A Unique and Scalable Model for Increasing Research Engagement, STEM Persistence, and Entry into Doctoral Programs

By |2024-01-31T16:19:38-05:00October 25th, 2023|News|

Low persistence in science majors and limited participation in high-impact research experiences contribute to the nationwide underrepresentation of minorities in the science workforce, particularly jobs requiring a graduate degree.

Enhancing Research Mentors’ Cultural Awareness in STEM: A Mentor Training Intervention

By |2022-09-12T13:29:18-04:00September 12th, 2022|News|

Research mentoring relationships are critical to mentees’ persistence in STEM careers. Our results indicate that the ECA module is an effective tool to increase mentors’ capacity to enact culturally aware mentoring practices.

2022 Understanding Interventions Writing Retreat

By |2022-03-12T14:51:42-05:00March 9th, 2022|Events|

The Understanding Interventions Developing Publications for the Dissemination of Efforts that Broaden Participation in STEM Writing Retreat aims to support writing by faculty, administrators, scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and others involved in interventions that broaden participation in STEM. The writing retreat focuses on writing about the delivery of programs and other broadening participation efforts and allows participants to write about their practice, share outcomes from program assessments and evaluations, claims about policy, enter discussions about institutional reform, argue about ideas concerning the impact of interventions on student success in STEM, and address a variety of other concerns about academic writing.

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