Diversity, Culture, and Identity in America's Research Universities: Research-Based Initiatives that Promote Shared Discovery and Learning by Students, Faculty, and Staff

该项目是为了支持将于11月14日至15日举行的2016年创新中心全国大会。由改造中心主办的定期全国会议被用来展示许多本科STEM教育的进步，也为网络官员提供了一个便利的场所，帮助他们提高大学本科STEM教育的质量。2016年的会议目标是重点研究多样性、文化和身份认同对以下方面的影响：1.本科学习、学位完成情况，以及不同群体之间学生成功模式的差距；2.涉及教师、博士后、研究生和本科生的发现和学习活动垂直整合的可能性；3.研究型大学不同行政部门横向整合发现和学习的可能性。该项目被视为改善本科STEM教育的国家图景的一部分，是对美国大学协会、公立和土地赠与大学协会、美国学院和大学协会以及越来越多致力于改善本科STEM教育的地区和国家机构网络的持续努力的有益补充，例如研究、教学和学习一体化中心(有46名成员)、大学创新联盟(有11所公立大学成员)和湾景联盟(有6所美国大学和3所加拿大大学成员)。它有助于实现IUSE：支持社区转型的EHR目标。

This project is to support the Reinvention Center's 2016 National Conference, to be held November 14-15. Periodic national conferences hosted by the Reinvention Center are used to showcase a number of undergraduate STEM education advances and also provide a convenient venue for networking officials working to improve the quality of undergraduate STEM education in their universities. The 2016 conference goals are to highlight research on the impact of diversity, culture, and identity on: 1. Undergraduate learning, degree completion, and gaps in patterns of student success across different sub-populations; 2. Possibilities for vertical integration of discovery and learning activities involving faculty, post-docs, graduate students, undergraduates; and 3. Possibilities for horizontal integration of discovery and learning across different administrative divisions in research universities. Viewed as part of the national picture for improving undergraduate STEM education, this project is a highly useful complement to ongoing efforts by the Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and a growing number of regional and national networks of institutions with focused improvement efforts for undergraduate STEM education, such as the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (with 46 members), the University Innovation Alliance (11 public university members), and the Bayview Alliance (with 6 US and 3 Canadian university members). It contributes to the IUSE: EHR objective of supporting Community Transformation.