Bennett Goldberg, PhD

Principal Investigator
Professor of Physics and Astronomy; Faculty Director of the Program Evaluation Core
Northwestern University
Dr. B. B. Goldberg (he/him) is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy, the former recent Director of the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching and Assistant Provost for Learning and Teaching, Northwestern University. Goldberg is PI of the Inclusive Graduate Programs: An AGEP Pilot in Physics, and was co-PI of 2020 AGEP National Research conference, where he and colleagues worked across STEM departments in cycles of improvement, and where they studied the alignment of theories of change, with the locus, foci, and targets of change. Goldberg is one of the collaborative PIs of the Inclusive STEM Teaching Project. His work is in inclusive teaching, institutional change and in supporting access to and success in higher education, graduate education, and academic pathways for excluded groups.
Relevant Publications
Calkins, S., Conway, A., Daniels, T., Frey, R. F., Gillian-Daniel, D., Goldberg, B.B., Greenler, R., Hill, L., Hokanson, S. C., Johnson-Ojeda, V., Pinder-Grover, T., Armstrong, S., Buchanan, D., Codding, D., … Woods, S. E., & York, A. M. (2024). Scaling inclusive teaching: A national STEM teaching initiative centering identity, power and privilege. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 56(5), 31-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/00091383.2024.2385271
Goldberg, B. B., Bruff, D. O., Greenler, R. M., Barnicle, K., Green, N. H., Campbell, L. E., … & Campa III, H. (2023). Preparing future STEM faculty through flexible teaching professional development. Plos one, 18(10), e0276349. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276349
Hokanson, S.C., Grannan, S., Greenler, R., Gillian-Daniel D., Campa H., & Goldberg B. B. (2019). A Study of Synchronous, Online Professional Development Workshops for Graduate Students and Postdocs Reveals the Value of Reflection and Community Building. Innov High Educ 44, 385–398. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-019-9470-6