Interested in increasing accessibility and diversity of your STEM programs? Check this opportunity!

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Council on Undergraduate Research
Broadening Participation Institute (BPI)
Applications due: November 21, 2016
January 13-15, 2017, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL

Interested in increasing accessibility and diversity of your STEM programs? We invite you to apply to send a team to the Council of Undergraduate Research (CUR) institute aimed at broadening participation and increasing access to and diversity in STEM programs. The CUR Broadening Participation Institute (BPI) is designed for faculty and administrators to develop (or enhance) their knowledge, skills, and competencies in increasing access, fostering diversity, and creating an inclusive environment for all students. An expressed goal of the institute is for participating institutional teams of faculty and administrators to develop authentic and customized action plans to implement on their home campuses.

CUR BPI applications are due by November 21, 2016.

For more information concerning the institute, and to complete an application, please
visit:
http://www.cur.org/conferences_and_events/institutes/broadening_participation_inst itute/ 

Three key themes will weave throughout the institute—preparation, climate, and mentorship. Each day will include lectures, case studies, and break-out sessions—facilitated by leaders in the field, including higher education professionals and university faculty and administrators—that are designed to promote networking and collaboration. The BPI discussions will inform and prompt dialogue about current solutions to broadening participation of underrepresented students and are designed to stimulate new creative solutions. Institute participants will gain a notebook of resources and personal connections that will help them increase participation in diverse student populations.

Examples of plans that teams have developed at past institutes include:

  • using work study funds to support first-year and sophomore students in undergraduate research;

  • collaborating with admissions to develop (and attend) recruiting events in inner cities;

  • developing STEM curricula to be culturally sensitive; and

  • facilitating a series of mentoring workshops for faculty (and graduate students) about

    effective mentoring strategies for all, making sure issues faced by underrepresented minorities receive direct attention 

Although the NSF grant (BIO-IOS-12-49925) to support the development of the institute originally targeted students in the life sciences disciplines, faculty and administrative representatives from a variety of STEM fields are encouraged to attend the CUR BPI.

The institute will begin Friday evening at 5:00 pm on January 13 and conclude at noon on Sunday, January 15. It will be held at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, FL. Lakeland is about an hour’s drive from either Orlando International Airport or Tampa International Airport.

This professional development workshop is based upon work funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. BIO-IOS-12-49925. The Council on Undergraduate Research acknowledges and is grateful to the National Science Foundation for its support. 

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