ICAT Playdate: Understanding Organizational Partnerships to Improve Low Income Student Success
Ended Sep 13, 2024
1 credit
Full course description
Term: Fall 2024
Date: September 13th, 2024
Time: 8:30am - 9:30am
Location: Community Assembly in the Creativity + Innovation District Living-Learning Community
Instructor: Phyllis Newbill
Presented By: Institute for Creativity, Arts, and Technology (ICAT)
Description:
The Research on Organizational Partnerships in Education Systems (ROPES) Hub is a $3M NSF-funded project focused on understanding the network of systems that influence low-income engineering and computing student success. This project connects a wide range of higher education institutions across the nation with the intent on aggregating research on how broad networks of inter- and intra- organizational partnerships are critical to supporting low-income student success, particularly in engineering and computing careers. This discussion will focus on details about the value of organization and education systems-level research, the challenges and opportunities of bridging research and practice through collaboration with a wide range of four-year and two-year institutions across the nation, and a specific project around curricular complexity and the role of descriptive analysis as a boundary object to foster support change with faculty and departments.
https://news.vt.edu/articles/2022/05/low-income-first-year-students-research-hub-enge.html
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2138188&HistoricalAwards=falseLinks to an external site.
Speakers:
Virginia Tech:
David Knight, Professor & Special Assistant to the Dean
Jake Grohs, Associate Professor & Director of CENI
Amy Richardson, Postdoctoral Associate
Gary Kirk, Associate Director of CENI
James Newcomer, Academic and Career Advisor
Walter Lee, Associate Professor and Interim Associate Dean of Inclusive Excellence
Sarah Rodriguez, Associate Professor
Bevlee Watford. Professor Emerita, Associate Dean Emerita, Executive Director Emerita of the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity
Anya Work, Assistant Director of Career and Professional Development
Michelle Klopfer, Researcher
Northern Virginia Community College:
Belghith Hamadi, Professor
Weber State University:
Dustin Grote, Assistant Professor
University of Cincinnati:
David Reeping, Assistant Professor
University of Oklahoma:
Teri Reid, Director of OU Polytechnic Institute
P.K. Imbrie, Vice Provost for Faculty Effectiveness