We live in challenging times. Higher education faces many challenges including changes in enrollment pattern, fiscal constraints and lack of public acceptance of the value of the degree relative to its costs. Our students are more diverse in countless intersectional ways: culture, neurodiversity, background, experience as well as gender, ethnicity etc. They have different hopes and aspirations. To reach all we must engage, know who they are, understand potential biases, and create welcoming environments, both brave and safe spaces, where students can address the challenges that confront the world. In response to call for STEM education reform in the 90’s, thousands of science educators have worked tirelessly to change academic culture and play their part in delivering on the social contract between science and a truly inclusive democratic society. The goal of this Faculty Research Guide is to expand the community committed to a more humane, socially responsible educational practice that will make a better future for us all and point the way to “strategic, collective action.”