Arizona is building stronger pathways into cybersecurity careers through a partnership led by SRI and the Center for the Future of Arizona With funding from the National Science Foundation, the Arizona Cyber Pathways Research-Practice Partnership brings together Sunnyside Unified School District, Pima Community College, the University of Arizona, and the nonprofit AZ Cyber Initiative to … Continue reading Arizona Cyber Pathways Research-Practice Partnership
To understand the impact and implementation of the CCP project, CFA engaged SRI to conduct an independent evaluation of the project. This report presents findings from SRI’s comprehensive evaluation, offering insights into the project’s outcomes, the conditions that supported or hindered implementation, and key lessons to inform future efforts to strengthen career-connected learning pathways across … Continue reading Evaluation of the Career Connected Pathways Project | Final Report
In the November 2024 webinar Building Students’ Motivation and Learning Skills in Online Courses, researchers from the Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative shared insights from the Collaborative’s formative study of technology-enabled instructional strategies designed to support students’ self-directed learning in online and hybrid STEM courses.
Although nationally Latinx students declare majors in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields at similar rates as White students, our postsecondary education systems lose Latinx students along the way, resulting in disproportionately fewer Latinx STEM majors and degree holders.
Broadening participation in the STEM workforce means taking into account non-traditional academic and career pathways. It can also mean welcoming back people who seek to return to or advance STEM career pursuits they had left behind to join the military, raise families, or for other reasons.
The Center for the Future of Arizona (CFA), in partnership with LeadLocal and Jobs for the Future, worked with school districts in Arizona to increase high-need students’ access to quality career pathways in cybersecurity and computer science. In 2019, CFA received an early-phase Education Innovation and Research grant from the U.S. Department of Education to … Continue reading Evaluation of the Career Connected Pathways Project