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2021 SOSI Center Virtual Summer Institute

Categories: Professional Development, Faculty

Date: 8/1/2021

The SOSI Center is a newly awarded NSF initiative designed to enhance postsecondary STEM programming and advance the generation and dissemination of scholarship related to these endeavors. An inter-institutional collaboration between the University of Missouri, Understanding Interventions that Broaden Participation in Science (UI), and the University of Michigan, the center focuses on cultivating the cultural awareness and scholarly productivity of future and existing STEM training program leaders by providing venues for training and development related to critical, strengths-based theories and evidence-based practices. These ?concepts focus on ?facilitating underrepresented students’ success in STEM through mechanisms that center students’ identities, cultures, and experiences, in meaningful ways, within STEM programming, teaching, mentoring, and research.

Although there has been growth in recent years in the dissemination of evidence based practices related to STEM training, practitioners, often trained in the basic sciences, have found the need for training in the relevant social and behavioral sciences not only for implementation, but for the generation of scholarship in a translational context, useful for dissemination and adoption.

The 2021 SOSI Center Summer Institute titled: Translating Critical, Strengths-Based Conceptual Frameworks to STEM Programming & Design will focus on providing program leaders with training relevant to the understanding and implementation of strength based frameworks for STEM interventions as well as the production of scholarship generated from program outcomes.

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