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Addressing Diversity in STEM Education: Authenticity and Integration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Fiona M. Goodchild  and
Maria O. Aguirre
Fiona M. Goodchild
Affiliation:
fiona@cnsi.ucsb.edu
Maria O. Aguirre
Affiliation:
aguirre@cnsi.ucsb.edu
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Abstract

This talk will reflect on the challenges of designing educational opportunities that broaden diversity in the ranks of future scientists and engineers. The speaker, who is Education Director at the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will report on the design and evaluation of a program that integrates academic, career and social components to engage a community of undergraduates, graduate mentors and research faculty at UCSB. The program builds on key practices such as academic mentorship, community networking and early undergraduate research. Evaluation of this program, Expanding Pathways to Science, Engineering and Mathematics (EPSEM) indicates that it has been successful in recruiting and retaining students from under-represented (URM) groups into science, technology, engineering and math disciplines (STEM disciplines).

Keywords

amorphouseducationnanoscale
Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1233: Symposium PP – Materials Education , 2009 , 1233-PP01-05
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2010

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