First Look: Authentic Perspectives on STEM Reform from HBCUs

This webinar previewed a special issue of the AAC&U journal Peer Review, which featured articles by HBCU STEM faculty who completed the Leadership Development Program of the NSF-Funded Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership (CASL). As national efforts to diversify STEM continue, the authentic voices of scholar-leaders who continue the broadening participation legacy and success of African Americans in STEM are vital to this conversation. Participants examined what is at the soul of leadership for broadening participation in STEM.

“In many instances, these authors, who represent a growing community of HBCU leader-scholars, unveil for us the unwritten codes that undergird how they, as Frederick Douglass suggested, ‘make the [broadening participation] roads on which they travel . . . [and] build their own ladders.’ What emerges from the following pages is a blueprint for all of us to follow—one that shows us how to integrate our own unique personal histories into an all-encompassing leadership practice that serves, with intentionality and specificity, positive outcomes from broadening participation.”

This webinar featured the work of the Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership, which the National Science Foundation HBCU Undergraduate Program generously funded.