Redefining the STEM Ecosystem & Shifting the Paradigm

The higher education STEM ecosystem is shaped by decentralized infrastructures leading to questions of what STEM is, and institutional practices that predetermine who belongs. These misaligned structures lead to issues that small-scale, isolated interventions cannot fix. This opening session of the series urges a paradigm shift away from piecemeal interventions toward institutional transformation at scale, and will set the framework for future sessions addressing various factors impacting STEM student success.


Featuring:

Edmund Graham, Associate Director, Bowman Center for Scholarship to Practice

Heather McCambly, Associate Professor of Critical Higher Education Policy, University of Pittsburgh

Aireale J. Rodgers, Assistant Professor of Higher Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison


About the series:

Reimagining STEM Student Success is a new series designed to advance the recommendations of the STEM Success Working Group by positioning organizational change as the primary lever for student success. Across five sessions, expert insights will connect research to concrete U-M practices to transform our campus systems, cultures, and structures.


Sponsors:

Access & Opportunity; Center for Educational Outreach (CEO); Comprehensive Studies Program; Michigan Program for Advancing Cultural Transformation (M-PACT); Office of Faculty Development at the U-M Medical School; Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education; Student Success Initiative; Phillip J. Bowman Center for Scholarship to Practice; UROP: A Center for Research, Scholarship and Creative Inquiry