Funded partially by the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, this two-day workshop will feature the latest findings on best practices in postsecondary STEM education. We have specifically tailored the workshop to address needs of campus administrators and faculty interested in pursuing innovative strategies to recruit, retain, and graduate increased numbers of undergraduates in STEM. Participants will learn from experts who have been researching undergraduate STEM student pathways and successful interventions for more than a decade. The slate of speakers also includes campus leaders who are successfully transforming undergraduate STEM education at their institutions.
Venue: Moore Hall, UCLA
Lodging: A limited number of rooms at a special conference rate of $195/night are available at the Hotel Angeleno. Reservations can be made by calling 1-866-264-3536. Please reference “UCLA-HERI Summer Institute.”
Featured Speakers for STEM Summer Institute 2017
Dr. Carl Wieman
Professor, Department of Physics and Graduate School of Education
Stanford University
Founder of PhET Interactive Simulations
Former Associate Director for Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the White House
Nobel Prize Laureate in physics in 2001 for the first creation of a Bose-Einstein condensate
2004 Carnegie Foundation US University Professor of the Year
National Science Teachers Association, Lifetime achievement award
Expertise:
- He pioneered experimental techniques evaluating the effectiveness of various teaching strategies for physics and other sciences.
- Recent book released in 2017: Improving How Universities Teach Science: Lessons from the Science Education Initiative
Dr. Sylvia Hurtado
Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
Expertise:
- Student educational outcomes
- Campus climate
- College impact on student development
- STEM education
- Diversity in higher education
Dr. Kevin Eagan
Asst. Professor, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Managing Director, Higher Education Research Institute
University of California, Los Angeles
Expertise:
- Undergraduate STEM education, contingent faculty, student retention, institutional contexts and structures of opportunity, survey validity and reliability
- Advanced quantitative methods
This institute is offered in conjunction with the GSE&IS Learning Together: Practitioners and Scholars in Partnership Conference. If you are also interested in attending that event please go to https://learning-together-ucla.org/registration. Otherwise, you are welcome to register for this institute only, independent of the GSE&IS conference.