Student Success Initiatives @ CSU: Closing Opportunity Gaps
Colorado State University promotes a definition of student success that embraces all dimensions of a student’s personal development as they progress through and complete their college experience. To achieve this holistic developmental approach, CSU has several student success initiatives within colleges and units across campus. In this four-part series entitled, “Student Success Initiatives @ CSU“,...
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Forming Broader Impacts Partnerships
Whether you are a researcher, research administrator, evaluator, or in a research development office, it is important to know how universities can effectively partner with entities outside of campus. In this post, we will discuss how to form partnerships for use in the broader impacts section of a National Science Foundation (NSF) proposal. As mentioned...
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Evaluating NSF Broader Impacts Activities
As mentioned in our first post in the Broadening Participation and Broader Impacts blog series, entitled “A History of Broader Impacts Criterion Within the National Science Foundation”, we detailed the creation of an explicit broader impacts criterion in the merit review process of the National Science Foundation (NSF) proposals. In the 2021 Proposal & Award...
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Building searchable community databases with WordPress
This panel discussed how to best use WordPress to create searchable databases that provide value to your institution and community and take your website from a brochure site to an interactive tool. Panelists discussed four different WordPress-powered databases created by the Colorado State University STEM Center and Colorado-Wyoming Alliance for Minority Participation, which allow students,...
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Free Agricultural Educational Resource Gets You Growing and Giving Back
Coloradoans across the state are being encouraged to participate in Colorado State University Extension’s gardening initiative Grow & Give, a modern victory garden project designed for people to grow vegetable gardens and plant extra to share with local food banks and community members in need. Victory gardens were planted on public and private land during...
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Evaluating Broadening Participation in Broader Impacts Activities
(This is post 5 of 5 in the Broadening Participation and Broader Impacts Series) The terms broadening participation and broader impacts have been used extensively in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, especially within STEM funding solicitations and proposals. Although used interchangeably at times, these two terms have their own unique history and definitions....
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Ruoh-Nan Yan Awarded USDA Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Ruoh-Nan (Terry) Yan, Associate Professor in the department of Design and Merchandising, and her team for receiving a $466,052 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture for the Higher Education Challenge (HEC) Grants Program. The grant impacts student awareness of and appreciation for the ways that small business can maintain fiber,...
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Intro to Evaluation: What is it?
Here at the CSU STEM Center, we have been successfully creating and carrying out evaluation plans for over a decade. Our new series, Intro to Evaluation, sheds some light on what we do as evaluators. Have you heard something about evaluation but don’t know what it is? Do you need to evaluate your program and...
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Create or Join a Citizen Science Project With CitSci.org
Do you have a burning scientific question that you want to help answer? Does your community have an issue that they want to explore? Are you a teacher and/or parent hoping to engage students in the world of scientific discovery? CitSci.org, a free online platform that provides tools and resources for anyone interested in creating...
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Incorporating Broadening Participation Into Broader Impacts
(This is post 4 of 5 in the Broadening Participation and Broader Impacts Series) The terms broadening participation and broader impacts have been used extensively in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, especially within STEM funding solicitations and proposals. Although used interchangeably at times, these two terms have their own unique history and definitions....
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