A Reflection on a Paid Virtual Undergraduate Research Experience to Bolster Transfer Processes and Pathways

• In Event: Tackling Transfer: Community Colleges, Summer Melt, Rurality, and Public Universities

Abstract

We propose undergraduate research (Chamely-Wiik et al., 2021) as an avenue that can engage undergraduate students (prospective or current transfer students) and bolster their success toward completing a baccalaureate degree. Prospective transfer students’ responses post-participation in a paid virtual summer research experience included reflections on how the undergraduate research experience allowed them to take charge of their own research projects, find support through their instructor and peers that became instrumental to their success, and expanded their horizons on what they can do with research.

Authors

• Keisha Varma, University of Minnesota
  Non-Presenting Author

• Tai Tri Do, University of Minnesota
  Presenting Author

• Crystal Lee-Thao, University of Minnesota
  Non-Presenting Author

• Yue Zhang, University of Minnesota
  Non-Presenting Author