Case Study: Engaging Students From Underrepresented Populations: The Enduring Legacies Native Cases Initiative | NSTA

Case Study: Engaging Students From Underrepresented Populations: The Enduring Legacies Native Cases Initiative

Journal of College Science Teaching—March/April 2012

This project provies a unique opportunity for a partnership between two state colleges and two tribal Native American colleges. First, the authors developed a collection of interdisciplinary cases. Second they taught faculty how to teach with cases in the company of stimulating colleagues from various colleges and universities. And last, they did extensive dissemination activities to ensure that the cases reached a broad national audience.

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