What Does WA CURE do?
What Does WA CURE do?
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The Washington Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Equity (WA CURE) is a statewide consortium funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF IUSE 2336652) operating across the 34 community and technical colleges in Washington State (WA) under the leadership of the WA State Board of Community and Technical Colleges (SBCTC) and Green River College (GRC), Yakima Valley College (YVC), and Edmonds College (EC).
Our Approach
Our Approach
Our design strategy integrates undergraduate research within a regular course format called Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs). CUREs are considered high-impact practices for student success and provide community and technical colleges (CTCs) with the ability to overcome many of the institutional and structural barriers to implementing undergraduate research at primarily undergraduate and under-resourced colleges.
WA CURE is also a research project exploring how Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences affect faculty teaching practices, improve overall student outcomes, and create institutional change within community colleges. These research questions center on individual faculty development in broader systemic transformation, examining the connections between classroom innovation, student achievement, and institutional success.
We invite you to participate in these efforts.
We invite you to participate in these efforts.
Watch the project launch!
Watch the project launch!
The National Science Foundation funds this work and it is a 5-year project (2024-2029) to expand undergraduate research opportunities across Washington's 34 Community and Technical Colleges.
Paid Opportunities
Paid Opportunities
Faculty Learning Communities
Faculty Learning Communities
Cohorts of faculty will meet monthly over the course of an academic year to learn how to design new, and/or implement pre-existing CUREs into their curriculum.
Design Teams
Design Teams
Faculty groups develop CUREs as a strategy for increasing student success in entry-level courses that serve large numbers of diverse student populations.
WA CURE Academy
WA CURE Academy
Teams of 3-4 faculty, staff, and administrators from participating colleges to cultivate leadership, establish strategic action plans, and initiate the expansion of undergraduate research at their institutions as a core student success strategy.
Applications open in Sept 2025.
Open Educational Resource Repository
Open Educational Resource Repository
An open-source CURE curriculum archive of WA community college CUREs and teacher-to-teacher webinars.
Ongoing Opportunities
Ongoing Opportunities
Drop-In Community of Practice
Drop-In Community of Practice
Informally explore best instructional practices, share curriculum, connect to research opportunities, build community, and connect across colleges
Research Workshops
Research Workshops
Student and faculty-facing workshops and events related to human subjects research, research career skills and preparation, and connections to research opportunities and networks
Request your class be coded as an undergraduate research experience in CTClink.
Request your class be coded as an undergraduate research experience in CTClink.
Questions?
Questions?
Contact Program Manager Irene Shaver [ishaver@sbctc.edu] to get more information on the project.
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