Senior Research Associate PRISSEM Academic Services Powhatan, Virginia, United States
Are you looking for funding to support STEM students or your ideas for how to not only improve STEM education, but contribute to meaningful reform? Do you have ideas for collaborating with your colleagues across disciplines or institutions on how to do this important work? Are you from an institution that receives little federal research funding?
If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, this featured session is for you! The first part of this session will offer an overview of NSF’s mission, its overall strategic interests related to broadening the participation of marginalized students, and its merit review criteria. Participants will learn about NSF funding opportunities that can be leveraged to advance and accelerate broadening participation research and practice. Special focus will be placed on analyzing relevant, real-world case studies that address challenges and successful strategies associated with inter- and cross-disciplinary research and interventions, as well as those that cross institutional boundaries. The second part of this session invites participants to consider how they may become more engaged in STEM education research, how to establish collaborations with evaluators and colleagues in the social sciences, and how taking these steps can fit into their professional goals, reduce their workload demands, and empower them to be advocates and influencers in undergraduate STEM reform.
