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Transforming Intro Bio at a Hispanic-Serving, Land Grant Institution (and how the pandemic got us to the finish line)
Many institutions are working to enhance student success and reduce disparities in introductory biology courses.
In this webinar, Michèle Shuster discusses how after many years of incremental progress, she took advantage of the disruption of the pandemic to overhaul her approach on the return to in-person teaching.
The result has been substantial improvements in
student success, and elimination of disparities in pass rates between minoritized and non-minoritized students.
In this webinar, we'll talk about Michèle's current course structure, the rationale for the decisions she made, and how these ideas can be used elsewhere.
Speakers
Michèle Shuster
Associate Professor of Biology, New Mexico State University
Michèle Shuster, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the biology department at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She focuses on the scholarship of teaching and learning and teaches introductory biology, microbiology, and cancer biology classes at the undergraduate level, as well as working on several K–12 science education programs. Michèle is involved in mentoring graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in effective teaching, preparing the next generation of undergraduate educators. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including the Westhafer Award for Teaching Excellence at NMSU. Michèle received her Ph.D. from the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University School of Medicine, where she studied meiotic chromosome segregation in yeast.