​SynergIE in Natural Sciences
Building Towards Inclusive Excellence in STEM

Inclusive excellence (IE) in undergraduate science [STEM] education is a dynamic stance* of faculty & staff wherein students experience an inclusive education that embraces diversity and equity in which graduates self-identify as creative and responsible agents in the scientific enterprise of the 21st century. 

• IE is dynamic and responsive to contemporary contexts of society at all levels of the university
• IE is combative to marginalizing policies, procedures, and language
• IE occurs through continuous, critical self-examination of, and improvement of, practices at all levels of the university
  

*Modified from "Excellence – A renewed Call for Change in Undergraduate Higher Education," HHMI / AAC&U (2018)

Family Night for new first-time in college students in the
Department of Natural Sciences, July, 2019