Free Webinar: Increasing Success for Underrepresented Students in STEM
How can universities support first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented minority STEM students? Collaborating between academic and student affairs can play an important role, according to a key study by Pullias researchers.
This finding comes from a three-year, eight-campus study of the California State University (CSU) STEM Collaboratives project, funded by the Helmsley Charitable Trust. Elizabeth Holcombe, research assistant at Pullias Center, will share the major takeaways from this study in a free seminar hosted by the Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN) next week.
Creating a Unified Community of Support: Increasing Success for Underrepresented Students in STEM
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
9:30 am PT | 10:30 am MT | 11:30 am CT | 12:30 pm ET
This webinar, designed for faculty as well as institutional and national level change leaders, will discuss the knowledge necessary to support underrepresented students in STEM, as well as the facilitators and challenges to collaboration and implementation.
“While doing this type of integrated, collaborative work is not easy, any difficulties the campus teams faced were outweighed by the benefits for students, faculty, and staff,” wrote Holcombe in a blog post about the project.
During the webinar, participants will:
- Review key research findings from the CSU STEM Collaboratives project
- Develop an understanding of several ways to integrate curricular and co-curricular supports for underrepresented students in STEM
- Recognize key challenges and facilitators to collaborating across departments and divisions in order to implement integrated support programs
- Discuss ways to collaborate and integrate student supports on their own campuses
RSVP by Monday, March 26, 2018, to participate in this free seminar.