Featured Project: Departmental Action Teams

The Departmental Action Team (DAT) project is a joint effort between the University of Colorado Boulder (CU) and at Colorado State University (CSU). A Departmental Action Team is an externally-facilitated working group of 4 to 8 faculty, staff, and/or students that is created by a department to achieve two goals: 1) to create sustainable change around a broad-scale issue related to undergraduate education in the department by shifting departmental structures and culture and 2) to help DAT participants become change agents through developing facilitation and leadership skills. To meet these goals, the DAT is supported by external facilitators from our project team who have expertise in STEM education, facilitation, organizational culture, and education research. We are conducting ongoing research on the DAT model, which will support a deeper understanding of how to cultivate departmental change.