In October 2005, the National Science Foundation awarded Eastern Michigan University a five year grant to support the project entitled “Creative Scientific Inquiry Experience: Developing Integrated Science Curriculum to Increase STEM* Graduates.” 

The intent of the project is to implement interventions that support high academic standards, promote faculty collaboration across disciplines, and increase student performance and persistence in demanding fields.

• Improve student success rate, in STEM courses by developing integrated Creative Scientific Inquiry Experiences that include Academic Service-Learning through community based research.
• Support student academic career development and subject mastery skills by producing interdisciplanary activities for the CSIEs.
• Offer faculty a wide range of professional development, course-release time and support to produce and sustain integrated content and pedagogical shift in course delivery.
• Institutionalize key project components at EMU to ensure that the CSIE program is brought to full scale by the fifth year, and sustained beyond project completion.
• Evaluate the effect on STEM students' academic progress and graduation rates, and disseminate the results of this effort.

Download a pdf version of the CSIE Brochure.