HSI INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATION PROJECT: IMPROVING UNDERGRADUATE STEM EDUCATION THROUGH FAMILY-CENTERED PEDAGOGY
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Student Projects
STEM family-centered projects: connecting content with students' heritage, ancestral knowledge, culture and community.
FIESTA Symposiums
Student projects are presented to families, faculty and community members.
About FIESTA
Family Integrated Education: Serving and Transforming Academia (FIESTA) is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) research project funded by the National Science Foundation that brings transformative changes in curriculum, pedagogy in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) courses, and incorporates a family-centered approach. STEM students also take a 1 credit hour Mexican American Studies (CESL-MAS) course to make critical connections between their major, community and families. By placing students and families from the community at the center of this model, the proposed project aims to dismantle deficit thinking systems, policy and practices that continue to marginalize Latinx students from STEM fields.