Progress Toward Achieving Systemic Change: Report on the Association of American Universities’ Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

While there has been significant research conducted demonstrating that with active learning pedagogies, undergraduate STEM students--including underrepresented students--learn more, persist, and complete their undergraduate degrees, these proven teaching practices are not yet the norm in most undergraduate science courses. Through the Association of American Universities’ (AAU) Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative, the nation’s top research universities are identifying successful strategies to overcome the cultural and institutional barriers to achieving wide-spread and long-lasting improvement to introductory STEM courses. This session will engage participants in a reflective discussion of AAU’s five-year status report on the undergraduate STEM education initiative, Progress Toward Achieving Systemic Change.

Sub Unit

• AERA Sessions

Cosponsor

• Consortium of University and Research Institutions

Chair

• Karen Symms Gallagher, University of Southern California

Participants

• Tobin Smith, Association of American Universities

• Emily Miller, Association of American Universities

• James S. Fairweather, Michigan State University

Discussants

• Kathryn B. Chval, University of Missouri - Columbia

• Sylvia Hurtado, University of California - Los Angeles