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Through its Office of Undergraduate STEM Education (OUSE), AAC&U works to empower institutions of higher education to catalyze higher education reform in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
Through its Office of Undergraduate STEM Education, AAC&U works to empower institutions of higher education to catalyze higher education reform in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM); lead national efforts that foster discovery and innovation in STEM faculty professional development; and advance equity in service to building a diverse, competitively trained STEM workforce.
The AAC&U Transforming STEM Higher Education Conference advances undergraduate STEM education reform by foregrounding the diverse perspectives, worldviews, voices, and desires of STEM faculty—especially those from groups that have been historically marginalized in STEM. This event provides a deeper understanding of classroom, institutional, and national levers of reform and outlines a national agenda for manipulating those levers to drive discovery, innovation, and social change in STEM higher education.
Project Kaleidoscope is AAC&U’s center of STEM higher education reform dedicated to empowering STEM faculty, including those from underrepresented groups, to graduate more students in STEM fields who are competitively trained and liberally educated.
TIDES builds the capacity of STEM faculty & administrators (individuals and teams) to explore the root causes, unwritten codes, & systemic origins of institutional barriers that limit our potential for effective & sustainable institutional change.
The Inclusive Excellence Commission complements Inclusive Excellence: Engaging All Students in Science, an HHMI initiative that challenges US institutions to substantially and sustainably increase their capacity for the inclusion of all students.
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AAC&U and its Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) will bring together faculty, staff, and administrators to critically examine and explore some of the most pressing challenges in STEM higher education reform today.
When a college or university joins AAC&U, the entire campus community becomes part of a global network of educators committed to extending the advantages of a liberal education to all students, regardless of academic specialization or intended career.