Undergraduate Research at the Community College: Barriers and Opportunities

2016 ◽  
pp. 137-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Hewlett
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Barriers And Opportunities

Structures, Practices, and Policies to Support Community-Engaged Scholarship at the Community College

2020 ◽  
pp. 172-186
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif ◽  
Hugo García
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Postsecondary Institutions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Community Engaged Scholarship ◽  
Large Corpus

This chapter illuminates the ways in which community colleges can develop and enhance their community-engaged scholarship (CES) to ensure they meet the needs of the local communities they are a part of. Indeed, community-engaged scholarship (CES) has been seen as a vehicle to support local communities by creating partnerships with postsecondary institutions to ensure research is conducted in a way that is mutually beneficial. The authors first explore the large corpus of literature regarding undergraduate research and then present a select number of community colleges that have been successful in incorporating undergraduate research projects. They then present how CES has been defined and how it has been implemented within a higher education context. They then proceed to introduce a CES conceptual model and explain how community colleges can utilize the model to support the institutionalization of CES programs. They conclude with recommendations for future research.

scholarly journals Spreading Undergraduate Research Experiences across a Community College

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-61
Author(s):  
Angelo Kolokithas ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Technical College ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Undergraduate Research Experiences

This vignette discusses the impacts of undergraduate research experiences on the students of Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) through models for course and summer undergraduate research experiences (CURE, SURE). For the CURE, NWTC instructors have joined the Tiny Earth Initiative (n.d.), a network of students and instructors that focuses on student sourcing of antibiotics from soil. A SURE was created in which students commit to an internship in virology research of 8 hours a week.

scholarly journals Full-Spectrum Undergraduate Field Research at a Community College

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 64-65
Author(s):  
Scott L. Walker ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Knowledge Application ◽  
Second Category ◽  
Skill Building

Two broad categories of thinking guided the development of an undergraduate research agenda in the Geography and Environmental Sustainability (GES) Program at Northwest Vista College. The first category was a paradigm shift in categorizing need, focusing on skill-building. These interdisciplinary skills typically included communication, teamwork, decision-making, critical thinking, and knowledge application. The second category consisted of measuring research levels in the GES program.

scholarly journals Summit Recommendations Provide Guidance to Expand Undergraduate Research Experiences at Community Colleges

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 65-66
Author(s):  
Madeline Patton ◽  
◽  
Ellen Hause ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community College ◽  
Community Colleges ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Two Year Colleges ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Undergraduate Research Experiences ◽  
College Undergraduate ◽  
Rare Opportunity

The Community College Undergraduate Research Experience Summit was a rare opportunity for educators from various STEM disciplines and a cross section of institutions to share their perspectives on efforts by two-year colleges to build, implement, and sustain undergraduate research experiences.

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