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Rustin Webster; Matthew Turner; Brittany Newell

ProceedingsKoch, A. K. (2017). It's About the Gateway Courses: Defining and Contextualizing the Issue. New Directions for Higher Education 2017(180), 11-17. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/he.20257Koch, A. K. (2018). Big Inequity in Small Things: Toward an End to a Tyranny of Practice. The National Teaching & Learning Forum 27(6), 1-5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ntlf.30169McGowan, S., Felten, P., Caulkins, J., & Artze-Vega, I. (2017). Fostering Evidence-Informed Teaching in Crucial Classes: Faculty Development in Gateway Courses. New Directions for Higher Education 2017(180), 53-62. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/he.20261Terenzini, P. T., Cabrera, A. F., Colbeck, C. L., Parente, J. M., & Bjorklund, S. A. (2001

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Tyler J. Smith

the mostimportant in a given curriculum, the forward-thinking educator, not trapped in their academic silos,is likely to embrace an interdisciplinary mindset. This can be facilitated through aninterdisciplinary degree program specifically designed to allow students to study in multipledisciplines (perhaps across colleges) and by faculty that run those interdisciplinary classes, as wellas by conducting research with colleagues in different disciplines.The National Science Foundation defines convergence as the “deep integration of knowledge,techniques, and expertise from multiple fields to form new and expanded frameworks foraddressing scientific and societal challenges and opportunities.” (National Science Foundation).5Though not new, the idea

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Tom Lucas

large-scale collaboration toaddress these challenges. However, issues of trust persist between the scientific community andthe general public. In this article, we show that a regional Science Center can be an effectivefacilitator of interaction between scientists and the general adult public by analyzing theexperiences of content experts presenting demonstrations at an adult-oriented event series. Thispreliminary study found that adult audiences are excited to interact with live demonstrations andinformally engage with experts from various disciplines to obtain new knowledge. The data showsthat a Science Center hosted event is an effective way to curate experts and stimulate “just-in-time” learning by demonstrating concepts with a generally

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Hsinju Chen; Mayura Kulkarni; Alyssa Huang; Mei-Yun Lin; Roland D. Cusick; Holly M. Golecki

undergraduate students are also more likely to haveconcerns on their grades (32.3%) being a factor in graduate school applications thancisgender men (22.4%). The news sources of campus events and research opportunities alsodiffer among genders. While the Internet is the main source for both cisgender men(31.0%) and cisgender women (32.3%), 20.7% of cisgender men respondents receiveinformation from graduate students they know as opposed to only 6.5% of cisgenderwomen. Faculty members are not a major source for any gender.This survey analysis aims to provide data to create a framework for improving themotivations of students of minority genders to pursue a graduate degree in the same field.Based on our analysis, we offer suggestions that may help make

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Sinan Onal

potential risks and developing strategies andpolicies to ensure ChatGPT is used as a supplement, not a replacement, for traditional teaching methods.Keywords“ChatGPT”, “engineering education”, “teaching strategies”, “technology in engineering education”,“faculty paper”1. Introduction The use of online and digital learning platforms has become increasingly prevalent in highereducation to increase access and flexibility for students [2]. This has led to the development of new toolsand technologies, such as AI-powered chatbots and virtual reality simulations, which can be used toenhance teaching and learning in a number of ways, including by providing personalized learningmaterials, interactive exercises and assessments, and instant feedback and

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Joey Reyes; Monica M. McGill

thatidentified gender composition being female. This process aligns with participant demographicsfound in an earlier study [25][ANON].Bianchini et al. considers three key areas with respect to science education research: • Researchers organizing and sharing their work in ways that align with the same theories of teaching and learning that we promote and study, • Researchers’ framing and research methods that more directly address issues of power, voice, and even impact and • Researchers’ ability to impact funding, evaluation and policy that is equity-centered [6].Their position is that in order to move the ”equity agenda” forward, the landscape of research,practice and policy need to shift to all be equity-focused. Although these