As STEM faculty, you can have an impact in supporting continuing efforts to improve outcomes for disabled students and other oppressed and repressed student populations navigating STEM!
BC Navigators Programs (Neurodiversity Navigators, Disabled Students Navigating STEM) has been granted funding from Microsoft Corporation to provide equity-educated faculty in STEM fields with Course Navigators in their classrooms so that the faculty has more time to focus on proactive and supportive equity efforts.
Below are some resources for you, if you’d like to learn more about supporting students in your classes.
Bellevue College resources (sometimes a stipend)
- Any workshop from the Faculty Commons High-Impact Equity-Creating, Integrative Teaching & Learning Frameworks & Practices strand
- Equity workshops at Faculty Professional Development days or within your division
Outside packaged resources (no fee)
- Higher Education Reimagined, Microsoft, (four videos, two hours total)
- Higher Education Resources, Microsoft
- Including Individuals with Disabilities in STEM Courses, Research, and Careers, STEM for all Multiplex, (Videos, resources, more)
- Stairway to STEM, (videos, articles, podcasts)
- Accessibility Learning Webinars by Microsoft Learning Desk (instructions for using accessibility features across MSFT products)
For further exploration
- The Changing Face of Science (article on disabled scientists and engineers), Inside Higher Ed
- Autistic Identity Within Autistic Culture (23-minute video)
- Follow Prof. Amanda Kirby on LinkedIn for her Neurodiversity blog
- Bellevue College Faculty Engaging in Excellence Site
This program is currently not providing support past June 2023. Please see Neurodiversity Navigators Faculty Resources for more information and support.
Last Updated January 1, 2023