2016 National Conference Proceedings

Conference Proceedings DIVERSITY, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY IN AMERICA’S RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES Research-Based Initiatives that Promote Shared Discovery and Learning by Students, Faculty, and Staff November 10-12, 2016 Renaissance Arlington Capital View Arlington, Virginia Supported by the National Science Foundation and the Reinvention Collaborative at Colorado State University. The Reinvention Collaborative – Advancing Undergraduate Education in America’s Research Universities Table of Contents Introduction from the Executive Director and President and Chair of the Board ............... 1 Conference Schedule ...................................................................................................... 2 Conference Session Introductions, Transcripts, and Summaries ...................................... 6 The Multiple Intersections between Culture, Identity, Learning, and Discovery in Research Universities ......................................................................6 Unpacking the Student Life Cycle (1) – Strengthening College-Going Pipelines and Promoting Academic Success of Diverse Student Populations During Their First Semesters at a University ........................................................... 23 Unpacking the Student Life Cycle (2) – Successful Transitions into Majors, Efficient Degree Completion, Visible Pathways to Post-Baccalaureate Educational Experiences and Careers .................................................................... 39 Envisioning the Overarching Institutional Pieces: What Would the Structure and Culture of a University That Did These Things Well Look Like? ........................ 55 Presenter Biographies ................................................................................................... 69 Poster Sessions ............................................................................................................. 79 2016 Member Institutions ............................................................................................. 83 2016 Reinvention Collaborative Board ........................................................................... 84 Slides referenced in the plenary sessions, along with other companion documents, are available at reinventioncollaborative.colostate.edu/2016-national-conference- proceedings A special thank you to our co-sponsors, the National Science Foundation and Colorado State University. Partial support for this conference was provided by the NSF under grant number 1649011. The Reinvention Collaborative wishes to thank the rapporteurs who documented the breakout sessions: Elliot Cooper Heather Matthews Kayla Cothrun Jill Putman Kim Daggett Jessie Stewart Amy Dinise-Halter Kalyn Stroik Demetrios Godenitz Coronda Ziegler Erin Heim Liz Mauk, Editor Carmody Leerssen Introduction from the Executive Director and President and Chair of the Board We are pleased to share the Proceedings of that informed the planners of the 2014 conference shared discovery and learning by diverse the Reinvention Collaborative’s 2016 National was the conclusion that, at least at the level of populations of students, faculty, and staff. In this Conference, Diversity, Culture, and Identity in accepted narrative, an extraordinary transformation context, discovery not only includes substantive America’s Research Universities: Research-based in people’s understanding of what an undergraduate discoveries that emerge out of sustained inquiry or Initiatives that Promote Shared Discovery and educational experience at a research university serendipitous “eureka” moments, but also individual Learning by Students, Faculty, and Staff. had taken place. From a call for transformation and institutional self-discovery. The focus on While the timing of the conference, coming as that was regarded as so radical in 1998 that the curiosity, creativity, and sustained inquiry that leads it did two days after the 2016 national election, Carnegie Foundation disowned its own commission to discovery applies not only to the characteristics heightened the drama and sense of urgency around report and the AAU attacked its conclusions and the undergraduate experience universities should issues of human difference, the theme was actually recommendations, by 2014 the Boyer Report had cultivate in students but also to an overarching chosen well over a year before. In early 2015 the assumed an almost unproblematic, and even iconic, commitment by universities to cultivate an ongoing Board and Program Committee concluded that status on our campuses. process of institutional self-discovery about the impact of different practices. a systematic exploration of questions involving We believed that taken together, these intertwining culture and identity was both a natural follow-up developments were creating a once-in-professional The conference opened with a discussion of to the 2014 conference and critical to enhancing lifetime opportunity to make real the enduring what we know about the multiple intersections the Collaborative’s ability to achieve its mission of promise that America’s research universities could between culture, identity, learning, and discovery advancing undergraduate education in America’s provide a distinctive context for engaged learning. in research universities across academic and research universities. That judgment led us to close the 2014 Conference student affairs. We purposefully placed the focus of with a challenge: the initial discussion on what the research shows The 2014 conference theme was Engaged Learning Making the Promise Real in Real . and what our experiences as administrators and and the Ethos of Discovery – Achieving the Promise Time educators suggests about the individual-level, in a Tumultuous Era. This theme was chosen When the Board and Program Committee began lived experiences of students, faculty, and staff. to connect our member institutions’ continuing the planning for the 2016 Conference in 2015, we The second and third plenaries then examined the commitment to achieving the foundational purposes were struck by the fact that our ability to deliver interplay of these questions across the student identified in the Boyer Commission’s call to reinvent on the opportunities discussed in 2014 would lifecycle – from programs designed to build a more undergraduate education at America’s research depend on elevating a subtheme of that conference diverse and accomplished pipeline through degree universities to several cascading sets of changes to a position of central importance: the effects of completion and preparation for meaningful careers that were making the second decade of the diversity, culture, and identity. We concluded that and life-long learning. The fourth, and concluding, 21st century a truly tumultuous period in higher we needed to promote a far more broadly shared plenary shifted the focus to macro-level institutional education. The first changes, which were analyzed understanding of the impact of culture and identity characteristics and posed the central administrative in the first two plenaries and the following breakout on the lived experiences of diverse populations of question: What would an institution that does these sessions, were generating cascading pressures to students, faculty, and staff. The problem was not things well look like? innovate. The second and third sets, which were that we weren’t seeing extraordinary examples of discussed in the third plenary and breakouts, grassroots initiatives and educational innovations involved a cascade of new knowledge and tools. across our campuses based on the new research Dr. Alan Lamborn Since the Boyer Commission report in 1998, there and new tools, because we were. The problem Executive Director, the had been an explosion of new knowledge on was that these initiatives and innovations were Reinvention Collaborative robust, integrative, and self-regulated learning; on too often not being connected in ways that were Associate Provost for Educational intellectual and personal maturation; and on other mutually reinforcing across the student lifecycle Attainment Professor of Political Science areas such as persistence to graduation. These from matriculation to completion and that too many Colorado State University research findings were increasingly supported by a of them were not designed to take into account companion explosion in analytics and advising tools the breadth of human differences across varying Dr. Mike Mullen that helped us understand where individual students cultures and identities. President and Board Chair, The were in real time and gave us the capacity to reach Reinvention Collaborative That conclusion led to the decision to make the Vice Chancellor and Dean for out proactively – if we could fully understand the 2016 conference theme Diversity, Culture, and Academic and Student Affairs tools’ capabilities and limitations and if we could Identity in America’s Research Universities and Professor of Soil Science train the tools’ users to use them in informed, to organize the plenaries and breakout sessions North Carolina State University effective, and ethical ways. The last consideration around research-based initiatives that promote 1 Conference Schedule Thursday, November 10 8:00-3:00 UVP Network Meeting – Studio B 3:30-5:30 Specialized Network Meetings Salon 6 Advising and Academic Guidance Elizabeth Guertin, Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Indiana University-Bloomington Vanessa Harris, Director of University Advisement, University of New Mexico

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