Levers for Change 2023
AAAS IUSE
Levers for Change
“The accessibility and quality of STEM education have never been more important to the future of the country. As noted during the workshop, a high-quality, inclusive undergraduate STEM education can have transformative impacts on the lives of individuals and their families, as well as on our communities, our democracy in the United States and our world. The 2023 workshop participants made it clear that instructors of all STEM disciplines should view their teaching as both a national imperative and an authentic calling. While strong progress in STEM education has occurred through a focus on discipline-based education research, full-scale adoption of these strategies and the systems change needed to support that implementation have often been limited to willing instructors and not implemented completely by all STEM departments. Postsecondary institutions and the STEM community—especially disciplinary societies, employers, and state and federal government—must support a reimagining, redesign and evolution of both STEM education and the structures that undergird and surround it. Our collective future depends on it.”
“[D]iversity, equity and inclusion as a mandate for all involved, from campus
administrators and department heads to STEM instructors and their students.”