Empowering Equitable Education in STEM

Faculty/Staff Resources

Faculty/Staff Resources

One of the goals of the E3 Institute is to equip faculty and staff with the skills, knowledge, and resources needed to become champions for equity and excellence in STEM. These resources include information on inclusive pedagogy, curriculum design, graduate school preparation, among other topics.

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In an effort to equip faculty and staff with the tools that they need to support students within their STEM courses and majors, E3 has compiled a list of pedagogical and campus resources that may be beneficial during instruction or advising. These resources are meant to provide a cursory overview of some tools that educators can use to improve teaching or course content and some of the office on campus that may be able to provide more personalized support for student needs.

Inclusive Instruction Techniques: Universal Design for Learning

UDL Guidelines are a dynamic tool designed to improve and optimize teaching for the benefit of all students and instructors. These guidelines offer suggestions that can implemented in every course, regardless of discipline or domain. Adapting course design to be purposeful and intentional using some of these guidelines benefits not only students with disabilities or accommodations but ALL students.

For more information on UDL guidelines, including proposed updates to the framework, visit the CAST website here.

Accessible by Design: Strategies for Creating Inclusive Course Materials

Creating accessible content, or adjusting exiting content to be accessible, is essential in order to ensure that people with disabilities or learning difficulties are able to access course content. Accessible design benefits everyone and ensures that all students are able to contain the information they need from course content.

Some examples of tools that can help improve content accessibility include:

For help developing accessible content or with questions about accessible features, instructors are urged to contact Instructional Design and Technology Services.

Office of Disability Services (ODS)

The Office of Disability Services (ODS) on the Rutgers-Camden campus is committed to providing students with the information and resources that they need to pursue their academic, personal, and professional goals at RUC. Students can request accommodations from the office and a Letter of Accommodations can be submitted to professors and course instructors in order to ensure that these accommodations are being appropriately implemented.

Students looking to get approved for accommodations should reference the Access and Disability Resources page here. Faculty and staff should direct students to this page and ODS with questions.

Rutgers’ Access and Disability Resources page also provide faculty with various accessibility resources and training modules to provide information about working with students with disabilities. These resources include:

Additional resources can be found on the Access and Disability Resources page for faculty here. Faculty members are encouraged to contact the Office of Disability Services with questions.

Career Center

The Career Center’s goal is to help students succeed in their academic, workplace, and entrepreneurship worlds. By providing a range of services, including resume help, job and internship search assistance, and graduate school preparation, the Career Center can help prepare RUC students for the post-graduation world. With resources for new students, returning students, and graduate students, the Career Center is dedicated to helping students of all majors interested in pursuing careers in all disciplines, including STEM fields.

Additionally, the Career Center provides resources to faculty and staff to use in the classroom for a variety of career and job-search-related topics. Faculty and staff members can learn more about these resources here.

To learn more about the services that the Career Center provides, students should be directed to their webpage here.

Office of Scholar Development and Fellowship Advising (OSDFA)

The Office of Scholar Development and Fellowship Advising (OSDFA) is part of the Student Academic Success and is committed to empowering students on their personal, academic, and professional journeys. The office provides strategic planning, advice, and resources to students interested in pursuing graduate education and funded award opportunities that enhance their academic experiences and professional skills. OSDFA staff provide personalized coaching that allows for the identification of individual students’ interests and goals.

OSDFA helps students apply to many funded award opportunities, including STEM/research-specific programs. A list of these opportunities can be found on their webpage here.

Additionally, faculty and staff members are able to refer students to the OSDFA office for advising. To refer a student, use this link.

Graduate School Preparation

For faculty and staff members looking to advise students on graduate school, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at RUC has ample resources to help students prepare and matriculate into advanced degree programs.

For general guidance, students can listen to one of the many Graduate School Podcasts, linked below:

For additional information, faculty, staff, and students should reference the Graduate School website, linked here.