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Making Academic Change Happen  MACH is an experience, a philosophy, and an approach. Most simply, MACH is a three day workshop during which change agents learn the skills they need to implement changes on their campuses. This approach harnesses the lessons of the research literature in institutional change and translates them into actionable skills any faculty member can learn and utilize.

Designing Student-Centered Learning Experiences is a weeklong interactive workshop for faculty teams engaged in a curricular change effort at their own institution. Through participatory workshops, immersive design exercises, and presentations from experts, teams of faculty learn about, experience, and practice effective, engaging teaching approaches for new and meaningful STEM curricula. Through the Summer Institute experience, we aim to create a learning environment for participants that Embraces creativity, prototyping, iterating, and dreaming big, Introduces a set of tools, concepts, and language about student-centered experience design, Promotes exploration of participants' contexts in new ways and provides insight into what we do here at Olin, and Builds community among educational change agents.