analysis.
Authors will be chosen based on the following criteria:
- Alignment with at least one of the blog themes.
- Relevancy to an audience of IUSE principal investigators, higher education stakeholders, and the larger undergraduate STEM education community.
- Compelling title, subtitle, and description of the subject you plan to cover.
- Content advances and pushes the field beyond the status quo, introduces compelling evidence, and clearly describes implications and practical steps readers can take.
Please be prepared to submit the following:
- Personal information such as name, affiliation, email address, and discipline.
- IUSE award recipient status, category of award, project role, and additional project personnel.
- Tentative blog post title and subtitle.
- A short description of your idea for a blog post (up to 300 words).
- Highlight the implications your blog post can have on the STEM education. community OR the outcomes that will be shared (up to 200 words).
- Optional: Links to your research, program, bio pages, or resources that are relevant to your topic.
Questions?
Please contact the AAAS-IUSE team at iuse@aaas.org.
