Being Human in STEM 2020 Conference

该项目旨在支持国家对提高学生在本科STEM教育中的成功的需求。它将通过组织一次关于在STEM中做人（HSTEM）的会议来做到这一点。HSTEM始于阿默斯特学院，以响应学生在学术经历中更大的包容性和归属感的呼吁。参与机构的学生，特别是来自代表性不足群体的学生，描述了他们在追求STEM道路时面临的许多挑战。作为回应，这些机构开发并完善了包容性STEM课程的HSTEM模型。HSTEM模式结合了具体的教学实践，以及关于包容性和多样性研究的课程，以及以学生为主导的以STEM教育为重点的项目。HSTEM团队调查不同学生在STEM课程和实验室中的经历，试图了解他们自己的校园和其他教育环境中的挑战和最佳实践。自2016年开发以来，HSTEM项目已被其他七所机构采用。另外还有十几所大学询问了如何在校园内建立HSTEM项目。2020年HSTEM会议将帮助HSTEM项目负责人开发可共享的HSTEM项目资源，开发新的合作伙伴关系和实施模式，设计计划以评估HSTEM对各机构学生和教师的影响，并探索维持该倡议的战略。随着学生群体变得越来越多样化，学院和大学对能够提高所有学生成功的策略和干预措施感兴趣。HSTEM计划有潜力吸引大量的学生、教师和工作人员，在整个高等教育机构中播种包容原则。因为它们促进了教师、学生和工作人员共同学习和分享经验的能力，HSTEM课程和教学实践使跨越传统界限的多样性和包容性对话成为可能。学生与他们的教师一起成为知识的共同创造者，制度的变化可以与学生的需求和经验保持一致。2020年HSTEM会议将召集来自耶鲁大学和布朗大学、阿默斯特和威廉姆斯学院以及犹他大学的HSTEM领导者和学生合作伙伴。会议将完善和标准化评估HSTEM项目成功的策略，确定如何在不同的机构环境中最好地实施该项目，并为维持该项目并将其扩展到其他机构奠定基础。会议结束后，与会者将通过建立国家传播系统和工具，并为一个公开的在线资源库做出贡献，合作增加对HSTEM资源的获取。与会者还将为其他院校制定采用该模式的指导方针，并努力建立一个更正式的HSTEM院校网络。会议结构旨在通过以下组成部分实现这些目标：研讨会会议，参与分析跨合作校园的HSTEM模型的共享和独特特征；由HSTEM学生合作伙伴组成的小组，探讨未来如何提升HSTEM模式，以更好地满足学生成功的需要；一位外部主题演讲者，他是全国公认的STEM包容性教学法专家，以奠定和扩大对话；与地区多样性和包容性专家举行远景会议，考虑如何维持、评估和扩大HSTEM倡议。本项目由美国国家科学基金会改进本科STEM教育计划：教育与人力资源资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project aims to support the national need for increased student success in undergraduate STEM education. It will do so by organizing a conference on Being Human in STEM (HSTEM). HSTEM began at Amherst College in response to student calls for greater inclusion and sense of belonging in their academic experiences. Students at the participating institutions, especially students from underrepresented groups, have described the many challenges they face as they pursue a pathway in STEM. In response, the institutions developed and refined the HSTEM model for inclusive STEM curriculum. The HSTEM model incorporates specific teaching practices, together with a course about inclusion and diversity research, and student-led projects focused on STEM education. HSTEM teams investigate the experiences of diverse students in STEM courses and labs, seeking to understand challenges and best practices on their own campus and in other educational environments. Since it was developed in 2016, the HSTEM program has been adopted by seven other institutions. More than a dozen additional colleges have asked about how to establish HSTEM initiatives on their campuses. The 2020 HSTEM conference will help the HSTEM program leaders to develop shareable HSTEM program resources, develop new partnerships and implementation models, design plans to evaluate HSTEM impacts on students and faculty across institutions, and explore strategies for sustaining the initiative. As their student populations become increasingly more diverse, colleges and universities are interested in strategies and interventions that can increase the success of all students. HSTEM initiatives have the potential to engage a critical mass of students, faculty, and staff in seeding inclusion principles throughout higher education institutions. Because they promote the ability of faculty, students, and staff to learn together and share experiences, HSTEM courses and pedagogical practices enable conversations about diversity and inclusion across traditional boundaries. Students become co-creators of knowledge alongside their instructors and institutional changes can be aligned with student needs and experiences. The 2020 HSTEM Conference will convene HSTEM leaders and student partners from Yale and Brown Universities, Amherst and Williams Colleges, and the University of Utah. Conference sessions will refine and standardize strategies for assessing the success of HSTEM programs, determine how to best implement the program across different institutional settings, and lay the groundwork for sustaining the program and expanding it to other institutions. After the conference, participants will collaborate to increase access to HSTEM resources by establishing systems and tools for national dissemination and contributing to a publicly available online repository. Conference participants will also formulate guidelines for other institutions to adopt the model and work to develop a more formal network of HSTEM institutions. The conference structure is designed to accomplish these goals via the following components: workshop sessions to engage in analysis of shared and unique features of HSTEM models across partner campuses; panels of student HSTEM partners to reflect on future opportunities to enhance the HSTEM model to better serve student success needs; an external keynote speaker who is a nationally recognized STEM inclusive pedagogy expert to ground and expand the conversation; and visioning sessions with regional diversity and inclusion experts to consider how to sustain, assess, and expand the HSTEM initiative. This project is funded by the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Program: Education and Human Resources.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.