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Abstract Title: The Access Assembly: sharing ideas and enabling informed adaptations
Abstract Type: Contributed Poster Presentation
Abstract: Founded in 2014, the Access Network brings together nine student-centered, university-based programs that are pursuing systemic change towards a vision of a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible STEM community. Network and program leaders are primarily students (undergraduate and graduate) and early-career faculty, many of whom started out as student leaders in Access programs. Over the last 9 years, Access has brought people together (virtually or in-person) for an annual event called the "Assembly." The environment and structures at the Assembly enable the sharing of ideas, excite people to translate those ideas to their local programs, and create space for informed and deliberate adaptations. Drawing on post-Assembly survey data, we describe where ideas come from, and where attendees intend to apply them. We also see that participants from various institutional positionalities report learning new ideas at the Assembly and having confidence to adapt them to their local contexts.
Session Time: Poster Session C
Poster Number: C-41
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Author/Organizer Information

Primary Contact: Brianne Gutmann
San José State University
San Jose, CA 95112
Phone: 2245782894
Co-Author(s)
and Co-Presenter(s)
Chandra Turpen (she/her), University of Maryland College Park
Robert P. Dalka (he/him), University of Detroit Mercy
Mackenzie Carlson (she/her), Johns Hopkins University
Joel Corbo (he/him), University of Colorado Boulder
Gabrielle Jones-Hall, The Access Network
Megan Marshall Smith (she/her), Hamilton College
Devyn Shafer (she/her), Columbus City Schools

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