Staff Highlights

APLU’s Bernard Mair spoke on incorporating data metrics in tenure and promotion processes at the Make Data Count Summit in Washington, DC.

APLU’s Julia Michaels will present on APLU’s Powered by Publics initiative at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Student Success Acceleration Program convening in September.

APLU’s Julia Chadwick and Megan Tesene presented on using digital courseware to help drive course redesign efforts in gateway courses at Gardner Institute’s Symposium on Transforming the Foundational Postsecondary Experience. They shared lessons from previous grant work, highlighting the strategies and practices university exemplars employed to cultivate faculty buy-in, build relationships among campus stakeholders, and support departmental-level efforts to adopt new technologies and implement quality pedagogy in gateway courses at scale.

APLU’s Megan Tesene is presenting at the Educause Annual ELI Meeting on applications of digital courseware in gateway courses to improve learning and equity.

APLU’s Denise Nadasen is presenting at the Association of Institutional Research Annual Forum on building an effective data culture.

APLU’s Alvaro J. Muñiz appeared on the University at Albany’s Engagement Ring podcast to speak about APLU’s Innovation & Economic Prosperity University Designation.

APLU’s Alcione Frederick will present on engaging students in institutional transformation at the AAC&U conference on diversity, equity, and student success.

Andréa Rodriguez, Director of Urban Initiatives for USU at APLU, presents on building STEM Pathways between 2- and 4-year institutions at an AAAS Summit in early June.

Howard Gobstein discusses the MTE-Partnership on the panel: Launching Improvement Networks: A Framework for Getting Started at the 2nd Carnegie Foundation Summit on Improvement in Education March 3 in San Francisco, CA.

Wendy Fink presented as part of a panel at the March 25th STEM Council meeting of STEMconnector. The panel’s focus was “The STEM Food and Ag Council: Cultivating Talent to Solve a Global Challenge.”