Resources

This initiative compiles materials that help STEM education leaders create improvements in their classrooms, transform institutions, and advance research.
Review our staff picks for timely resources related to pressing issues or use the search and categorization features to browse research, reports, and other materials.

Staff Picks

  • Characterizing Student Perspectives on Departmental Culture: The Student DELTA Survey

    Traditional Student Experience MetricsNational reports have revealed that although undergraduate education has undergone significant reform, students are not g…

  • The Value of Community Colleges: Bridging Gaps and Building Pathways to Increase Student Success

    (Video credit: CCC Marcom)Innovative Evidence-based Strategies to Disrupt the Current Community College NarrativeI was honored to be invited to talk at a confe…

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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…

  • 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 opportunity to be successful i…

  • A Place Where I Can Belong: Investment in a Learning Community for Community College Transfer Students in the Marine Geosciences

    Community college students are untapped human and research capital.

  • Turning Introduction to Statistics into an On-ramp to STEM

    STEM classes, particularly calculus and introductory computer science classes, traditionally have few women and underrepresented minorities enrolled. Skyline C…

  • Ocean Science Research Opportunities for Community College Students at WHOI

    Community colleges contain an untapped source of diverse and talented students. The students tend to be local, non-traditional, socio-economically disadvantage…

  • Studying Retention and Graduation of Underrepresented CS Students at Multiple Institutions

    This talk reflects upon a multi-institutional project looking at practices to improve retention and graduation rates of Black computer science (CS) majors. Ove…

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AAAS-IUSE is looking for resources that will help principal investigators, faculty and other education leaders improve undergraduate STEM education. If there is a type of resource you would like to see more of, or a specific resource you would like to recommend, please reach out below.