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Washington community colleges are national leaders in undergraduate research at community colleges. This project builds on decades of work by innovative faculty in our system and WA CURE1, a two-year system-wide collaborative planning process (2021-2023 NSF award (# 2121486). We wish to thank all the participants, faculty, staff, and administrators who participated in WA CURE 1 and have supported and done undergraduate research at their colleges.
Washington community colleges are national leaders in undergraduate research at community colleges. This project builds on decades of work by innovative faculty in our system and WA CURE1, a two-year system-wide collaborative planning process (2021-2023 NSF award (# 2121486). We wish to thank all the participants, faculty, staff, and administrators who participated in WA CURE 1 and have supported and done undergraduate research at their colleges.
In WA CURE 1 we developed a distributed leadership structure connecting 44 faculty leaders from 25 community colleges across the state and SBCTC to create a shared vision and build leadership capacity. This vision became the foundation of the WA CURE 2 proposal and this consortium.
We documented systemic barriers, challenges, and opportunities for expanding UGR experiences. We also piloted a survey to understand the student experience of undergraduate research. This consortium was built to help faculty and colleges overcome these common barriers and to maximize student outcomes.
We secured more funding to support this work.
$50,000 from Guided Pathways team at the State Board (2023-24) to support course based undergraduate research experiences in high enrollment entry level courses.
$2,000,000 from the National Science Foundation (# 2332652) to build this consortium at the State Board and offer faculty stipends to develop and implement CUREs and provide professional development for 5 years (2024-2029) .
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