Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership

ALT The GrantWise Workshop at the STEM Higher Education Conference is a 2-hour session tailored for faculty seeking extramural funding for STEM education. It aims to demystify the grant-seeking process by focusing on sponsor priorities, communication skills, relationship building, proposal management, and crafting competitive grant proposals. The first segment highlights the National Science Foundation's S-STEM program, which supports academically gifted low-income students in STEM at PUIs. In Part 2, participants can choose between the HBCU Roundtable, which discusses STEM education research, funding, collaborations, and professional development, or the S-STEM Office Hour, providing in-depth guidance on the S-STEM opportunity, idea generation, and application strategies.

ALT This presentation will feature ongoing mixed methods explanatory research related to exploring the role of HBCU STEM faculty beliefs and classroom culture on minoritized student achievement and persistence in STEM. Attendees will also be introduced to AAC&U’s newly re-designed STEM Inclusionary, a virtual portal established to collectively address higher education’s need for a culturally responsive dissemination platform for promulgating effective broadening participation practices. In this session, attendees will get an exclusive early preview of the STEM Inclusionary, learn about its unique design and functions, and explore how they can benefit from joining this vital community of broadening participation scholars, thought leaders, and practitioners.