Read about how AAU universities are improving undergraduate STEM teaching and learning.
Initiative in the News
Advocating for Active Learning -- Insight into Diversity
A 'New Normal' in STEM Teaching? -- Inside Higher Ed
AAU Official Works to Change the Culture of STEM Teaching -- KU Center for Teaching Excellence Blog
Not Just Research -- Inside Higher Ed
Colleges Reinvent Classes to Keep More Students in Science -- New York Times
Teaching Professors to Become Better Teachers -- New York Times
Bold Initiative to Improve Undergraduate STEM Education -- OSTP Blog Post
Active Role in UNC Classes help Black and First Generation College Students (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
University of Pennsylvania students “SAIL” into math and science (University of Pennsylvania)
MSU Scholars Challenge Colleges to Reform STEM Learning (Michigan State University)
Sail Program to Focus on Improving Student Learning Techniques (The University of Arizona)
UA Undergraduate STEM Education Project List of UANews Articles (The University of Arizona)
Retooled UA Engineering Course Makes Grade (The University of Arizona)
Course Redesigns in Engineering Emphasize Student Participation (The University of Arizona)
Press Releases
AAU to Launch STEM Department Demonstration Projects on Teaching Evaluation
AAU Awards Grants to a Second Cohort of 12 Universities to Improve Undergraduate STEM Education
AAU Awards Grants to 12 Universities to Improve Undergraduate STEM Education
AAU Releases Five-Year Status Report on Undergraduate STEM Initiative
AAU and RCSA Cottrell Scholars Call for Valuing Undergraduate Teaching Innovations and Improvements
AAU Releases Report on Essential Questions and Data Sources on Undergraduate STEM Education
AAU Awards Grants to Twelve Universities to Improve Undergraduate STEM Education
AAU & RCSA Publish Collection of Case Studies on Improving Undergraduate STEM Education
AAU Extends Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative, Announces New NSF Grant
AAU Selects Eight Campus Project Sites for Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative
Grant from NSF Boosts AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative
Major Grant from Helmsley Charitable Trust Boosts AAU STEM Education Initiative
Program to train graduate TAs wins AAU support (Cornell University)
MIT receives grant from Association of American Universities for undergraduate STEM education
Big Plans for Big Classes (McGill University)
New Grant, Publication Reinforce Work to Transform STEM Education (The University of Texas at Austin)
UCI Receives STEM Grant from the AAU and Northrop Grumman Foundation
KU receives grant as part of national STEM initiative
This New UVA Program will Support STEM Instructors of Large Classes
AAU STEM Education Grant Enables a Novel Approach to Math at Yale
UCLA to Enhance Undergraduate STEM Education
The Inclusive Caltech Core (IC2) Project
Brown Is a Project Site for AAU STEM Effort
MSU Part of a National Effort to Improve Science, Math Education
UA One of Only Eight Institutions Selected for Nationwide STEM Initiative
UC Davis Awarded $500,000 to Improve STEM Teaching
UNC Tapped for National AAU Project to Transform STEM Education
CU-Boulder Selected to Be One of Eight Sites for National STEM Education Initiative
Penn to Implement AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative
AAU Selects Washington University in St. Louis As One of Eight Project Sites