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Integrating Active Learning in Large STEM Lectures

The Scholarly Teacher

Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash. We also explored how clickers and quizzing may fit into course design to provide greater tools of participation for the students and enrich their classroom experience and study patterns. Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics.

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Student Success in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While women have achieved parity in some STEM fields, such as biological sciences, they remain underrepresented in high-paying and high-demand areas like engineering and computer science. Minorities, particularly Black and Latino students, remain underrepresented in STEM fields relative to their proportions in the overall population.

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Fostering blended-mode engagement with active learning seminars

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Gerogiorgis, Personal Chair of Process Systems Engineering at The University of Edinburgh, explores the dynamic integration of active learning seminars in engineering education. Drawing on his extensive academic and research experience, Prof. How can we embark upon Active Learning Seminars without some basic study? Feb 13, 2025

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Jackson to Step Away from Cal Poly Humboldt Post

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I have had the privilege to work alongside scientists and future scientists, teachers and future teachers, artists and future artists, engineers and future engineers, and leaders and future leaders.” Jackson is the university’s first Black president and its first Filipino and Native American president.

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Learning Assistantships

The Scholarly Teacher

For community college students, the primary opportunity for engagement is in the classroom, as they typically attend part-time with fewer extracurricular opportunities than their four-year counterparts. What other mechanisms, both in and outside the classroom, can support student engagement at the community college level?

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over the last five years, there has been an 11% increase in the four-year graduation rate for Latinx students. Targeted initiatives include first-year programs, academic resources, mentorship programs and student engagement activities. Our data show significant gains in student retention and graduation rates.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Associate Engineering Program at Wright College (EPW) Part of the City Colleges of Chicago, Wright College is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550 today. It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68