2024 Massachusetts PKAL Summer Meeting

Description

Project Kaleidoscope is AAC&U's STEM Center of Higher Education reform initiatives dedicated to empowering all STEM faculty and administrators to graduate more students who are competitively trained in STEM disciplines and liberally educated for an increasingly technologically-based world. The PKAL Regional Networks provide low-cost, effective professional development opportunities for STEM faculty and administrators to foster a caring community, explore and advance modern undergraduate STEM pedagogies, disseminate findings from undergraduate STEM research and practice, and promote STEM faculty career advancement.

This year’s MA PKAL summer conference will revisit themes from past meetings and provide an opportunity for presenters to share updates, celebrate successes, and describe new directions in pedagogy. STEM faculty members from public and private 2- and 4-year higher education institutions are invited to submit a presentation proposal that may address (but is not limited to):

• STEM teaching that supports foundational skills (e.g., reading, writing, quantitative reasoning, information literacy)
• STEM skill transfer across disciplines and from the classroom to the workplace
• Integrating research and other high impact practices into the STEM classroom and curriculum
• Supporting diverse students through pedagogical practices, faculty development, and/or academic structures
• Community-based research in STEM programs
  

Fitchburg State University will serve as the host institute for the 2024 Massachusetts PKAL Spring Meeting,

The call for proposals is opening soon!

Massachusetts PKAL Regional Meeting Host

Your host for this meeting is Dr. Elizabeth Gordon, Professor of Earth Science at Fitchburg State University. For more information about the meeting, please contact Dr. Gordon directly.