Senior Research Associate University of California Irvine, United States
Program Abstract: Community colleges are integral to increase the number and diversity of STEM professionals. A major barrier to successful transfer and degree completion is often a lack of meaningful collaboration between two- and four-year institutions. In this session, we will describe two theoretically driven efforts to establish two-and four-year research partnerships aimed at improving transfer student success. The first is the Biology Education Intersegmental Collaborative (BEIC), comprising two- and four-year faculty learning communities. BEIC aims to facilitate the co-development, implementation, assessment, and dissemination of evidence-based practices in STEM courses or programs. The second is the STEM Transfer Pathways Conference, a three-day convening of two- and four-year institutions with the goal of establishing collaborative research partnerships. Participants were familiarized with institutional data to evaluate transfer student success, consider other types of data that could assess this outcome, and construct a plan to evaluate transfer student support on their campuses.
