Cascadia Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience Conference

基于课程的本科研究经验（CUREs）是一种有充分记录的高影响力实践，有可能增加STEM中代表性不足的学生的保留和转移。治愈的定义有很多，但本质上是用来在常规课程的背景下教授学生研究技能。华盛顿州34所社区和技术学院的许多STEM教师正在开发和实施与学科领域和相关课程课程相匹配的CUREs。所有这34所学院也都采用了“引导路径”模式，以提高学生的保留率，并成功转入四年制大学或直接进入劳动力市场。尽管采取了这些措施，但没有一所大学有大规模实施和维持治疗的制度计划。卡斯卡迪亚治愈会议（C3）的目标是召集来自10所华盛顿州社区学院的STEM管理人员和教师团队，制定长期计划，以适应其学院资产、员工、学生和文化的方式，将治愈的广泛实践制度化，并与他们对引导路径模型的应用保持一致。预计这些计划将与它们的全机构战略计划保持一致。国家认可的专家将作为主持人和演讲者参加。这将确保学院的长期计划建立在关于cure制度化的先前研究的基础上，并且每个计划都可以利用每个学院可用的资源来实现。这次会议将由社区大学本科生研究倡议（CCURI）的领导推动，该倡议迄今已与142所大学合作，以发展治愈方法并使其制度化。CCURI的研究确定了七个与成功将cure融入STEM学术文化的大学相关的特征。在会议之前，每所学院将完成一项基线调查，以评估其校园内的学术文化。在会议上，每个团队将1)根据CCURI的特征列表和其他研究成果，评估其所在学院将cure制度化的能力；2)利用CCURI确定的七个特征，制定大规模制度化治愈的长期计划。这些大学将在一年后再次进行调查，以评估他们的进展，并注意到可能对其他寻求扩大使用CUREs的大学有用的经验教训。本研究将有助于厘清CCURI研究作为规划与决策工具的适用性。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) are a well-documented high-impact practice that has the potential to increase the retention and transfer of underrepresented students in STEM. CUREs have been defined in many ways, but are in essence, used to teach students research skills within the context of regular coursework. Many STEM faculty members within Washington State’s 34 community and technical colleges are developing and implementing CUREs that are matched to the disciplinary fields and curriculum of associated courses. All 34 of these colleges are also adopting the Guided Pathways model to increase students’ retention and successful transfer to four-year universities or direct entry into the workforce. Despite these measures, none of the colleges have institutional plans to implement and sustain CUREs on a broad scale. The goal of the Cascadia CURE Conference (C3) is to convene teams of STEM administrators and faculty from ten Washington State community colleges to create long-term plans to institutionalize the widespread practice of CUREs in a manner tailored to their colleges’ assets, employees, students, and cultures and also consistent with their applications of the Guided Pathways model. These plans are expected to be aligned with their institution-wide strategic plans. Nationally recognized experts will participate as facilitators and presenters. This will ensure that the colleges’ long-term plans build on prior research concerning the institutionalization of CUREs, and that each plan is achievable using the resources available at each college.The conference will be facilitated by leaders of the Community College Undergraduate Research Initiative (CCURI), an effort that has to date worked with 142 colleges to develop and institutionalize CUREs. CCURI’s research has identified seven characteristics associated with colleges that have successfully embedded CUREs within their STEM academic cultures. Prior to the conference, each college will complete a baseline survey to assess the academic culture of CUREs on their campus. At the conference, each team will 1) evaluate their college’s capacity for institutionalization of CUREs, based on CCURI’s list of characteristics and other research findings; and 2) write long-term plans for institutionalizing CUREs at scale, using the seven characteristics identified by CCURI. The colleges will repeat the survey after a year to evaluate their progress, as well as note lessons learned that may be useful for other colleges seeking to expand the use of CUREs. This study will help to clarify the applicability of CCURI’s research as a planning and decision-making tool.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.