Please endorse the STEPping into the Future White Paper

Endorse the STEPping into the future white Paper

I am a member of a team that was awarded an IUSE grant. I concur with the recommendations made in this white paper, particularly those relating to the common guidelines and IUSE. Our team of 7 faculty from 5 different STEM disciplines based our IUSE proposal on ideas that we were deeply committed to implementing in our classes. The common guidelines and our own lack of formal training in pure education research made us question whether our project would be a good fit. I am concerned that similar considerations will discourage others.

11 years ago Featured

Our STEP grants allowed the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences to increase its 5-year graduation/6-year continuation rates by 10 percentage points, providing the evidence to convinence the university to sustain the best practices identiied in the STEP grants. rates

Without sustainability, a project must be considered as provisional.

11 years ago Featured

Our STEP grant is why we now have a sustained and institutionally funded STEM Program

Well done summary of needs

Increasing the number of STEM graduates is most important and STEP like programs have produced exceptional improvement in both retention and recruiting.

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STEM workforce development is a national need, and the NSF STEP/IUSE program is critical for meeting this need.

I believe these priorities will not only help NSF continue to move the national needle in STEM education, but also maximize the impact of its prior investments in STEP, TUES, WIDER and CCLI.

11 years ago Featured

We recently had our final external/internal advisory board meeting and they were amazed at the student centered pedagogy we had developed and implemented. We have also disseminated a large number of results from our 5-year projects and the white paper is spot on with our findings.

11 years ago Featured

I worked for 7 years creating and implementing community building activities suchas a bridge program, freshmen class, and peer emtnroing society. The retention and graduation rates of those students was consistently 6-8% higher than their peers. I highly endorse these rrecommendations.

closing remarks on page 11 are excellent reminder to consider ALL aspects of this complex problem

I have worked extensively on a STEP project and endorse these recommendationa

These recommendations will apply to STEM programming across the board. Thank you!

NSF support of these initiatives is essential to providing the STEM workforce for the future in our country.

Continued support from NSF is essential for the seeds that were planted from STEP grants can bloom. It is crucial that STEP program gains not be lost.

I endorse this white paper.

Increases in engineering enrollment followed STEP best practices. These priorities will continue to support student success.

I strongly support this very sensible set of recommendations for UG STEM education support by EHR and DUE