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  • Student-Faculty-Staff Teams for Institutional Change: Strategies for Authentically Including Student Voices

    Students are at the center of education. Yet, education improvement projects are often limited in how they incorporate student…

  • 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.…

  • How a Professional Learning Program Turned Best Practices into Better Outcomes

    Improving learning in undergraduate STEM courses is a critical need to reduce high failure rates and broaden access to…

  • 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…

  • An Invitation to Explore Alternative Design Features in Undergraduate Research Experiences

    Undergraduate research has long been a springboard for future scientists, but not all students can access these transformative opportunities.…

  • 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…

  • Training Teaching Assistants to Create a Positive Motivational Climate

    ProblemStudent recruitment and retention in Computer Science (CS) is a well-known challenge, and there are national efforts to increase…

  • Tackling Real-World Problems: Impacts, Observations, and Challenges after Seven Years of the Environment Corps

    Caption: Stormwater Corps students learn to read development site plans with Instructors Bruce Hyde and Mike Dietz.In the spring…

  • Course Withdrawal Dates at Community Colleges

    Caption: Students in a Geology course work collaboratively on lab exercises. Students benefit from policies that give them every…