Hitomi Tonomura, History | 2022-2023 This project is a first-year seminar taught on the team-based learning module and introduces the nineteenth-century articulation of global race hierarchy during the era when the United States, using military and diplomatic means, forced Japan to recognize unequal trade relations. Students’ final projects will use available innovative technologies to represent…
Grant Category: NINI Grant
A Curriculum Collaboration: Coherent Inclusive Instruction and Assessment in the Math Introductory Program
P. Gavin LaRose, Mathematics | 2022-2023 With this project the Department of Mathematics will extend its work revising Math 105 (Data, Functions, and Graphs) and Math 115 (Calculus I) to Math 116 (Calculus II), and make this course sequence (which together are the Department’s Introductory Program in undergraduate mathematics) a coherent, inclusive and equity-focused whole.…
The Audiovisual Lexicon: Completing a Diverse Foundation for Media Literacy
Vincent Longo and Matthew Solomon, Screen Arts and Cultures | 2022-2023 The Audiovisual Lexicon is a comprehensive foundation for media literacy that aggregates the collective expertise of a diverse group of scholars, educators, and practitioners in a single open access streaming video resource composed of three-minute videos, each explaining a key analytical or conceptual term…
Expanding and Enhancing Active Learning in a Large-Scale Introductory Course
Alicia Romero, Statistics | 2020-2021 While Active Learning is becoming a more and more commonly used instructional strategy to improve learning and equity in courses, the implementation of this strategy becomes more complex and difficult as the size of the course increases. We are designing and implementing changes to Stats 250, one of the largest…
Expanding Inclusive Teaching and Mastery Assessment in Mathematics
P. Gavin LaRose, Mathematics | 2019-2020 The Department of Mathematics is in the first phase of a comprehensive project to improve the degree to which its Introductory Program courses (Math 105, Data Functions and Graphs; Math 115, Calculus I; and Math 116, Calculus II) are inclusive of students from populations that have traditionally been underrepresented…
Small Strokes Paint a Broader Picture: Developing A Gamified App with Commonly Used Scientific Measurement Instruments to Make Students aware of Their Own Sleep and Media Behavior
Jan Van den Bulck, Select Department | 2022-2023 Many students choose Comm344 “Media and Sleep” to understand their media use habits, their (un)healthy sleeping behaviors, and the interactions between these two areas of life. Students are confronted with social science, medical, and epidemiological research in the course. They learn to navigate the differences between beliefs…
Enhancing Inclusive and Active Learning: Digital and Innovative Biophysics Laboratory Teaching
Qiong Yang and Sarah Keane, Biophysics | 2020-2021 The goal of this project is to transform a core laboratory course in Biophysics (BIOPHYS 450) into a digital format. The course instructors will work with graduate student instructors (GSIs) to produce video demonstrations of major experiments and make them available online to all students taking this…
STAR and METEOR: Shining Out!
Cindy Lustig, Psychology | 2022-2023 Under-represented students, including those from historically marginalized groups, first-generation immigrants or college students, and/or low-income backgrounds, face barriers to participating in research activities that are crucial for advancing towards graduate school and developing transferable skills for non-academic careers. The STAR (Scholarship, Transferrable skills, Academics, & Research) program addresses this issue…
Bridging the Information Gaps for Graduate Student Instructors in Gateway Chemistry Courses
Corinna S. Schindler, Chemistry | 2020-2021 An integral component of undergraduate teaching at the University of Michigan relies on graduate student-led discussion sections and laboratory courses. In most cases, the instructors are highly motivated first-year graduate students who are inexperienced as teachers and often have not been subjected to modern teaching practices centered on equity…
Multicompetence, Self-Assessment, and Inclusion in Ukrainian Language Program
Svitlana Rogovyk, Slavic Languages and Literatures | 2022-2023 Ukrainian is the state language of Ukraine, one of the largest countries in Europe. It is also spoken in the Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada, Kazakhstan, Russia, the U.S., and other countries. In 2014, Ukrainian language was included into the Pentagon language priority list. Currently, Ukrainian is also…