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Session Description

Free ticketed event
Achieving sustainable efforts to holistically support and engage students in technology and engineering disciplines requires systemic organizational change. This workshop invites faculty, staff, and administrators at 2-year colleges to explore and apply evidence-based practices utilized in NCWIT’s Higher Ed Learning Circles (LCs).

Grounded in empirical organizational change theories (e.g., Kezar, 2018; Kotter, 2014), this workshop focuses on NCWIT’s work with 2-year undergraduate technology and engineering programs to move beyond superficial interventions and address deep-seated institutional dynamics in undergraduate technology and engineering programs to bring about transformative, student-centered change. The workshop facilitator will share how the LC process guides departments through a transformative journey utilizing collaborative, evidence-based tools.

Participants will gain insight and hands-on experience into actionable strategies and practices that support a structured, evidence-based process for mapping, implementing, and assessing sustainable systemic transformation efforts within their home departments.
They will gain experience utilizing collaborative tools and leave with knowledge on how to access these tools and other free, publicly available evidence-based resources to ensure all students thrive.

Speaker

1. Dr. Jamie Lee Huber Ward

   WEPAN, Inc.

   Jamie Huber Ward is a social scientist and Associate Director of Higher Ed for NCWIT at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research focuses on issues related to organizational change in higher education; collaborative pedagogical practices; curriculum reform; and post-secondary student experiences. In her role, Jamie works with the Higher Ed team to implement and analyze research projects designed to enhance all students’ success and sense of belonging post-secondary computing programs. This includes working with faculty and staff from a variety of collegiate computing programs to facilitate their local implementation of evidence-based recruitment and retention strategies and translating these programs successes into resources accessible to post-secondary computing programs on a nationwide scale. She also engages in project management and strategic planning efforts for the NCWIT Higher Ed team.