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The Dean’S Racial Justice Curriculum Challenge, S Civjan, Erin Baker, Samantha Wojda, Promise Mchenga, Nick Tooker, Esha Uddin, Hannah Wharton, Sophia Chang, Lia Ciemny, Jacqueline Thornton, Wayne Burleson, Paula Rees Jan 2022

The Dean’S Racial Justice Curriculum Challenge, S Civjan, Erin Baker, Samantha Wojda, Promise Mchenga, Nick Tooker, Esha Uddin, Hannah Wharton, Sophia Chang, Lia Ciemny, Jacqueline Thornton, Wayne Burleson, Paula Rees

Publications

This Work in Progress paper will present the College of Engineering Dean’s Racial Justice Curriculum Challenge. This challenge tasks all faculty in the college to use their engineering problem-solving skills to develop creative ways to incorporate issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and racial justice in every class we teach. The challenge was inspired by our students, who requested a greater connection between the technical content of classes and real world issues, in particular the role engineers play in either fostering inclusive solutions or contributing to the propagation of inequities. The intent is to engage faculty in the development of new …


Disadvantaged Families Cannot Navigate The Quagmire Of College Choice Information, S. Kate Farmer Jan 2022

Disadvantaged Families Cannot Navigate The Quagmire Of College Choice Information, S. Kate Farmer

Reports and White Papers

This brief is one in a series aimed at providing higher education policymakers and advocates with an evidence base to address how to best serve students in light of the challenges facing higher education. This brief was authored by a University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate student in a dual Master of Higher Education & Administration (M.Ed.) and Master of Public Policy & Administration (MPPA) program as a course assignment for EDUC 674B: Higher Education Policy and was reviewed for accuracy by Professor Sade Bonilla.


Traditional Remediation Ends In Low Completion Of Remediation And College Degree!, Betul Iscan Jan 2022

Traditional Remediation Ends In Low Completion Of Remediation And College Degree!, Betul Iscan

Reports and White Papers

This brief is one in a series aimed at providing higher education policymakers and advocates with an evidence base to address how to best serve students in light of the challenges facing higher education. This brief was authored by a University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate student in the Five Colleges Center for World Languages under Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant program as a course assignment for EDUC 674B: Higher Education Policy and was reviewed for accuracy by Professor Sade Bonilla.


Holding Postsecondary Institutions Accountable: Performance Based Funding, S. Jeon Jan 2022

Holding Postsecondary Institutions Accountable: Performance Based Funding, S. Jeon

Reports and White Papers

This brief is one in a series aimed at providing higher education policymakers and advocates with an evidence base to address how to best serve students in light of the challenges facing higher education. This brief was authored by a University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate student in the Higher Education program as a course assignment for EDUC 674B: Higher Education Policy and was reviewed for accuracy by Professor Sade Bonilla.


Displaced Promises?: Examining The Impact Of Financial Aid Displacement, Sarah Haas Jan 2022

Displaced Promises?: Examining The Impact Of Financial Aid Displacement, Sarah Haas

Reports and White Papers

This brief is one in a series aimed at providing higher education policymakers and advocates with an evidence base to address how to best serve students in light of the challenges facing higher education. This brief was authored by a University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate student in the M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration program as a course assignment for EDUC 674B: Higher Education Policy and was reviewed for accuracy by Professor Sade Bonilla.


Florida Bright Futures Program: Felony Disenfranchisement In The Sunshine State, Sasha Smith Jan 2022

Florida Bright Futures Program: Felony Disenfranchisement In The Sunshine State, Sasha Smith

Reports and White Papers

This brief is one in a series aimed at providing higher education policymakers and advocates with an evidence base to address how to best serve students in light of the challenges facing higher education. This brief was authored by a University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate student in the dual M.Ed/MPPA program as a course assignment for EDUC 674B: Higher Education Policy and was reviewed for accuracy by Professor Sade Bonilla.


The Covid-19 Pandemic’S Effect On College Enrollment Rates, Cenee Enriquez Jan 2022

The Covid-19 Pandemic’S Effect On College Enrollment Rates, Cenee Enriquez

Reports and White Papers

This brief is one in a series aimed at providing higher education policymakers and advocates with an evidence base to address how to best serve students in light of the challenges facing higher education. This brief was authored by a University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate student in the Dual Degree Higher Education/Public Policy and Administration Master’s program as a course assignment for EDUC 674B: Higher Education Policy and was reviewed for accuracy by Professor Sade Bonilla.


Evidence-Based School Counseling: An Evolving Paradigm, Brett Zyromski, Carey Dimmitt Jan 2022

Evidence-Based School Counseling: An Evolving Paradigm, Brett Zyromski, Carey Dimmitt

EBSCC Conference Presentations

Evidence-based school counseling (EBSC) has too often been an approach defined by student-centered interventions delivered from a deficit perspective. What would happen if we stepped back and applied the same lens to the systems that are creating the barriers to student success in the first place? For example, the disproportionality of behavior referrals and suspensions of BIPOC populations is a data point that illustrates a system issue. How would the EBSC lens offer ways to deconstruct that system? Attendees will discuss and contribute to the evolution of the EBSC model and articulate approaches for using it to deconstruct racist educational …


Bookmark: The Magazine Of The Umass Amherst Libraries 2022, Carol Connare Jan 2022

Bookmark: The Magazine Of The Umass Amherst Libraries 2022, Carol Connare

Bookmark: The magazine of the UMass Amherst Libraries

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Plants, Pipettes And Pcr, Elizabeth Vierling Jan 2022

Plants, Pipettes And Pcr, Elizabeth Vierling

Science and Engineering Saturday Seminars

Plants are amazing organisms that provide us with food, building materials, the pleasure of gardens, as well as providing the foundation of critical world ecosystems. Although they may look like they are just stuck in one place and doing not more than growing, they have many, many complex ways in which they respond to the environment. The goal of this STEM Ed session will be to discuss ways that plants can respond to the environment with hands on exercises and exploration of possible classroom activities. Participants will engage in state-of-the art methods of testing plant DNA composition using the polymerase …


Spring 2022 Superhydrophobic Materials, T. Leo Liu Jan 2022

Spring 2022 Superhydrophobic Materials, T. Leo Liu

Science and Engineering Saturday Seminars

Many natural surfaces, such as lotus leaves and a water strider’s leg, have shown striking water repellency so that they remain clean and dry even in “dirty” habitats. Such water repellency is called superhydrophobicity, which has stimulated lots of science and engineering imagination for self-cleaning windows, never dirty clothes, drag-reduction swimming suits, etc. In this workshop, we will use superhydrophobicity as a model to guide an integrative teaching and learning experience through hands-on experiments, critical thinking, basic science, as well as a lecture on state-of-the-art research discoveries. The objectives of this workshop are to (1) stimulate student curiosity and imagination …


Spring 2022 Saturday Seminars Agenda, Shubha Tewari Jan 2022

Spring 2022 Saturday Seminars Agenda, Shubha Tewari

Science and Engineering Saturday Seminars

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Birds In An Ecological Web, Jeff Podos Jan 2022

Birds In An Ecological Web, Jeff Podos

Science and Engineering Saturday Seminars

One great way to learn about nature and biology is to study birds. There are many species of birds, both resident and migratory, and they all have their own habits, colors, songs, and ways of life. The popularity of birdwatching has skyrocketed in the US, especially during the pandemic. This seminar will describe one way to look at birds, and to learn about their ecology, evolution, and diversity. We start by focusing on birds’ feeding habits and food preferences. Many birds have to eat and forage constantly, in order to stay alive and to feed their offspring. From this starting …