BUILDING COMMUNITIES OF

STAKEHOLDERS FOR STEM RESEARCH

AND EDUCATIONORAU Annual Meeting -- March 22,

2012Elizabeth S. Boylan

Program DirectorSTEM Higher Education

STEM HIGHER EDUCATION

To improve the quality and increase the diversity

of higher education in STEM

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Education of Individuals from

Underrepresented Groups• Minority Ph.D. Scholarship Program

• Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership

• Projects supporting individuals from underrepresented groups

Student Performance & Retention: Institutional Analysis and

Interventions• STEM student recruitment & retention studies

• The science of learning science• Faculty/academic leader development to support achievement and retention of students from all groups

Professional Advancement of Individuals from

Underrepresented Groups• Professional advancement of individuals from underrepresented groups who are in faculty and academic leadership positions

Interactions and

Synergies

Sloan’s STEM Higher Education Program

3/22/12

Presented by Lynne Molter, AAAS, February 18, 2012

Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Student Migration in and out of STEM Fields

CUSTEMSConsortium for Undergraduate STEM

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CUSTEMS Goals• Develop appropriate and effective ways to

analyze data for a wide range of institutions

• Identify patterns of and longitudinal changes in retention, migration, and attrition

• Establish a self-sustaining group of institutions who are committed to adapting their strategies for successful educational outcomes for STEM students

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Data Analysis• Office of Educational Assessment at

the University of Washington --performs standardized analyses, including descriptive tables, charts, and graphs

• Office of Institutional Research at Swarthmore --performs decision tree and cluster analyses, and uses other visualization techniques; it also responds to specialized requests from participants

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CUSTEMS Participants

(About 40 institutions)• Public universities, including Thurgood

Marshall College Fund members

• Private universities

• Liberal arts colleges

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Course, Grade, and GPA Data

• Grade in gateway course vs. retention

• Graduation GPA vs. retentiono By Majoro Overall

• Disaggregated by discipline; gender; under-represented minority, first generation, socioeconomic status, etc.

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Sample 1 Student Migration Patterns Based on Grade

in Gateway Course by STEM Discipline and Gender

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Elizabeth S. Boylan

THE CENSUS OF MARINE LIFE Program director: Jesse Ausubel

Decade-long (2000-2010) program to assess and explain the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine life

>2700 scientists, >80 countries, >540 field expeditions

Approximately $80 million from Sloan toward total project costs of $650 million (12%)

Expansion of the Encyclopedia of Life:>100,000 marine species now have EOL

pages Products:

3100 publications, ~250 PhD theses, books, films, artwork

Library of “DNA Barcodes” for species identification -- about 35,000 marine species barcoded to date

Barcodes Showed Mislabelings as More Expensive Fish“Red Snapper” also identified via DNA bar-coding as:

Slender Pinjalo (SE Asia) and Acadian Redfish (North Atlantic)

“Red Snapper” DNA ID: Nile PerchRed Snapper

to scale

Range map: FishBase Range map: FishBase

FishBase: D Flescher FishBase: John Casselman

Source: Stoeckle & Strauss

Red Snapper “Red Snapper” DNA ID -- Nile perch

DNA Learning CenterCold Spring Harbor

Laboratory

www.urbanbarcodeproject.org

ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION

MISSION AND GOALS

To support original research and educationrelated to STEM fields, economic performance,

and the quality of American lifeThrough--community building

--data storage and accessibility--focus on goals and metrics of success

--improved public understanding of science and technology

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