ICAT Playdate: Understanding Organizational Partnerships to Improve Low Income Student Success

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