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BUILDING COMMUNITIES OF
STAKEHOLDERS FOR STEM RESEARCH
AND EDUCATIONORAU Annual Meeting -- March 22,
2012Elizabeth S. Boylan
Program DirectorSTEM Higher Education
STEM HIGHER EDUCATION
To improve the quality and increase the diversity
of higher education in STEM
.
Elizabeth S. Boylan
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Education of Individuals from
Underrepresented Groups• Minority Ph.D. Scholarship Program
• Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership
• Projects supporting individuals from underrepresented groups
Student Performance & Retention: Institutional Analysis and
Interventions
• STEM student recruitment & retention studies
• The science of learning science• Faculty/academic leader development to support achievement and retention of students from all groups
Professional Advancement of Individuals from
Underrepresented Groups
• Professional advancement of individuals from underrepresented groups who are in faculty and academic leadership positions
Interactions and
Synergies
Sloan’s STEM Higher Education Program
3/22/12
Presented by Lynne Molter, AAAS, February 18, 2012
Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Student Migration in and out of STEM Fields
CUSTEMSConsortium for Undergraduate STEM
Success
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CUSTEMS Goals
• Develop appropriate and effective ways to analyze data for a wide range of institutions
• Identify patterns of and longitudinal changes in retention, migration, and attrition
• Establish a self-sustaining group of institutions who are committed to adapting their strategies for successful educational outcomes for STEM students
CUSTEMS
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Data Analysis
• Office of Educational Assessment at the University of Washington --performs standardized analyses, including descriptive tables, charts, and graphs
• Office of Institutional Research at Swarthmore --performs decision tree and cluster analyses, and uses other visualization techniques; it also responds to specialized requests from participants
CUSTEMS
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CUSTEMS Participants
(About 40 institutions)• Public universities, including Thurgood
Marshall College Fund members
• Private universities
• Liberal arts colleges
CUSTEMS
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Course, Grade, and GPA Data
• Grade in gateway course vs. retention
• Graduation GPA vs. retentiono By Majoro Overall
• Disaggregated by discipline; gender; under-represented minority, first generation, socioeconomic status, etc.
CUSTEMS
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Sample 1 Student Migration Patterns Based on Grade
in Gateway Course by STEM Discipline and Gender
CUSTEMS
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Elizabeth S. Boylan
THE CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE Program director: Jesse Ausubel
Decade-long (2000-2010) program to assess and explain the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine life
>2700 scientists, >80 countries, >540 field expeditions
Approximately $80 million from Sloan toward total project costs of $650 million (12%)
Expansion of the Encyclopedia of Life:
>100,000 marine species now have EOL pages
Products:
3100 publications, ~250 PhD theses, books, films, artwork
Library of “DNA Barcodes” for species identification -- about 35,000 marine species barcoded to date
Barcodes Showed Mislabelings as More Expensive Fish“Red Snapper” also identified via DNA bar-coding as:
Slender Pinjalo (SE Asia) and Acadian Redfish (North Atlantic)
“Red Snapper” DNA ID: Nile PerchRed Snapper
to scale
Range map: FishBase Range map: FishBase
FishBase: D Flescher FishBase: John Casselman
Source: Stoeckle & Strauss
Red Snapper “Red Snapper” DNA ID -- Nile perch
ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION
MISSION AND GOALS
To support original research and education
related to STEM fields,
economic performance,
and the quality of American lifeThrough--community building
--data storage and accessibility--focus on goals and metrics of success
--improved public understanding of science and technology