Call for Poster Abstracts for the NSEC 2017 National Conference

The Network of STEM Education Centers (NSEC) is now seeking proposals for presentations for the NSEC 2017 National Conference, June 23-24, 2017, at the Hotel Monteleone in New Orleans. Registration is coming soon.This year’s conference will focus on centers engaged specifically in improving undergraduate STEM education, and/or involved in STEM teacher preparation and connection of the undergraduate experience with community efforts and broader impacts in STEM. The conference is open to representatives from campus STEM Education Centers or Centers for Teaching and Learning that have a STEM agenda, or those who work closely with these centers. We also invite faculty and administrators engaged in improving STEM teaching and teacher preparation from APLU institutions.

Poster abstracts must be submitted by 11:59 pm ET on Monday, May 5, 2017 for inclusion in the Program Guide.

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* 1. Title of the Poster

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* 2. Contact information for proposal

Name

Title

Institution/Organization

Department/Unit/Center

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* 3. Lead Presenter

Name

Title

Institution/Organization

Department/Unit/Center

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* 4. Additional Presenter

Name

Title

Institution/Organization

Department/Unit/Center

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* 5. Additional authors.
Please list name, title, institution of authors who are not planning to attend the meeting.

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* 6. What is your session about? [Choose up to 3]

Administration of a center: budgeting, funding, management, planning, assessment, staff/faculty recruitment and retention, communications, and other matters related to running a center

Program Assessment: Evaluating programs run by the center, assessing the center’s suite of activities, assessing student learning, using assessment to drive change

Assessment of Learning: Evaluating student learning

Broadening participation: Programs, practices, policies, theories, or research related to expanding access to and success in STEM education for students from underrepresented groups.

Faculty Professional Development: Programs, practices, policies, theories, or research related to faculty development. How is your center or program effectively engaging faculty to improve STEM undergraduate education?

Institutional change: Programs, practices, policies, theories, or research that lead to institution-wide improvement of undergraduate STEM education.

NSEC professional development: Programs, practices, policies, theories, or research related to the professional development of NSEC members.

Center portfolio: Ways that a center works to bridge institutional research, educational mission, and/or service/engagement mission

Retention and Success: Programs, practices, policies, theories, or research related to improving retention and success of undergraduate students.

Establishing a center: Programs, practices, policies, theories, or research related to starting and growing a center

Sustainability: ways to sustain centers, programs, or practices

Research (DBER, organizational change, SOTL): Programs, practices, policies, theories, or research related to discipline-based education research, organizational change, or SOTL.

Technology: Programs, practices, policies, theories, or research related to using technology to support center activities.

Partnerships Beyond the University: Programs, practices, policies, theories, or research related to partnering with K-12 schools, 2 and 4-year colleges and universities, state networks, and/or industry to improve undergraduate STEM education including teacher preparation.

Engaging administrators: Programs and practices to engage senior university leadership for the improvement of undergraduate STEM education.

Showcasing your center: Marketing materials, programs, and practices that are effective in telling your center’s story, and increasing awareness of center contribution.

Other (please specify)

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* 7. Abstract (for Concurrent Sessions, Workshops, Roundtables, Significant Interest Groups, and Posters)
Please include a 150-word abstract to be included in the program if the proposal is accepted.

Question Title

* 1. Title of the Poster

Question Title

* 2. Contact information for proposal

Question Title

* 3. Lead Presenter

Question Title

* 4. Additional Presenter

Question Title

* 5. Additional authors.Please list name, title, institution of authors who are not planning to attend the meeting.

Question Title

* 6. What is your session about? [Choose up to 3]

Question Title

* 7. Abstract (for Concurrent Sessions, Workshops, Roundtables, Significant Interest Groups, and Posters)Please include a 150-word abstract to be included in the program if the proposal is accepted.

* 5. Additional authors.
Please list name, title, institution of authors who are not planning to attend the meeting.

* 7. Abstract (for Concurrent Sessions, Workshops, Roundtables, Significant Interest Groups, and Posters)
Please include a 150-word abstract to be included in the program if the proposal is accepted.