Eight Actions to Reduce Racism in College Classrooms
This short article offers eight steps to help faculty respond to racism in classrooms and promote inclusive environments on campus.
This short article offers eight steps to help faculty respond to racism in classrooms and promote inclusive environments on campus.
Some teachers are using research-based teaching methods that build trust in minority students, acknowledge students’ self worth, and emphasize intelligence as fluid and growing.
The threat of confirming a racial or gender stereotype in the classroom leaves many minority students with stress and anxiety. This article outlines ways to combat stereotype threat.
Engaging Mathematics has published manuals that help teachers incorporate civic issues such as sustainability, climate change, and water pollution into statistics, algebra, modeling, and other mathematics courses. Dr. Rikki Wagstrom, […]
Allowing midterm evaluations to be a time for students to reflect on their own learning progress provides teachers with more-detailed and thorough feedback.
The PULSE Vision & Change Rubrics, version 1.0, assess life sciences departments’ progress toward implementation of the principles of the Vision and Change report. This paper reports on the development of the […]
The feeling that you don’t belong can make it harder for graduate students to finish school. This article provides tips to advisors for combating imposter syndrome.
Although there are not enough tenure-track jobs to match the supply of new STEM Ph.D.s, discouraging students from pursuing graduate school would disproportionately affect women and underrepresented minorities.
UW-Madison engineering professors have found that flipped classrooms allow students to better interact with the material during class time.
A new report outlines the state of STEM education for minority students and what HBCU’s do to produce successful STEM professionals.