This week the Bay View Alliance has expanded its membership to ten universities by welcoming the University of South Florida. Lorne Whitehead, program director of the Bay View Alliance, said USF is an excellent addition to the BVA because of its dedicated efforts to improve student achievement. It has been especially effective in helping a diverse student body succeed even as it has maintained stable tuition rates. Its STEER initiative, funded by the NSF, has focused on creating a culture of … [Read more...]

Two BVA projects, TRESTLE (RAC1) and TEval (RAC4), are featured in the 2019 STEM for All Video Showcase funded by the National Science Foundation.  This virtual event was held online May 13th -20th at https://stemforall2019.videohall.com.  Now in its fifth year, the showcase features over 240 federally-funded STEM education projects. Last year’s showcase has had over 81,000 unique visitors from 186 countries. The participants include researchers, practitioners, policy makers and members of the … [Read more...]

By Doug Ward CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Faculty members seem ready for a more substantive approach to evaluating teaching, but… It’s that “but” that about 30 faculty members from three Bay View Alliance universities focused on at a mini-conference here in late February. All are part of a project called TEval, which is working to develop a richer model of teaching evaluation by helping departments change their teaching culture. The project, funded by a $2.8 million National Science Foundation grant, … [Read more...]