{"id":4687,"date":"2026-09-08T23:05:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/math\/?page_id=4687"},"modified":"2026-09-08T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T03:19:08","slug":"marshall-focus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/math\/marshall-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall FOCUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/math\/files\/focus-logo1.png\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/math\/files\/focus-logo1.png\" alt=\"Logo of FOCUS\" width=\"415\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a>FOCUS (Faculty Opportunities for Collaboration, Understanding, and Support) is a\u00a0group of cross-disciplinary faculty members who are striving to implement institutional change to provide effective STEM education and mentorship. This 3-year initiative aims to transform undergraduate STEM education through innovative programming coupled with evidence-based teaching practices that empower faculty and inspire students.<\/p>\n<p>Our project aims to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Improve the effectiveness of undergraduate STEM education:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Providing faculty at Marshall University with a comprehensive framework for developing and incorporating active learning teaching practices to transform high-enrollment, lower-division courses within and across disciplines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Enhance undergraduate STEM student success:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Developing and propagating a STEM education community of practice sustained by motivated faculty interested in evidence-based student learning outcomes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Create sustained institutional change<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Working with partners to establish and adopt a culture that expects high-quality undergraduate STEM teaching with institutional support and compensation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Program Components:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The FOCUS initiative provides participating faculty with<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Mobile Summer Institute (MoSI) Workshop<\/li>\n<li>A Community of Practice and Lunc &amp; Learn events<\/li>\n<li>MiniGrant funding to support classroom implementation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This project is two-fold, creating both change for students and faculty. In this initiative, we will provide educators with a workshop, community of practice, and mini grants for implementation.<\/p>\n<p>This grant is funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsf.gov\/awardsearch\/show-award?AWD_ID=2519092\">NSF IUSE Directorate.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The grant title:\u00a0<strong>Advancing STEM Learning and Institutional Change through Faculty Training, Resources, and Support to Adopt Evidence-based Instructional Strategies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For general information, please email <a href=\"mailto:focus@marshall.edu\">focus@marshall.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOCUS (Faculty Opportunities for Collaboration, Understanding, and Support) is a\u00a0group of cross-disciplinary faculty members who are striving to implement institutional change to provide effective STEM education and mentorship. This 3-year initiative aims to transform undergraduate STEM education through innovative programming coupled with evidence-based teaching practices that empower faculty and inspire students. Our project aims to:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":552,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4687","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4687"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4719,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4687\/revisions\/4719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/math\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}