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Vanderbilt and Fisk Commit to Affiliate Together as Full Institutional Members of CIRTL

Submitted by cheethao.cirtl on Tue, 08/09/2011 - 4:30pm

Vanderbilt University has been an active and committed participant in the CIRTL Network since 2006.  One of Vanderbilt’s successful initiatives has been the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program, a collaboration between STEM faculty at Vanderbilt and Fisk University, a Historically Black University in Nashville.  The Bridge Program is being developed as a model for significantly broadening the participation of women and underrepresented minorities attaining the PhD in the physical sciences Read More »

Peer Collaborative: Engineering Education Workshop

Submitted by cheethao.cirtl on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 11:36am

On August 11-12, 2011 in Athens, GA, the Peer Collaborative National Network will be hosting a workshop to create peer networks among tenure track or recently tenured faculty who are pursuing careers in engineering education research. Because many faculty who do research in engineering education are hired in departments where all or most of the faculty pursue discipline-specific engineering research, engineering education research faculty face several challenges in long-term career success. Read More »

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