About Us/Our Team
Mission and Goals
We cultivate success through a diverse culture of experiential learning, discovery, and innovation.
The overarching goal for the PASSION project is to support Cal Poly Pomona in becoming an important national model for an inclusive polytechnic university that inspires creativity and innovation, embraces local and global challenges, and transforms lives. Specifically, the project is designed to support STEM faculty in creating an inclusive atmosphere within the classroom, especially in critical transition courses, by attending to students’ motivation and other malleable social-psychological factors. To accomplish this overarching goal, the project is working to accomplish four more specific goals.
Principal Investigator
College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences
A collaborative team of CPP faculty and external experts will implement short-term psychological interventions in first year critical transition STEM courses (introductory physics and calculus) to rigorously investigate the extent that these interventions improve student success and psychological well-being in the context of a Hispanic Serving Institution.
Publications:
- Contextualizing Social Psychology Interventions
- Approach Coping is Associated with Higher Flourishing and Post Traumatic Growth during the Covid-19 Lockdown
- Social Connectedness in Physical Isolation: Online Teaching Practices That Support Under-Represented Undergraduate Students’ Feelings of Belonging and Engagement in STEM
Contact:
Center for the Advancement of Faculty Excellence (CAFE)
Develop a sustainable professional development program for faculty to implement inclusive teaching practices, informed by an understanding of student motivation, cultural competence, and social/psychological insights into CPP students.
Contact:
Victoria Bhavsar, Co-PI, Faculty Center for Professional Development
College of Engineering
Develop and study a sustainable, flexible Technology-Assisted Supplemental Instruction (TASI) peer-support program in the College of Engineering to support students in a critical transition series of courses offered in students’ middle years, and evaluate the extent to which social psychological variables influence student outcomes.
Maximizing Engineering Potential
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College of Science
Develop and study a professional development approach to help CPP math instructors use active-learning calculus concept inventory questions (ConcepTests).