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EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

            Near-Peer Mentors
            Freshman students taking general education and introductory major courses get tutoring and additional
            support from outstanding upperclassmen students, trained to assist faculty with course instruction inside
            and outside of the classroom. Read More (link to near-peer mentors subpage)

            Robotics Clinics
            Freshman students, working in teams, get hands-on learning opportunities as they develop technology
            projects that address real-world problems. Read More (link to robotics subpage)

            RESEARCH AND GRADUATE SCHOOL PREPARATION


            Summer Undergraduate Research Institute (SURI)
            Undergraduate students, selected by a competitive process, engage in faculty-guided research in an
            intensive 8- to 10-week program to prepare them to present their work at academic conferences and in
            scholarly journals.

            Bridges to Doctoral Education in STEM
            A group of 25 selected undergraduate students receive mentoring from faculty to conduct interdisciplinary
            research to prepare for doctoral study.

            FACULTY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

            Professional Learning Communities
            Faculty and staff, who teach and provide extra support to freshmen in the learning communities, form a
            community of their own to share and learn innovative practices to enhance student success.

            PARTNERSHIPS TO STRENGTHEN STEM PIPELINE

            Early Career Exposure
            Select students from Eleanor Roosevelt High School engage in hands-on Robotics Clinics, visits to the
            BSU campus and other outreach activities to give them a glimpse of college life and STEM careers.

            Initiative Goals

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            Our EI  programming aims to achieve the following goals:

                 Develop students’ identity by building learning communities, providing undergraduate research
                   learning opportunities and providing career-related mentoring, including attending conferences on
                   science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)

                 Integrate real world problem-solving and entrepreneurship in the STEM curriculum by adopting
                   technology into STEM courses and expanding student access to maker spaces to support
                   multidisciplinary learning

                 Build a critical mass of faculty as change agents by providing professional development to faculty
                   on experiential learning and evidence-based teaching
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