Nick Nguyen ’22 (Mayo Clinic) shares his ethnography examining the challenges, barriers and moments of resistance that BIPOC premedical students experience both at Davidson College and within the larger context of American medicine.
MILE Student Advisors host a conversation for faculty and staff members to share their positive and negative experiences with a variety of class participation approaches such as cold calling, think-pair-share, and more.
Dr. Sarah Gaither (Duke) shares her research examining how diversity shapes social interactions, how multiple racial and social identities affect behaviors, and how contexts shape the development of racial perceptions and biases.
Dr. Leyte Winfield (Spelman) shares insights on how faculty and staff members can develop their cultural competencies to enhance learning experiences of all students, especially those with marginalized identities that STEM has excluded.
MILE students host a conversation for faculty and staff members to share strategies that help students respond effectively to the many stressors that influence their learning and self efficacy.
Dr. Mark Barsoum hosts a discussion of an important study, Drawing on Internal Strengths and Creating Spaces for Growth: How
Black Science Majors Navigate the Racial Climate at PWIs to Succeed, by Stanton et al. (2022).
A panel of STEM faculty members (Snyder, Zhang, Barsoum, Kuchera, Stutts) share their experiences navigating self doubts and the important lessons they learned.
MILE students host a conversation for faculty and staff members to share their positive and negative experiences with various teaching and learning strategies (e.g., lectures, flipped classrooms, group work).
MILE students host a conversation for faculty and staff members to discuss the essential components that foster optimal learning environments for all students and all those who support their learning. Seating is limited so advance registration is required.
Shauntell Pinckney (Howard) and Dr. Brent Maher share a rubric to examine learning-centered orientations in syllabi, how instructors
in all disciplines can use this new tool, and an analysis of Davidson STEM syllabi. Attendees are encouraged to bring a syllabus.
