The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) with support from NSF (1524832) founded the Network of STEM Education Centers (NSEC). NSEC is an organization of campus-based centers and offices that serve as catalysts for educational transformation in STEM. The network allows center leadership, university and college administrators, and state and national policymakers to have a central hub for their communal efforts.
To learn more visit: https://serc.carleton.edu/StemEdCenters/index.html
Also as part of this NSF-funded project, the Goldstein research team has developed a Netweaver Network platform, which is intended to be a center for network innovation, practice, and understanding, where insights from member networks are synthesized and made available to a broader community through pedagogy, publications, and other forms of outreach. In addition to information sharing, our goal is to provide netweavers with a professional community where they can refine practice, achieve greater recognition, identify netweaver career paths, and provide mutual support that sustains commitment to their work. As netweavers develop a shared professional identity as netweavers, this will enable them to become more confident in their practice, more willing to experiment with new approaches, more capable of collective action, and more effective in their interaction with their host organizations and sponsors. The webpage for this initiative is: http://www.netweavernetwork.org/.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. (1524832). Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.