Timeline

Year one begins to carry out the LCC’s plans, support continued collective learning and action as an LCC, and build capacity for inclusion on their own campuses.
UConn Core Team facilitates 6th ISTP MOOC and Learning Community cohort.
Core Team partners with Communications Assistant Professor in Residence Sara Stifano to collect and analyze data centered around the development and facilitation of professional learning communities.
UConn Core Team members, Martina Rosenberg and Andrew Moiseff attend first year convening at HHMI Janelia campus to align work with the largerIE3 initiatives.
Lara Chiaverini, Director of Inclusive Excellence in STEM Teaching and Learning, joins UConn Core Team.
Core team attends Year One Summer Convening at Centre College, uniting all 15 universities and colleges in Learning Community Cluster 5 to reflect and support each other in learning.
Core Team member and Associate Vice Provost Peter Diplock leaves UConn.
UConn Core Team offers ISTP MOOC and Learning community as a five-week summer asynchronous cohort for the first time.
Emerging Processes Work Group hosted workshop: A conversation with critical friends: Words have meaning. Can we assume they are the same for all of us?
HHMI Core Team member Martina Rosenberg and Dean of the School of Business Nora Madjar, in partnership with the Women’s Center, host the overwhelmingly popular book club, The No Club, centered around non promotable work for women in the workforce.
UConn Core Team hosts Equity in Action, a two-day workshop centered around the National Academies' consensus report on actionable antiracist mechanisms to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion. Participants engaged in insightful discussions and connected with real experiences, stories, and challenges facing our faculty and students.
UConn Communications Assistant Professor in Residence, Sara Stifano and PhD student, Rachel Tucker, present analysis and recommendations derived from Summer data collection.

Core team facilitated an Engineering learning community focused faculty growth and improvement through reflection, learning, and individual and collective action.
The Critical Teaching Behaviors Book Club launched on the Storrs Campus with 40 faculty registered for a sequence of 10 sessions.
Cosponsored seminar “Be The Messenger of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Within and Beyond the University of Connecticut community” and workshop “what can I do to make spaces just.” The two-day event was hosted by Molecular and Cell Biology and welcomed Dr. B. Chad Starks as their invited speaker.
Hosted a week-long Mobile Summer Institute (MoSI), including 17 facilitators and 56 participants. https://today.uconn.edu/2024/07/uconn-holds-mobile-summer-institute-on-scientific-teaching-and-transformation/
Core team represents UConn at the IE3 annual conference at the HHMI headquarters, which brings together all 104 institutions that receive IE3 funding.
UConn presents at the annual LCC5 Convening hosted by Drexel University, 15 institutions engaging and sharing lessons learned through project-based work in our learning community cluster.
UConn chairing LCC5 Advisory Board (two-year term)
UConn takes the reigns as lead of Project E, emerging processes (two-year term)

Core team expands to welcome two new members focusing on analyzing ATE across the university and exploring the amplification of the student voice in the PTR process and sense of belonging in the undergraduate and graduate communities.
Faculty Learning Communities launch at Storrs, Stamford and Hartford campuses to learn and reflect on ways to implement new teaching strategies to meet the needs of their students.
Core Team members partner with MCB faculty, Pallavi Limaye, to launch a series of professional development opportunities for faculty and staff at the Hartford campus, including a learning community, speaker series, book club, and support for individual change projects. This effort is also supported by an internal grant from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, CLAS.

Upcoming Activities and Programming in 2025

Critical Teaching Behaviors Book Clubs in person at UConn Hartford and Storrs
First cohort of Well-Being Lab for Student Access & Belonging (WeLAB) students get to work! 10 students total (7 individual projects and 1 team project) focus on projects to increase sense of belonging.
WeLAB Symposium to amplify and celebrate student work in belongingness
Second Faculty Summer Institute to empower educators to support students through evidence-based teaching practices.
Reimagining Institutional Systems for Equity (RISE) Institute to empower staff as key drivers of organizational change through engaging in projects that explore improving policies, structures, and practices contributing to disparities in opportunities and outcomes across the university.
Core team to present findings on action-oriented learning communities at ASEE Annual Conference: Engineering Educators Bringing the World Together
UConn hosts the LCC5 Convening held in Hartford to bring together 15 institutions across the country to discuss assessment and sustainability of grant work.

We are grateful to our supporters, co-conspirators and collaborators and are uplifted by your large and small wins!

Summer 2024
UConn Core Team will host a Mobile Summer Institute (MoSI) to address challenges in STEM education reform unique to colleges and universities.

Spring 2024
UConn Core Team members will host a 9-part book club series around the book, Critical Teaching Behaviors.

Summer 2024
HHMI to host 8^th ISTP MOOC and Learning community cohort.

November 2023
Year one Project update due – Full report coming soon!

October 2023
UConn Core Team hosts Equity in Action, a two-day workshop centered around the National Academies' consensus report on actionable antiracist mechanisms to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion. Participants engaged in insightful discussions and connected with real experiences, stories, and challenges facing our faculty and students.

UConn Communications Assistant Professor in Residence, Sara Stifano and PhD student, Rachel Tucker, present analysis and recommendations derived from Summer data collection.

September 2023
Emerging Processes Work Group hosted workshop: A conversation with critical friends: Words have meaning. Can we assume they are the same for all of us?

HHMI Core Team member Martina Rosenberg and Dean of the School of Business Nora Madjar, in partnership with the Women’s Center, host the overwhelmingly popular book club, The No Club, centered around non promotable work for women in the workforce.

July 2023
Year One Summer Convening at Centre College, uniting all 15 universities and colleges in Learning Community Cluster 5 to reflect and support each other in learning.

Core Team member and Associate Vice Provost Peter Diplock leaves UConn.

UConn Core Team offers ISTP MOOC and Learning community as a five-week summer asynchronous cohort for the first time.

June 2023
UConn Core Team members, Martina Rosenberg and Andrew Moiseff attend first year convening at HHMI Janelia campus to align work with the largerIE3 initiatives.

Lara Chiaverini, Director of Inclusive Excellence in STEM Teaching and Learning, joins UConn Core Team.

May 2023
Core Team partners with Communications Assistant Professor in Residence Sara Stifano to collect and analyze data centered around the development and facilitation of professional learning communities.

March 2023
UConn Core Team facilitates 6^th ISTP MOOC and Learning Community cohort.

November 2022
Year one begins to carry out the LCC’s plans, support continued collective learning and action as an LCC, and build capacity for inclusion on their own campuses.

October 2022
UConn Core Team hosts 4^th Inclusive Stem Teaching Project (ISTP) 6-week MOOC and Learning Community cohort.

September 2022
UConn receives notice of award for 6 year Inclusive Excellence grant totaling $505,000 to support continued collective learning and action as an LCC, and build capacity for inclusion on their own campuses.

March 2022
Each LCC was provided a six-year budget and asked to decide how to allocate their budget among the member institutions.

March 2021
UConn receives notice of IE3 Learning grant, providing funds to support activities that allowed members to learn with and from one another.

January 2020
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inclusive Excellence 3 Pre-proposal submitted by Dr. Martina Rosenberg.

Inclusive Teaching – ie3

Year 1: November 2022 – October 2023

Year 2: November 2023 – October 2024

Year 3: November 2024 – October 2025

MAPPING THE DESTINATION

OUR CORE TEAM

MANAGING TRAFFIC

ROAD BLOCKS

CONSTRUCTION LOANS

GREEN LIGHT