CIRTL Forum 2005
About the 2005 Forum
CIRTL’s 2005 national Forum, Addressing the Student Learning Experience: Achieving Diversity in STEM Disciplines, focused on diversity, with an emphasis on how to improve the STEM classroom experience for women and underrepresented minority students. While many resources exist that “wrap around” and support underrepresented students, these programs do not, by design, directly impact classroom experiences. We suggested that inclusive learning environments, both in and out of the classroom, benefit not only underrepresented students, but all students.
The spring 2005 Forum built upon the 2003 CIRTL Forum that brought together over 200 deans, provosts, faculty members, department chairs and graduate students to Madison to define the present landscape of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduate training in teaching and learning at research universities across the nation, and to build connections among these STEM graduate programs.
The spring 2005 Forum built upon the 2003 CIRTL Forum that brought together over 200 deans, provosts, faculty members, department chairs and graduate students to Madison to define the present landscape of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduate training in teaching and learning at research universities across the nation, and to build connections among these STEM graduate programs.
Forum 2005 Program
Goals
- To provide tools, resources and strategies with which faculty, teaching staff, and future faculty could substantively and directly improve the student learning experience, with a particular focus on women and underrepresented minorities.
- To highlight the work of our national network of Diversity Scholars and the products of the CIRTL Diversity Institute.
- To showcase programs at research universities throughout the nation whose goal is to improve the retention of women and underrepresented minorities in STEM disciplines.
- To build connections that support inclusive STEM learning environments at research universities across the nation.
Posters & Abstracts
The 2005 Forum showcased over twenty posters from STEM faculty, graduate students, and staff.
View 2005 Forum posters and abstracts
Panel Presentations
View the Panel Presentations from the 2005 Forum. Three panels gave presentations about Defining the STEM Landiscape, The Graduate Student Experience, and Promoting Undergraduate Student Success.
Resources
Presentations
These presentations are drawn from the 2005 forum panel sessions. Topics include "Defining the STEM Landscape," "The Graduate Student Experience," and "Promoting Undergraduate Student Success."
Participating Universities and Institutions
Participants from 58 research universities and colleges attended the 2005 Forum.
View list of participating institutions
View list of participating institutions
Organizing Committee
Judith Burstyn
Diversity Institute Lead Scholar
CIRTL Diversity Team Leader
Kitch Barnicle
CIRTL Project Manager
Aaron Brower
CIRTL Associate Director
Alberto Cabrera
CIRTL Diversity Team Leader
Chris Carlson-Dakes
Associate Director CIRTL Learning Community
Mary Fish
CIRTL Administrative Assistant
Sherrill L. Sellers
CIRTL Diversity Team Leader
Heidi Williamson
CIRTL Technical Assistant
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