Building Belonging in STEM

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Description of the Program

This program examines inequities in STEM through a cultural lens, challenging deficit-based narratives and exploring how the culture of STEM shapes student persistence and completion. Participants review research on the “great pushout,” analyze how racialization influences student experiences, and consider why inequities reflect systemic design rather than individual shortcomings. Finally, participants explore culturally responsive practices that build a learning environment that supports students’ belonging and persistence in STEM without leaving key identities at the door.

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6
hours
ASYNC
$700
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Calling all STEM tutors, mentors, & staff!

IDEAL FOR:
  • MESA program coordinators and staff
  • STEM embedded & peer tutors 
  • STEM student advisors 

Learning Outcomes

By completing the 6-hour program, you will be able to:

Develop intercultural competence as a STEM practitioners, by learning how to ‘see’ systems of cultural bias more clearly and where historically underrepresented students have experiences of cultural exclusion and lack belonging.

Apply multicontextual cultural frameworks and an asset-based mindset to counter the deficit narratives and create environments that all cultural frameworks can engage with and participate in.

Identify ways to use data to measure and analyze belonging as part of persistence and retention in a STEM program.

Plan to intentionally implement belonging practices into your work with students, in order to craft an environment that increases student retention across all social identities and closes gaps in belongingness for historically underrepresented students.

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