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Three hikers climb a rocky outcrop at sunrise, with one person at the top pulling another up while a third steadies them from below; all wear backpacks, and a wide mountain landscape with layered hills and clouds stretches into the distance under a colorful sky.

The system, not the students: Insights from the 2025 NASEM Report

May 4, 2026 Linh Nguyen Best Practices, News, Resources, Teaching, Tips, Workshops

I’ve spent years on various sides of the undergraduate STEM classroom—first as an underrepresented minority student navigating the hidden curricula of STEM language and culture,

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Embracing cultural wealth as a path to Black student success in STEM

January 24, 2025 Linh Nguyen Best Practices, Resources, Teaching, Tips

The persistent underrepresentation of Black students in STEM fields has long been viewed through a deficit lens, focusing on barriers and challenges rather than strengths

Concept of diversity of skills with silhouettes of people with different brains (e.g., math, science, art, music, etc.)

Combining STEM and Humanities: Broaden skills and enrich learning

January 10, 2025 Amanda Hirsch Resources, Teaching, Tips

STEM majors might kick off their careers with higher salaries, but research shows that humanities majors often catch up by mid-career, thanks to their adaptability

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Feminist pedagogies inform inclusive STEM teaching

May 30, 2024 Linh Nguyen Best Practices, Teaching, Tips

Traditional STEM teaching has a persistent predicament of exclusion and inequity. The 2023 Diversity and STEM: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities report from the

STEM research on remote teaching during the pandemic

September 2, 2020 Amanda Hirsch News, Newsletter, Teaching

Four NIU STEM education researchers recently submitted an article to a special issue of the Journal of Chemical Education on teaching during the time of