Business and Financial Management and Audit Control for Large Research Proposals

Overview of the Purdue University business, financial, and human resources operations as evidence of support for faculty to manage externally funded research

“Oh, That’s Engineering?”: Complicating Black Women Educators’ Understanding of Engineering Practices in Urban Elementary Schools

In most teacher preparation programs, a focus on standards and curricula with STEM concepts, specifically engineering, are largely missing from the teacher licensure requirements. There have been few opportunities for teacher educators to teach, learn, and reflect on the nuanced complexities of STEM, specifically engineering concepts and practices in urban elementary schools. This university-school- community partnership, led by Black women, focused on the early exploration of STEM with high-ability/ gifted Black girls, caregivers, and their Black women educators. In this qualitative study, Black women teachers were able to disrupt assumptions and stereotypes of STEM, particularly in engineering, and identify challenges of associating STEM perspectives to their everyday experiences and teaching with elementary school students. This essay explores and problematizes their assumptions, values, and utilization of engineering praxis for Black girls, their teachers, and their communities

Librarians as faculty developers: Shaping disciplinary classroom experiences through information literacy

Involvement in faculty development is a promising approach to realizing academic libraries’ goals for information literacy. This study examines an inter-institutional program where librarians partnered with classroom instructors to create projects where students learned to use information in disciplinary ways. Using thematic analysis to examine participant materials, the findings suggest that the informed learning design model underpinning the program supported the creation of information-rich projects and fostered a sense of empowerment in librarians serving as faculty developers. Librarians can advance their role as educators by partnering with classroom instructors and presenting information literacy as a way to foster disciplinary learning