This project is designed for Two-Year College (2YC) faculty and staffÌýinterested in enhancing undergraduate education in a STEM academic departmentÌýor unit. Project participants will explore and collectively define approachesÌýto change that are supportive of STEM-related units in 2YCs. Outcomes ofÌýparticipating include creating a Change Exploration Team (CET), exploringÌýways of implementing department-wide educational change in a 2YC context,Ìýgaining individual skills to support educational change, and testing ideasÌýthrough a small-scale project onÌýcampus.
A CET is a working group of a minimum of 3 faculty, staff, administrators,Ìýand potentially students, formed to explore change processes in 2YC STEMÌýacademic contexts. Up to fifteen CETs from a variety of 2YCs areÌýparticipating in a four-part workshop series taking place between August 2023Ìýand August 2024. Teams supporting a STEM department or another STEM-relatedÌýacademic unit within a 2YC within the US are eligible to apply. A workshopÌýseries will support CETs in collectively choosing, designing, and carryingÌýout a small, local change-relatedÌýproject.
The project team is being led by two 2YC STEM faculty members withÌýprofessional development experience and supported by researchers withÌýexpertise in evidence-based institutional change. The project team willÌýfacilitate the workshops and focus on exploring and supporting change topicsÌýand CET project work. Their primary goal is to create an environment in whichÌýCETs are likely to achieve success.Ìý
Applications are now closed.
Questions about the project can be directed to Tara Jo (TJ) Holmberg:
tarajoholmberg@gmail.com
Ìý
PROGRAM FOCUS: Faculty development, Professional development/continuing education, Program evaluation, Undergraduate education, Institutional change, Department-level change. DISCIPLINES: Biology, Chemistry, Computer science, Engineering, Environmental Science, Geosciences, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology. EDUCATION CONTEXT: Two-Year Colleges, Undergraduate.
Ìý