Wiki Education is thrilled to announce we are now a partner of the STEMM Opportunity Alliance. The STEMM Opportunity Alliance (SOA) is a network of hundreds of cross-sector partners working together to expand access and opportunity so that any American, no matter their background or location, can enter and thrive in the STEMM (science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine) economy.
SOA’s mission is to address key areas to attain fundamental, systemic change, and ensure the full participation in the STEMM workforce to meet the increasing performance and innovation demands required to keep the U.S. competitive.
As an SOA partner, Wiki Education will help enact a community-developed national strategy to accelerate scientific excellence to power progress, innovation, and prosperity for all by 2050. In alignment with our work, Wiki Education will bolster the SOA’s national strategy’s Discovery pillar to help create opportunity for all in higher education.
In 2024 alone, our Wikipedia Student Program supported 336 STEMM courses that taught Wikipedia editing to 6,298 students in higher education classrooms, including 57 courses at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities. In 2025, we plan to support Wikipedia editing assignments for 7,000 higher education students across 375 STEMM courses, including 65 courses at these diverse institutions, to create more inclusive and accessible STEMM programming for all.
Wiki Education also committed to helping achieve the SOA’s national strategy’s Capstone goals on Strategic Communications, including to:
- Ensure that STEMM professionals depicted in entertainment and media are reflective of the country’s population.
- Effectively illustrate the importance of different perspectives in STEMM and how they are critical to achieving excellence in STEMM.
Throughout 2024, university and college students created 113 biographies of historically excluded STEMM professionals on Wikipedia, raising their visibility in the media. In 2025, we will train 200 students to improve 150 biographies on Wikipedia of historically excluded STEMM professionals to inspire excellence and diverse perspectives in the STEMM fields.
SOA will assist Wiki Education in meeting these goals by providing access to a resource library, funding opportunities, and programming to engage directly with other partners and their communities, as well as forums for planning and implementing the national strategy for equity and excellence.
In collaboration with SOA partners, Wiki Education will help reimagine and transform the existing STEMM ecosystem to better support the aspirations of untapped talent in this country.
Visit teach.wikiedu.org to learn more about the free resources, digital tools, and staff support that Wiki Education offers to postsecondary instructors in the United States and Canada.
Visit learn.wikiedu.org to explore our editing courses for subject matter experts.
