Graduate and Postgraduate Teachers

Graduate and Postgraduate Teachers, High School Students, Undergraduate Teachers December 16, 2019

Early research experiences: becoming a research mentor to high school students

Part two of our series on student research experiences focuses on the mentors. If you have not read our first article make sure to check it out to see student testimonials on how participating in a research mentoring program affected their lives.

This year, as part of the CUNY College Now STEM Research Academy, we had 154 students from 50 high schools across New York City participate in a science-focused pre-college course. Of that initial cohort, 78 students opted to engage in research with faculty over the summer. Over 30 research faculty, across nine City University of New York (CUNY) campuses, mentored Academy students this year. This article is a result of our experiences and as well as our research mentors.

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Graduate and Postgraduate Students, Graduate and Postgraduate Teachers, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Teachers May 21, 2018

Resources for teaching about prejudice and discrimination

The website Breaking the Prejudice Habit began as an immersive learning project funded by the Virginia Ball Center for Creative Inquiry at Ball State University. Mary Kite, the project director, selected an interdisciplinary team of 14 students to find ways to “break the prejudice habit” (Devine, Monteith, Zuwerink & Elliot, 1991).