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Partnerships, Participation, and Equity in Undergraduate Research
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Martinez, Ted; Bloom, Nena; Whipple, Amy V.; Chischilly, Steve – Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 2018
Northern Arizona University (NAU) has been operating a National Science Foundation-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates program for 18 years. The program works with tribal and community college faculty to recruit students traditionally underrepresented in the sciences for a 10-week summer research experience at NAU. Since 2006, 77…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Student Participation, Equal Education, Undergraduate Students
Key Strategies for Building Research Capacity of University Faculty Members
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Huenneke, Laura F.; Stearns, Diane M.; Martinez, Jesse D.; Laurila, Kelly – Innovative Higher Education, 2017
Universities are under pressure to increase external research funding, and some federal agencies offer programs to expand research capacity in certain kinds of institutions. However, conflicts within faculty roles and other aspects of university operations influence the effectiveness of particular strategies for increasing research activity. We…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Capacity Building, Universities, Medical Research
Influences on Faculty Willingness to Mentor Undergraduate Students from Another University as Part of an Interinstitutional Research Training Program
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Morales, Danielle X.; Grineski, Sara E.; Collins, Timothy W. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2016
In 2014, the National Institutes of Health invested $31 million in 10 primary institutions across the United States through the Building Undergraduate Infrastructure Leading to Diversity (BUILD) program; one requirement of BUILD is sending undergraduate trainees from those primary institutions to partner institutions for research experiences.…
Descriptors: Influences, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Mentors
Residence Life and the New Student Experience, 3rd Edition. The First-Year Experience Monograph Series No. 5
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Zeller, William J., Ed. – National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2008
Residence life programs play a key role in recruiting students, helping them make a successful transition to a new institution, and in retaining them, whether students are enrolling for the first time, transferring from another institution, or entering graduate school. Chapters in this book address theories of learning and development, new…
Descriptors: College Housing, Dormitories, Student Adjustment, College Freshmen
Our Common Commitment. Enhancing Ethnic Minority Integration and Achievement in Arizona's Universities.
Arizona Board of Regents, Phoenix. – 1989
A report and recommendations of the Arizona Board of Regents' Ad Hoc Committee on University Access and Retention focuses on the enhancement of ethnic minority integration and achievement in Arizona's universities. Eight sections cover: introduction (the challenge for Arizona's universities); House Bill 2108; early outreach (linkages and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, Accountability, College Admission
Recruitment and Retention of Faculty, "An Imperiled National Resource."
Davis, George H. – 1988
One of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' (ABOR) Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness, this document discusses a survey on faculty recruitment and retention in Arizona's public universities. The importance of faculty, the projected nationwide shortage of faculty, and recruitment projections…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Competition, Educational Quality, Efficiency
Barriers to Minority Access and Persistence in Arizona's Universities: Perceptions of Students, Faculty, Staff and Administrators.
Wood, John J. – 1988
One of the working papers in the final report of the Arizona Board of Regents' Task Force on Excellence, Efficiency and Competitiveness, this study considers issues of minority access and persistence in Arizona's universities. Themes abstracted from personal interviews with minority students, faculty, and staff and minority and nonminority…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, College Administration, College Faculty