The NODE center is a hub for a community of HSI-STEM researchers and practitioners focused on advancing knowledge, policy, and practice to bolster upward mobility of students enrolledat HSIs and develop the STEM workforce.

Stay up to date on emerging information about HSI STEM projects.  

NODE hosts workshops and webinars about evaluating HSI STEM for grantees new to project evaluation or with extensive experience. NODE builds community through Coffee Chats, a space for sharing stories, exchanging experiences and understandings, and networking. NODE holds virtual office hours for one-on-one and team conversations to support the evaluation of HSI STEM projects team offer just-in-time tips and solutions to problems.
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Meet with Dr. Michelle Burd, an expert evaluator with over 25 years of experience in NSF HSI and STEM education projects. Conversations could address evaluation plans, logic models, data collection and analysis, qualitative and quantitative methods, culturally responsive and equitable evaluation, relationships between PIs and evaluators, finding an evaluator and more!
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Office hours are presently paused.

Join our Coffee Chats to learn about evaluation in HSIs. Coffee Chats are monthly online meetings, less formal than a webinar, where we delve into a topic, engage in conversation, share experiences, problem-solve together,and network.  Bring your questions and stories. We look forward to learning from you. 
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Coffee chats are presently paused.
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