{"id":37981,"date":"2021-03-17t08:00:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-17t13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/?p=37981"},"modified":"2021-03-02t16:02:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02t21:02:15","slug":"upcoming-meeting-around-teaching-and-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2021\/03\/upcoming-meeting-around-teaching-and-race\/","title":{"rendered":"upcoming meeting around teaching and race"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>on april 2nd<\/sup>, from 12:30pm to 2:00pm<\/strong>, at\u00a0<\/span>this link<\/a>, we will focus our attention on what faculty can do to close race (and other) performance and persistence gaps across the disciplines.\u00a0 throughout 2020-21, a group of stem faculty have met to discuss their concerns with disparities that exist between underrepresented and well-represented groups of undergraduate students, particularly disparities of persistence in stem majors. in their discussions they have concentrated on insights from their own experience and from the book,\u00a0talking about leaving revisited<\/a><\/i>, a five-year study that explores the causes of field-switching among stem majors and the factors that enable persistence to graduation. members of this faculty group including william robinson<\/strong> (vice provost for academic advancement and executive director of the provost\u2019s office for inclusive excellence, and vu school of engineering), kathy friedman<\/strong> (biological sciences), adriane seiffert<\/strong> (psychology), and thomas clements<\/strong> (biological sciences) will join the teaching and race learning community to share what they have learned and discuss reforms to teaching practices that may reduce performance and persistence disparities across the disciplines.<\/span><\/p>\n

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