Knowledge Flashcards
Haddix Funds - past piloting
- Math Journal Club
- Math Student Circles
- Noyce mentoring
- Calculus workshops
- LaTex writing
Haddix funds - my ideas
Travel
Speakers (travel, reception)
Pilot activities: math camp, research weekend, UR for Ed, taste-of-research stuff
Diversity - UNO
18% minority
44% first gen
11,554
Diversity of majors
1/8 STEM
68% retained at UNO (5% less than national)
Nationally: 60% leave math.
Few math majors per year (#s??)
Haddix
Former UNO math professor
Founded series of highly successful STEM companies
Wife: el ed teacher, passed
Diversity - Omaha
2/3 minorities
74% free/reduced lunch
Omaha: 30% of state population
Vice Chancellor of Research
Mentor STEM community chairs
Mainly: grant proposals
Chemistry & Biology
Bio: learning inventory
Chem: Community of Practice. Meet monthly around common themes.
Community Chair needs
Communicator: co-PI multiple times
Leader: PI CURTP, PI UNY IBL; IBLC; IBL Conf; CUR
Team builder: CURTP & UR overall
Candid conversations w/ colleagues: UR @ UA; Coalition of the Willing
Pedagogical xp: IBL
Quantity of contacts: balance leadership in IBL, UR, UA
Future for Community Chairs
Support faculty members in STEM strategic plan: IBLC/CURTP models
Discipline-based Education Research: IBLC research
Outreach: MTC & Research Weekend past; MCircle & Mcamp future
Research in strategic plan
UR / IBL focussed
Diversity high impact
Creative activity: art, history, sociology, poly sci
Ed UR
- read lit
- implement
- study
- reflect
- revise
Similar impacts on student (retention/motivation, problem solving, grit)
Numerical Ranges
Gau-Wu * Tridiag toep * Boundary gen, for 4-dim classif Flat portion doubly stochastic Finite Fields
Aim for the Stars
hands-on, informal science & math summer camp
“ignite the inner scienitist”
NE STEM 4U
student-run
brings quality, after-school STEM to disadvantaged elementary and middle school students in Omaha Public Schools (OPS)
