December 16, 2013 Kacy Redd, Director, Science and Mathematics Education Policy, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities Jennifer Presley, Kacy Redd, Lizanne DeStefano, Charles Coble, and Howard Gobstein APLU’s Science & Mathematics Teacher Imperative

2 What is APLU?

Overview Ingredients for successful collaborations and reforms – case studies from 5 campuses How to engage senior university leadership What you can do back home – Build relationships with colleagues and university leadership – Find synergistic efforts – especially through your higher education association 3

Theory of Action

Project Design

Three Strategies for Successful Collaborations

1. Value other’s expertise 2. Create formal structures that reach across the aisle

3. Find the Boundary Spanners

Ways Institutions Can Foster Undergraduate STEM Education Transformation

Methods for Institutional Final Reports Two Sources of Data Final Reports Open-ended survey. 23 of the remaining 25 institutions returned the survey. Identified three levels of change (program improvement, program restructuring, and campus-wide). Binned outcomes based on level of change. Engagement with APLU Tracked attendance at meetings over the four years of the project. Estimated the hours required to participate in each event and summed across institutions. Calculated the total time spent, average time spent by participant, and total number of participants for each institution.

Outcomes and Findings from 23 institutions

Build relationships with colleagues and senior university leaders for campus- wide change.

Institutions with more participants show more change

Higher education associations can galvanize university leadership.

Engaging University Leaders “SMTI provided a pathway for administrators to participate in the education transformation process on campus, allowed them to achieve a broader perspective of the national education landscape, learn about the reform practices in place in other institutions, and establish the institutions prominence on a national level. Through engaging with other SMTI institutions and learning about their approaches, they deepened their understanding and were more able to engage other faculty and administrators inside the institution as well as those external to the institution. They build stronger collaborations with faculty and, together, could speak with one coherent voice. This emboldened them to embrace opportunities to change institution practices to support faculty and students.”

Institutional leaders will engage when…

Action steps Build relationships with colleagues and leadership Find synergistic efforts that can bring your project more visibility. – AAU’s stem undergraduate initiative – APLU’s SMTI/MTEP – AAC&U’s Pkal – AASCU’s CCSS-M work – 100kin10 22

Thank You! Jennifer Presley Lizanne DeStefano Charles Coble Howard Gobstein Katherine Hazelrigg 25 Teams and Team Leaders

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Successful collaborations Outcomes and level of change Most Successful OutcomesLevel of Change Number of Institutions Creation/ increased support of STEM ed centerCampus-wide4* Became a UTeach replication siteCampus-wide2 Campus-wide STEM Education TaskforceCampus-wide1 Joint governance of teacher preparationCampus-wide1 Institutionalization (and national spread) of LAsCampus-wide1 University-wide STEM education council for teacher preparation Campus-wide1 Became a 4+1 year programProgram Restructuring1 Became a 4 year programProgram Restructuring1 New masters in STEM educationProgram Restructuring1 Tracking teachers for continuous improvementProgram Restructuring1 New science and education minorProgram Restructuring1 New 4 year degree for secondary science teachers in discipline Program Restructuring1 New recruitment strategyProgram Improvement4 Increased Teacher Enrollment/ Production Program Improvement2 Increased external funding (NSF grant)Program Improvement1 *One institution started a STEM education center and became a UTeach site and is double counted

What were the most helpful things APLU did to aid campus activities Highest Level of Change Program- improvement Program- restructuring Campus- wide Number of institutions769 Organized conferences/support community of learners 543 Raised the profile of teacher prep on campus or nationally 435 Galvanized university leadership005 University Leadership Matters