[LIBRARYDIR] Undergraduate research consortium

Thu Dec 3 11:47:27 PST 2020

Thank you, Greg!

Heath

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Subject: RE: Undergraduate research consortium

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We currently are running an undergraduate research symposium on an annual basis, the first one occurring last spring.

I'm not sure if LWTech's efforts would directly align with this project, but I will forward your message to the organizers of the symposium and invite them to connect with you.

Greg Bem, MLIS
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Lake Washington Inst. Of Technology
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Subject: [LIBRARYDIR] FW: Undergraduate research consortium

All:

Our Dean of RISE Institute Gita Bangera met with myself and our Library Program Chair to discuss this potential funding opportunity. Gita has been pursuing an undergraduate research consortium for a few years and wanted to reach out to the library to make sure libraries/librarians are involved in these efforts. Based on the information provided, I think our CTC libraries would be uniquely situated to provide support in this initiative. I can see several ways librarians/libraries can be involved in this: OER support, involvement in Guide Pathways work, statewide institutional repositories to capture undergraduate research, etc.

If you have any questions or would like me to invite Gita to a future meeting to discuss this initiative let me know.

Heath Hayden

From: Gita Bangera
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2020 6:25 PM
To: Heath Hayden <heath.hayden at bellevuecollege.edu<mailto:heath.hayden at bellevuecollege.edu>>; Lisa Lapointe <lisa.lapointe at bellevuecollege.edu<mailto:lisa.lapointe at bellevuecollege.edu>>
Subject: Undergraduate research consortium

Hi Heath and Lisa

Here is the email that went out to faculty (and some administrators) involved in undergraduate research at the 34 CTCs.

Heath it would be great if you could share some information with the Library Leadership Council

Thanks

Gita
Hello,

We hope the quarter is off to a nice start and that you are taking good care of yourselves during the ever-evolving changes happening in all our communities.

We are reaching out because you were invited or attended the statewide Zoom meeting that was held in February 2020, which served as the first step in forming a Washington State Undergraduate Research Consortium (URC). The purpose of the URC is to improve educational equity by bringing engaging research experiences to Washington community college students. We consider you a member of the visioning team and would like to invite you to continue this work with us. We are pursuing a grant on behalf the consortium and need letters of support and initial commitment to participate in this state-wide self-study and capacity building effort. Please read to the end and if you want to learn more join us for drop-in Q&A Nov 6th or Nov. 10th (zoom links @ end of email).

Background: We have decided to pursue an Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) Institutional and Community Transformation (ICT) Capacity Building grant (Level 1) from the National Science Foundation. For more info on the grant and justification see attachments.

In our statewide meeting in February, you provided several suggestions for next steps, which included building collective capacity (see attached meeting notes). The leadership team incorporated your input into this decision. Your ideas included the following:

1. Form workgroups to ease coordination and advance work more quickly
2. Develop workgroups and visioning team that include both faculty and administrators
3. Lead with racial equity
4. Integrate Guided Pathways strategies
5. Provide adequate time and appropriate compensation to support the work

With these suggestions in mind, the leadership team proposes we develop cross-institutional faculty/administrator workgroups to investigate how we can improve accessibility, quality, scalability, and sustainability of undergraduate research (UGR) across our network colleges. The workgroups, tailored to their participants' interests, would focus on a subtheme (see examples) within any of the following three major categories of inquiry to produce a best practice resource guide. Workgroups would:

  1.  Identify common elements across disciplines, programs, or institutions, that support students from underrepresented groups and can enhance educational equity through undergraduate research (example subthemes: improving minority outreach, creating peer mentorship models, using culturally relevant pedagogy, forming campus partnerships with existing minority focused programs etc.)
  2.  Examine effective change processes in community colleges in Washington State and identify best practices to guide the process of institutional transformation (i.e. developing course-based undergraduate research experiences (CURES), professional development for undergraduate research (UGR), incorporating UGR into Guided Pathways, inventorying models of departmental level incorporation of UGR)
  3.  Re-envision support networks for faculty and students to increase access, quality, and sustainability of undergraduate research efforts (i.e. best strategies for grants, getting administrative support, forming partnerships, creating a regional UGR symposium, etc.)

How you can contribute to this effort: We would love for you to contribute by being a member of our visioning committee, a partnering college, and a participant in this grant. This would include:

  1.  Securing a signed letter of support from your administration (Dean or VP of Instruction) and ideally, secure a commitment from them to serve on a workgroup with you or attend the larger meetings/receive our results at the end of the project  (see attached FY21 NSF IUSE Partner Letter template). This needs to be returned by December 1, 2020.
  2.  Committing to participate in a workgroup over the course of 2 years investigating one or more critical issues.
  3.  Committing to consortium meetings biannually to network, synthesize and disseminate findings.
  4.  Potentially collaborating on data efforts to inventory student/faculty participation in UGR across our colleges
  5.  Optional participation: This effort will likely include the formation of a new statewide SBCTC sponsored community of practice in undergraduate research to meet the need for faculty to share and collaborate on undergraduate research curriculum.

IF you are unable to participate, please forward this email onto an interested colleague at your college. We would love to have your college represented in this work! All faculty would receive a stipend for participation in the workgroups or other efforts.

Dr. Gita Bangera (pronouns - she/her)
Dean RISE learning Institute
Bellevue College
Tel: 425 564 2312
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