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Student Success in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2018, according to the Pew Research Center, Black students earned just 7% of STEM bachelors degrees, compared to their 10% share of all bachelors degrees and 12% representation in the adult population. Developing STEM Programs and Enrichment Opportunities Enrichment programs deepen student engagement and build valuable skills.

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Impacting Policy and Creating Greater Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Currently a doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin, Michael Reid, Jr., is intent on utilizing research to examine poverty as a barrier to student development. During that time, he did research on income segregation, which motivated him toward his current focus. After completing his Ph.D.

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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

The Scholarly Teacher

At times, however, that stone may feel like a boulder, especially to research faculty who are used to delivering lectures and to whom the switch to activity-based learning may seem like a daunting and demanding venture into unfamiliar territory. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Two birds with one stone.

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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

Ford, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Jillian Saraney, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Key Statement: Service-learning projects designed by students can meet community needs while elevating student learning, engagement, and success by integrating high-impact practices (HIPs) and HIP elements. 2017, October 20).

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Inquiring Minds Want to Know…About Social, Cognitive, and Teacher Presence Online

The Scholarly Teacher

Kari Henry Hulett , Northeastern State University Maria Gray , Northeastern State University Key Statement: Faculty can intentionally design courses using the Community of Inquiry Framework to achieve greater student engagement and learning outcomes. Garrison et al. Image by , Unsplash.

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Welcome to Jan-March learning & teaching enhancement theme: In-class Perspectives to Engaging and Empowering Learners

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In the third instalment of our series focused on engaging and empowering learners through diverse perspectives in the classroom, the authors of these blog posts share reflections on how their educational practices and personal experiences shape their approaches to student engagement.

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Faculty-Student Partnerships in Curriculum Design and Review

The Scholarly Teacher

One of the foundational studies in this field is Healey, Flint, and Harrington's (2014), offering a conceptual model that outlines student engagement through partnership with faculty through four pathways: assessment projects, curriculum consultation, subject-based research, and SoTL (see Figure 1).

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