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1. Education Behind Bars: The Co-Production of Knowledge by Inmates and University Students

   Entry #396

   16 Apr 2016

   9:31 pm

   Michael Canning

   99 comments

   In the arena of diversity and equity, people that seem to receive scant attention are those behind bars. The prisoner population is a marginal if not invisible one. Their needs are many; among them is the need for education, to help them reenter life outside prison with greater opportunity. But...

2. The Latent Challenges Concerning Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the STEM Classroom: Revelations from a Faculty Study

   Entry #385

   29 Feb 2016

   7:11 pm

   Michael Canning

   92 comments

   On February 12, 2016, Dr. Alford A. Young, Jr. spoke to a group of Purdue faculty, staff, and students on “The Latent Challenges Concerning Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the STEM Classroom: Revelations from a Faculty Study.” Dr. Young is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Chair of...

3. Will 2016 be the year Higher Education takes the Leap?

   Entry #382

   24 Feb 2016

   6:12 pm

   Fatma Mili

   110 comments

   How would I like to see higher education evolve in 2016? Well, wishing, planning, and executing in quiescent calm waters under blue skies is a qualitatively different activity from wishing, planning, and executing in agitated waters under stormy skies. The former has a leisurely quality with...

4. The Consciousness that Equitable Teaching Requires in STEM Classrooms

   Entry #375

   05 Feb 2016

   2:43 pm

   Ann Bessenbacher

   45 comments

   Dr. Dorinda Carter Andrews talk at Purdue DLRC on Friday, January 29, 2016 Posted by Mike Canning   Key takeaways Society’s depictions of a scientist and of an engineer are too narrow. Help students to reach far beyond these depictions. Build students’ self-concept and...

5. Towards a Wholehearted Education

   Entry #371

   22 Jan 2016

   9:50 am

   Fatma Mili

   37 comments

   Late in December International Innovation published the following interview and article about the work we are doing at the TransSTEM center. The feature is included here and can also be found at http://www.internationalinnovation.com/towards-wholehearted-education/ and is also included...

6. Promoting competency based education through trade-off thinking

   Entry #369

   14 Jan 2016

   5:14 pm

   Sorin Adam Matei

   41 comments

   Teaching creative and critical thinking by contingent evaluation of implicit choices made through technological communication infrastructures   We live in a world of things. Those who make the things define the way we live our lives.  Their decisions impact not only our trivial needs,...