{"id":1624,"date":"2023-08-01T16:14:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T20:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2023-08-01T16:14:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T20:14:34","slug":"aspire-alliance-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/lammlab\/2023\/08\/aspire-alliance-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamm Lab at the NSF’s Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Aspire Alliance Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dr. Alexa Lamm<\/a> and Dr. Millicent Oyugi<\/a> attended the NSF\u2019s Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Aspire Alliance Summit <\/a>hosted on July 19 – 20, 2023, at UCLA\u2019s Luskin Center in Los Angeles, CA. The Aspire Alliance Summit regarded systemic change for an inclusive and diverse faculty and explored key issues regarding advancing STEM faculty diversity and inclusion by sharing emergent research and promising practices, community dialogue, and intentional network building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the support of the NSF grant through Dr. Alexa Lamm, Millicent collaborated with the Aspire National Team, Regional Change, IChange, Research, and Evaluation teams to present two oral abstracts and one poster at the summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read below about the various presentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Building Regional Cross-Institution Collaboratives Across the Nation: The Aspire Regional Change Initiative Shares Our 5-Year Story<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Authors: Jess Gregg – CEILS at University of California, Los Angeles; Maria Wright – Bakersfield College; Millicent Oyugi and Alexa J. Lamm – University of Georgia; Jana Foxe and\u00a0Liz Litzler – University of Washington, Center for Evaluation & Research for STEM Equity (CERSE); Craig Oglivie – Montana State University; Gigi Delk – Tyler Junior College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Left to right) Jess Gregg, Millicent Oyugi, and Maria Wright present about the growth of the Aspire Regional Change Initiative and its goals for the future. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jess Gregg, Maria Wright, and Millicent A. Oyugi <\/strong>presented outcome data collected over the past 5 years, revealing how the Aspire Regional Change Initiative<\/a><\/span> has systematically grown from 3 to 9 national Regional Collaboratives across California, Texas, Iowa, Florida, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Massachusetts with an additional planning grant in New York. Each regional collaborative consists of partnerships between 4-year and 2-year colleges, and each provides mentored teaching practicum experiences for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. One of the prominent goals for Aspire Regional Change is to build and strengthen concrete pathways to teaching at a two-year college, particularly for individuals underrepresented in STEM faculty within a given region, to diversify the faculty across the nation more broadly. During this session, the speakers discussed the Aspire Alliance team structure, program goals, teaching practicum program model, and outcome data revealing how mentoring commitments positively impact underrepresented graduate students\u2019 community college STEM teaching competencies and self-efficacy. They also shared project successes, challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned over the past five years. To view more resources, visit www.aspirealliance.org\/resources<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roundtable<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Examining Collaborative Dynamics and Collective Impact Processes within NSF EBJ Aspire Alliance<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Authors: Lucas Hill – University of Wisconsin-Madison; Diane Codding – Northwestern University; Jana Foxe, Liz Litzler, Brooke Wolfe – University of Washington; Millicent Akinyi Oyugi – University of Georgia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Millicent Oyugi participates in the roundtable event to share varying perspectives on the success of the NSF EBJ INCLUDES Aspire Alliance projects.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Drs. Lucas Hill and Liz Litzler<\/strong> presented how project dynamics within STEM reform initiatives\/ programs, directly and indirectly, influence what is pursued, how it is pursued, and the resultant outcomes and impact. This session examined project dynamics within the NSF Eddie Bernice Johnson INCLUDES Aspire Alliance (Aspire)<\/a> from research and evaluation perspectives based on various dimensions of the collaborative dynamics framework\u2014motivation, group norms and processes, leadership, and resources. The evaluation employed multiple data collection methods, including collective impact surveys, interviews, partnership tracking, and meeting observations, data spread across five years (2019-2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drs. Millicent Oyugi, <\/strong>Diane Codding, Brooke Wolfe, and Jana Foxe presented key results from each perspective:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n