Participation in the STEM PUSH Network will support the continuous improvement of your programming while creating a mechanism to benefit your students’ postsecondary pathways.
Local and regional STEM ecosystems will serve an important role in this work by identifying additional PCSPs in their urban area and connecting PCSPs involved in the STEM PUSH Network with equity-focused higher education institutions, educational organizations, and corporations committed to broadening the participation of underrepresented groups.
Local and regional STEM ecosystems can also provide opportunities for STEM PUSH Network participants to share their learning with the entire local or regional ecosystem. As the accreditation process develops, local and regional ecosystems will help to brand the process with higher education institutions to create market demand for both PCSP participation and institutionalization in admissions.
We watched the documentary Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal. While there's a spotlight on this heinous & illegal scheme, it overlooked many of the real “scandals” around college admissions that are legal & less dramatic. More here: http://ow.ly/YLG950F4LYb
Our Network members are discussing the @nytimes opinion piece "When I Applied to College, I Didn’t Want to ‘Sell My Pain’" & how it can relate to students' STEM identity & sense of belonging. Let us know your thoughts on this & college admissions essays! http://ow.ly/bCcB50F38r4
One intervention our Networked Improvement Community members are testing is a discussion routine that supports program staff engaging with a podcast episode highlighting racism in STEM. Listen along with us to the Radiolab podcast, The Liberation of RNA! http://ow.ly/mzu850ESEyS
This NSF INCLUDES Alliance is funded by NSF Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES), a comprehensive national initiative to enhance U.S. leadership in discoveries and innovations by focusing on diversity, inclusion and broadening participation in STEM at scale. It is also co-funded by the NSF Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program and the Advancing Informal STEM Learning Program (AISL).
