CIRTL Forum 2005
Addressing the Student Learning Experience:
Achieving Diversity in STEM Disciplines
May 25-26, 2005
The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor's Club
Madison, WI
About the Conference:
CIRTL’s 2005 national Forum, Addressing the Student Learning Experience: Achieving Diversity in STEM Disciplines, focused on diversity, with an emphasis on how to improve the STEM classroom experience for women and underrepresented minority students. While many resources exist that “wrap around” and support underrepresented students, these programs do not, by design, directly impact classroom experiences. We suggested that inclusive learning environments, both in and out of the classroom, benefit not only underrepresented students, but all students.
The spring 2005 Forum built upon the 2003 CIRTL Forum that brought together over 200 deans, provosts, faculty members, department chairs and graduate students to Madison to define the present landscape of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduate training in teaching and learning at research universities across the nation, and to build connections among these STEM graduate programs.
Conference Goals:
- To provide tools, resources and strategies with which faculty, teaching staff, and future faculty could substantively and directly improve the student learning experience, with a particular focus on women and underrepresented minorities.
- To highlight the work of our national network of Diversity Scholars and the products of the CIRTL Diversity Institute.
- To showcase programs at research universities throughout the nation whose goal is to improve the retention of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM disciplines
- To build connections that support inclusive STEM learning environments at research universities across the nation.
Attendees:
Addressing the Student Learning Experience: Achieving Diversity in STEM Disciplines was designed to be useful for institutional teams whose members play varied roles in improving the retention of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM disciplines. Teams of 3 to 4 proved effective at our previous forum, and were comprised of graduate school and college deans, STEM faculty and academic staff, and graduate students. Institutions sent teams of about the same size and composition to the spring 2005 Forum.
Participating Institutions:
| Boston University Brown University California State Polytechnic University, Pomona City College of San Francisco City University of New York Colorado State University Florida State University Georgia Institute of Technology Howard University Indiana University Iowa State University Kansas State University Madison Area Technical College Michigan State University Mississippi State University North Carolina State University Northern Illinois University Ohio University Oregon State University Purdue University Rutgers University Stony Brook University Syracuse University Temple University Texas A&M University The Ohio State University University of Alabama University of Arizona |
University of Arkansas University of California-Santa Barbara University of Chicago University of Cincinnati University of Colorado University of Florida University of Georgia University of Houston University of Illinois University of Kentucky University of Louisville University of Maryland University of Massachusetts-Amherst University of Miami University of Michigan University of Missouri-Columbia University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of North Texas University of Notre Dame University of Oklahoma University of South Carolina University of Southern California University of Texas at Austin University of Vermont University of Washington University of Wisconsin University of Wisconsin-Rock County Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Tech Washington University in St. Louis |
Questions or comments regarding the
CIRTL Forum 2005
can be directed to Forum05@cirtl.net
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0227592
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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