Stemprof: Advancing College STEM Teaching Readiness

Civil rights complaints against initiatives for women in male-dominated STEM fields are piling up. But it’s not clear that such programs are actually illegal.

Is closing the STEM gender gap anti-male discrimination?

Too many students make a rash decision to leave graduate study during their first semester. (from Chronicle of Higher Ed -- subscription required)

Advice | Why You Shouldn’t Quit Your New Doctoral Program (Yet) Too many students make a rash decision to leave graduate study during their first semester.

A recent report on two studies adds to a growing volume of research concluding that altering the structure of certain courses can help close equity gaps.

Grade gaps reflect course problems, not student shortcomings

It’s challenging to balance it with academic commitments, write William A. Repetto and Ioannis Vasileios Chremos, but there are ways to do so successfully.

How to be a successful leader in graduate school (opinion)

Are you truly a Ph.D. student or just an imposter? If you are feeling as if you’re the latter, Deepa Aravind offers recommendations.

How Ph.D. students can combat imposter syndrome (opinion)

Let’s face it: Poor teaching is a big barrier to student success.

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Sasha Bianca Goldman explores five reasons why they could be a solution for delivering professional development and skill-building content.

How digital badges can help Ph.D.s' careers (opinion)

Leaders in academe hold several keys to correct the well-documented tendency to undervalue women’s work, writes Nina Gray.

How to correct the underrepresentation of women in STEM (opinion)

Arizona State Univ drops in-person labs in intro biology courses after an experiment that boosted inclusivity. But some question whether the technology can faithfully replicate scientific pursuits.

Arizona State replaces all intro biology labs with VR labs The university drops in-person labs in intro biology courses after an experiment that boosted inclusivity. But some question whether the technology can faithfully replicate scientific pursuits.

A recent essay in The Chronicle called for doctoral programs to require courses on teaching skills and to better prepare Ph.D.s to teach undergraduates. But there’s another area of pedagogy that academe has entirely ignored: how to teach graduate students. [Requires Chronicle subscription]

Advice | Why Is There No Training on How to Teach Graduate Students? When you follow the graduate-school money, it leads to faculty offices, not student needs.

Reviewing decades of studies, researchers with “adversarial” perspectives conclude that tenure-track women and men in STEM receive comparable grant funding, journal acceptances and recommendation letters—and that women have an edge over men in hiring.

Review finds little evidence to support some claims of gender bias Reviewing decades of research, researchers with “adversarial” perspectives conclude that tenure-track women and men in STEM receive comparable grant funding, journal acceptances and recommendations letters—and that women have an edge over men in hiring.

Five simple ways to spark your students’ curiosity and learning by welcoming mistakes and ambiguity in the classroom. (Available to Chronicle subscribers)

Advice | How to Embrace Uncertainty in Your Teaching Five simple ways to spark your students’ curiosity and learning by welcoming mistakes and ambiguity in the classroom.