CU announces official launch of the Center for STEM Learning

December 20, 2012 marked the official launch of the Center for STEM Learning (CSL). CSL is housed within the Graduate School and is funded by the National Science Foundation and CU-Boulder. The Center for STEM Learning developed from Integrating STEM Education, an on-campus program that facilitated communication between STEM disciplines, students, and key members of the community. The purpose (mission) of the CU-Boulder Center for STEM Learning is to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning at the University of Colorado Boulder, and to serve as a state, national, and international resource for such efforts. Our vision for achieving this mission is to maintain an infrastructure of institutional support in order to transform STEM education, support education research within STEM fields and departments, and promote K20 faculty recruitment, preparation, and professional development, and to facilitate change in STEM education by integrating an interdisciplinary community of scholars, promoting, sustaining, and evaluating existing reform efforts, sponsoring new programs, advocating for diversity and access, influencing relevant policy, fundraising, and communicating with the public.

We are proud to announce the members of the center's executive board: Philip P. DiStefano (Chancellor), Russell Moore (Provost & Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs), Frances Draper (Vice Chancellor for Strategic Relations), Steven Leigh (Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences), Lorrie Shepard (Dean of the School of Education), Robert Davis (Dean of the College of Engineering & Applied Science), and John Stevenson (Dean of the Graduate School).