Mission statement
The Center for Broadening Participation in STEM (CBPSTEM) at Arizona State University is a research organization focused on advancing educational strategies in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). CBPSTEM provides capacity-building services and professional development for faculty in support of student-centered practices and experiential learning opportunities leading students to STEM workforce readiness. The Center examines the impact of these efforts on outcomes for STEM faculty, staff, and students.
Strategic vision
CBPSTEM will continue to strengthen its role in advancing student success in STEM, and breaking barriers to design a robust and skilled STEM workforce.
CBPSTEM Research and Development Lab
Purpose
Design, write and disseminate evidence-based STEM education and workforce research.
- Design
rigorous research projects that investigate, inform and strengthen practices to broaden participation in STEM. - Write
scholarly manuscripts, reports and practitioner resources. - Disseminate
research findings, tools, frameworks through conferences, workshops, communities of practice, digital tools and peer-reviewed publications to reach STEM faculty, staff, administrators and policy interest holders.
CBPSTEM Research and Development Lab
Inquiry areas
The following inquiry areas are research topics our center is interested in:
- Broadening participation in STEM
- Student-centered experential learning (ExL)
- Faculty digital literacy
- Institutional capacity-bullding
- STEM identity and communities of practice
Post Grant Sustainability Study
Research Study Project Overview: This is an exploratory case study of HSIs that participated in the ALRISE Alliance and how their STEM workforce investments were impacted by federal funding terminations, in particular regarding their STEM Teams, STEM Plans, and SCI Experiential Learning practices and courses that were in development. The mixed method case study (surveys, interviews, secondary data analysis) will be an in-depth analysis of three to five Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) to learn how and in what ways the terminated federal grants impacted these HSIs, structurally, economically and socially. Findings from this work will inform and identify ways to restructure STEM units and courses that promote sustainable experiential learning in the classroom. NSF#2120021
