Collaborative Research: Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative (CCURI)

社区学院本科生研究计划（CCURI）www.ccuri.org是一个由社区学院，四年制学校，政府机构和私人组织组成的国家联盟，致力于开发，实施和评估将本科生研究（UR）经验融入社区学院生物课程的可持续模式。在与本科生研究（CUR）的理事会的合作伙伴关系，CCURI已经开发了一个完全集成的模式，在社区学院整合本科生研究。该项目旨在：1）将CCURI模型的修改版本扩展到另外16所社区学院; 2）对CCURI模型在STEM学生学习，能力和保留方面进行全面评估; 3）衡量CCURI模型对致力于开发本科研究计划的另外16所社区学院的机构能力发展的影响;以及4）传播CCURI内的机构合作伙伴中存在的经修改的CCURI整合模型和该模型的定制版本。这一建议是对《愿景和变革：行动呼吁》（NSF/AAAS）和《生物学组织2010年报告》（NRC）中提出的生物学教育改革建议的回应。CCURI正在制定一项经过充分验证的战略，社区大学可以参考该战略来了解如何启动改革。CCURI模式是新颖的，因为它是从一个独特的障碍，社区学院在维持UR计划面临的根本原因分析。该提案包括经济影响指标作为评估社区学院教师模型的工具，并利用与田纳西理工学院及其CAT工具的合作关系来获取批判性思维技能的收益-这一结果的影响超出了生物学。该项目正在创建和维持一个全国性的社区学院网络，致力于将乌拉圭回合的经验纳入生物课程。该模式正在帮助社区学院克服独特的障碍，这些障碍使他们无法在约45%的美国本科生中使用UR教学法，包括代表性不足的群体和第一代上大学的家庭学生。广泛的评估计划的结果正在广泛传播，并用于完善社区学院整合UR经验的模式。

The Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative (CCURI) www.ccuri.org is a national consortium of community colleges, four-year schools, government agencies, and private organizations dedicated to the development, implementation, and assessment of a sustainable model for integrating an undergraduate research (UR) experience into community college biology curriculum. In partnership with the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), CCURI has developed a fully-integrated model for integrating undergraduate research at a community college. This project aims to 1) Expand a modified version of the CCURI model to 16 additional community colleges; 2) Implement a comprehensive evaluation of the CCURI model on student learning, competency, and retention in STEM; 3) Measure the impact of the CCURI model on developing institutional capacity at the 16 additional community colleges that are committed to developing an undergraduate research program; and 4) Disseminate the modified CCURI model of integration and the customized versions of the model as they exist at the institutional partners within CCURI. This proposal is responsive to the recommendations for biology education reform called for in both Vision and Change: A Call To Action (NSF/AAAS) and the BIO 2010 report (NRC). CCURI is working toward a fully validated strategy that community colleges can look to in understanding how to initiate reform. The CCURI model is novel in that it was developed from a Root Cause Analysis of the unique barriers that community colleges face in sustaining UR programs. The proposal includes economic impact metrics as a tool for evaluating a Community College Faculty Model, and leverages a partnership with Tennessee Tech and their CAT instrument to capture gains in critical thinking skills - an outcome with implications beyond biology. This project is creating and sustaining a national network of Community Colleges committed to bringing the UR experience into biology curriculum. The model is helping community colleges overcome the unique barriers that have prevented them from employing the power of the UR pedagogy in the education of approximately 45% of all U.S. undergraduates including underrepresented groups and students who are the first generation of their family to attend college. The results from the extensive evaluation plan is being widely disseminated and used to refine the model for integrating the UR experience at a community college.