The Role of a Higher Education Association to Catalyze Institutional Transformation

Event Date: March 31, 2022
Speaker: Kacy Redd
Speaker Affiliation: Associate Vice President of Research & STEM Education at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)
Time: 3:30 - 4:30 PM
Location: ARMS B071 and Online
Priority: No
School or Program: Engineering Education
College Calendar: Show
Dr. Kacy Redd
Dr. Kacy Redd
Dr. Redd will discuss how APLU, a higher education association with a membership of 244 public research universities, helps catalyze institutional transformation. She will provide lessons learned from her different projects that focus on improving undergraduate STEM education, diversifying the professoriate, building networks and partnerships, advancing open science, and broadening what counts for impactful work by faculty and staff.


Speaker Bio

Kacy Redd is the Associate Vice President of Research & STEM Education at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU). As part of her STEM education portfolio, she is the PI on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to build a Network of STEM Education Centers (#1524832), which serves more than 200 STEM Education Centers/Institutes/Programs at 160+ institutions. These centers serve as the hub for improving STEM education on their campuses. She is also the Co-PI and Co-lead of the Backbone for the NSF INCLUDES Aspire Alliance (#1834518) aimed at diversifying the STEM professoriate.  Working with the Association of American Universities (AAU), she is Co-PI on the Accelerating Public Access to Research Data (APARD) effort that is funded by NSF (#1837847, #1939279) and NIH and seeks to help universities make available the data from federally funded research. Before joining APLU, she served as a science and technology policy fellow at the National Academy of Sciences on the Board of Higher Education and Workforce. Redd received her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Columbia University, where she was funded by an HHMI Predoctoral Fellowship, and her B.S. from the University of Southern Mississippi.