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SMTI Conferences & Meetings

NSEC 2017 National Conference

Dates: June 23-24, 2017.
Immediately following the NSEC 2017 National Conference, we are hosting a meeting for practitioners engaged in improving undergraduate STEM education and experts in higher education change. See below for more details about this joint SMTI and ASCN meeting.
Start Time for NSEC 2017: 8:30 am CT, June 23, 2017
End Time for NSEC 2017: 4:00 pm CT, June 24, 2017
Location: Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans.
Audience: The conference is for representatives from campus STEM Education Centers or Centers for Teaching and Learning that have a STEM agenda, or those who work closely with these centers. The focus is specifically on centers engaged in improving undergraduate STEM education, including teacher preparation and broader impacts in STEM.

Registration and Call for Proposals coming in January!

SMTI and ASCN (Accelerating Systemic Change Network) joint meeting

Dates: June 24-25, 2017.
Immediately follows the NSEC 2017 National Conference.
Start Time for SMTI/ASCN 2017: 3:00 pm CT, June 24, 2017
End Time for SMTI/ASCN 2017: 5:30 pm CT, June 25, 2017
Location: Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans.
Purpose: This meeting will be an opportunity to bridge the gap between research and practice on transforming institutions. We are bringing together faculty who are researching systemic change at higher education institutions with those who are making systemic change happen at their individual institutions.
Audience: Faculty, staff, and administrators who are implementing programs to improve undergraduate STEM education, and faculty who are researching systemic change at higher education institutions.

Registration and Call for Proposals coming in January!

The Accelerating Systemic Change Network (ASCN) is a network of individuals and institutions, formed with the goal of more quickly advancing STEM education programs. Our unique approach is to bring together those who are researching systemic change at higher education institutions, with those who are making systemic change happen at their individual institutions. By closing the loop between researchers and change agents, we aim to accelerate change at program and institution levels, and to improve STEM education nationally.

Past national conferences

Theme: Center Roles in Improving Undergraduate STEM Education
Dates: June 8-9, 2016. There is a follow-on workshop June 9-10.
Location: Hotel Contessa in San Antonio

Keynote Speaker: Shirley Malcom, Head of Education and Human Resources Programs (EHR), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and committee chair of the National Academies’ Barriers and Opportunities for 2-Year and 4-Year STEM Degrees.

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About the Conference

The Science and Mathematics Teaching Imperative (SMTI) in partnership with the Network of STEM Education Centers (NSEC) is now seeking proposals for presentations for the SMTI/NSEC 2016 National Conference, June 8-9, at the Hotel Contessa in San Antonio. The conference will focus on centers engaged specifically in improving undergraduate STEM education, and/or involved in STEM teacher preparation and connection of the undergraduate experience with community efforts and broader impacts in STEM. The conference is open to representatives from campus STEM Education Centers or Centers for Teaching and Learning that have a STEM agenda, or those who work closely with these centers. We also invite faculty and administrators engaged in improving STEM teaching and teacher preparation from APLU institutions.

June 9-10, 2016
In conjunction with the 2016 SMTI/NSEC National Conference
San Antonio, TX

November 8-9, 2015
In conjunction with the POD Network National Conference
San Francisco, CA

The workshop was held in conjunction with the 2015 STEM Education Centers’ Workshop on Engaging Faculty on June 5, 2016. This workshop was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Theme: STEM Education Centers Network
Dates: June 3-4, 2015
Start time: 8:00 am CT on June 3, 2015
End time: 3:30 pm CT on June 4, 2015
Location: Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans

Speakers

Keynote: Susan R. Singer, Division Director for Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation and the Laurence McKinley Gould Professor, in the Biology and Cognitive Science Departments at Carleton College.

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The workshop was held in Indianapolis on October 25, 2014, with 55 STEM Education Center directors and staff. Check out the agenda.

The workshop was held in St. Louis on September 15-16, 2013, with 45 STEM Education Center directors and staff. Check out the agenda and read the STEM Education Center Workshop 2013 report.

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