Fall 2016 Course
3 alumni from the pilot Spring 2016 course continued this semester, with Megan Lyster, assistant director for Center for Community Engagement at Amherst College, co-teaching the course. The major project we focused on this semester was creating different easy-to-implement workshop guides for professors to facilitate and assess the following questions:
Click on the tabs below to explore the methods, findings, and feedback from the pilot workshop.
- What is diversity?
- Why is diversity important in STEM?
- What are the main challenges facing underrepresented students in STEM?
- What's happening at your institution?
- What are effective approaches of supporting students from all backgrounds?
Click on the tabs below to explore the methods, findings, and feedback from the pilot workshop.
Note: this part is still under construction. However, our overall methods and key findings are outlined in the poster here.
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Methods
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Key Findings
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Feedback
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Pre-Class Activity Results: only 3 respondents, but common themes were:
- Academic required of STEM students
- Observations focused more on work habits/strategies
- One respondent noted that STEM students do tend to group into categories based on major or intended career path
- No mention of how ethnicity or other demographics are represented