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Jenny McBurney; Sarah Jane Brown; Mariya Gyendina; Shanda Hunt; Rebecca Orozco; Michael Peper; Greta Valentine; Benjamin Wiggins; Karna Younger – College & Research Libraries, 2024
The Research Sprints program offers faculty partners the opportunity to collaborate intensively and exclusively for one week with a team of librarians to achieve significant progress on research or teaching projects. This longitudinal study extends previous immediate and short-term assessments by interviewing Research Sprints participants at two…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Faculty, Teacher Collaboration, Program Evaluation
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McBurney, Jenny; Hunt, Shanda L.; Gyendina, Mariya; Brown, Sarah Jane; Wiggins, Benjamin; Nackerud, Shane – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2020
To create more direct and equal collaborations with faculty, the University of Minnesota Libraries in the Twin Cities adapted a new model of engagement: the "Research Sprints." Research Sprints place librarians in direct proximity with faculty to rapidly and collaboratively work on a component of a research project in less than a week.…
Descriptors: Library Research, Academic Libraries, Librarians, College Faculty
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Ventello, Gregg Primo – Thought & Action, 2008
This article describes the feelings of faculty members required to annually design an assessment project for each semester and report to the director of assessment the objectives and results of that project on a standardized form. What is misunderstood is that true assessment is part of the very "fiber of being" for many faculty members.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Evaluation Methods, Teaching Methods, College Faculty