The Disruptor

Promoting research on inclusive STEM ecosystems for faculty, students, and the greater undergraduate community. Below, you will find our latest blog entry and a complete archive of our posts. Enjoy!

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  • Advancing Physics Education Where Diversity Resides: The Organization for Physics at Two-Year Colleges (OPTYCs)

    Caption: Cohort 1 of the Creating Environments that Reach Every Student Program. Participants sort ideas during a brainstorming session. St. Louis, Jan. 2025.O…

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  • Advancing Physics Education Where Diversity Resides: The Organization for Physics at Two-Year Colleges (OPTYCs)

    Caption: Cohort 1 of the Creating Environments that Reach Every Student Program. Participants sort ideas during a brainstorming session. St. Louis, Jan. 2025.O…

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  • How to Use Virtual Platforms to Design Accessible Inquiry Projects for High-Enrollment Undergraduate Courses

    There is no time like the present to develop alternative, yet meaningful experiences that expose undergraduates to research. Mentored research is associated wi…

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  • Problems Associated with Interpreters Not Being Able to Fluently and Accurately Interpret STEM Content

    Additional Authors: Cristophorus Budidharma, Graduate Student, Lamar University; Ashley Greene, Assistant Professor, Gallaudet University; Sean Hauschildt, Ass…

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  • Culturally and Linguistically Sustaining STEM Pedagogies

    Additional Authors: John L. Pecore, Ph.D. (Professor, University of West Florida); Melissa K. Demetrikopoulos, Ph.D. (Director, Institute for Biomedical Philos…

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  • Making Systemic Changes: Questioning Meritocracy at the Faculty Level

    (Image Caption: When thinking about a healthy ecosystem, the research team created this tree for inspiration. The roots show practices we hoped became norms an…

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  • How Do We Mitigate the Impact of Systemic Bias on Faculty from Underrepresented Groups?

    Last year, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that as of Fall 2019, only 2.1 percent of tenured professors at non-profit four-year colleges in the U.S.…

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  • Why Won’t STEM Faculty Just Adopt Evidence-Based Teaching Practices Already?: Exploring a Weaver’s Approach to Graduate Teacher Training

    Learn how to support future faculty in their knowledge of evidence-based teaching practices and provide them ongoing and multifaceted opportunities to explore …

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  • Creating and Maintaining Communities to Support Faculty Implementing Effective Evidence-Based Strategies

    We need to support faculty so that they persist with research-based instructional strategies, learn new techniques, and engage in reflective practice.

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  • Handing Rose-Colored Glasses to STEM Faculty: Institutional Priorities in Disciplinary Identity Development

    As educators, we are setting the rules. As scientists, we can draw on our skills and training to find and use tools that both broaden participation in the scie…

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  • Racial Equity in the STEM Math Pathway: Designing for Disproportionate Benefit

    We all need to redouble efforts to advance racial equity in the STEM math pathway on our campuses by intentionally designing for positive benefit.

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    The Disruptor LIVE: Reflections on One Year of Evidence-Based Strategies that Advance Equity

    How can we empower evidence-based systemic change that advances equity?

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  • Dear STEM, It’s Time for Some Identity Work

    What identities are being built? What identities are (and/or ought) to be dismantled? What structures, traditions, philosophies, and/or practices necessitate d…

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  • Filling the Sieve and Wondering Why We’re Still Thirsty: A Call to Humanize the STEM Workplace for Educators and Students

    Many consider the landscape of undergraduate STEM to be characterized by high rates of work stress and inequity across identities of race, ethnicity, . . .

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  • How Disruption Allows Us to Reimagine Convergent STEM Ecosystems

    Learn how placing experiences and growth, rather than content delivery, at the center of activity can help you create an educational ecosystem that supports di…

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  • How Kindness is Part of an Excellent STEM Education

    In 2017 I set my fingers to the keyboard and, in collaboration with my colleagues, wrote a review article titled “The Influence of Affirming Kindness and Commu…

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