SENCER Center for Innovation
MidAtlantic
About SCI-MidAtlantic
The MidAtlantic Regional SENCER Center for Innovation hosts biannual conferences in area institutions where seasoned SENCER practioners and newly interested faculty come together to hear nationally renowned teacher-scholars and share their own ideas and experiences in teaching STEM discipline through timely civic questions. SCI-MA programs are open to participants from around the country, but are targeted to participants from, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. The Directors, together with Leadership Council members, travel throughout the area visiting campuses to speak about SENCER issues. Topics presented and discussed include the reform of undergraduate STEM education, assessment of teaching and learning, opportunities for community college articulation, efforts to coordinate a Consortium for Assessment of Student Achievement, informal science education arenas as well as Pre-Kindergarten-12th grade STEM education with programs for pre-service teachers
About the Host Institution: Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a leading national public research university and the state’s preeminent, comprehensive public institution of higher education, with more than 50,000 students on campuses in Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers has a unique history as a colonial college, a land-grant institution, and a state university. The university’s 27 degree-granting units offer majors in more than 100 fields, with thousands of courses covering the full range of human experience. Rutgers is dedicated to teaching that meets the highest standards of excellence; to conducting research that breaks new ground; and to turning knowledge into solutions for local, national, and global communities.
Past Symposia
Bringing SENCER to SEBS: MidAtlantic Fall Regional Conference
November 16, 2012
Rutgers University, Cook Campus
See more details about the meeting here.
SENCER MidAtlantic Regional Conference
Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Regional Conference
Metropolitan College of New York (NY), November 2011
Midatlantic Spring Conference
Barnard College (NY), April 2011
SENCER and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
The College of Staten Island (NY), October 2010
Preparing the Undergraduates of Tomorrow: How Informal Science Education Can Improve College Readiness
Franklin & Marshall College (PA), October 2009
Water, Water Everywhere: Connections for Research, Education, and Outreach
Rutgers University (NJ), April 2009
Preparing the Undergraduates of Tomorrow: The Critical Role of K-8 STEM Education
Franklin & Marshall College (PA), October 2008
New York Regional Meeting
New York University (NY), June 2008
Leadership Council Planning Meeting
Rutgers University (NJ), May 2008
SENCER - Network of Conservation Educators and Practictioners Workshop
American Museum of Natural History (NY), October 2007
How Students Learn: The Implications of Learning Research for Science Education
Franklin & Marshall College (PA), October 2007
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Recent Events
Regional Meeting
March 28, 2013
Stony Brook University
MidAtlantic
Co-Directors
Dr. Monica Devanas
Director, Faculty Development and Assessment Programs
Rutgers University
monica.devanas@rutgers.edu
Dr. Terry McGuire
Professor and Vice Chair, Genetics
Rutgers University
terry.mcguire@rutgers.edu
Leadership Council
Dr. David Ferguson
Stony Brook University
Dr. Richard Grallo
Metropolitan College of New York
Dr. Heide Hlawaty
Metropolitan College of New York
Dr. Trace Jordan
New York University
Dr. Ellen Mappen
National Center for Science and Civic Engagement
Dr. Eliza Reilly
Franklin & Marshall College
Dr. Patricia Wilson
La Salle University