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The More the Merrier: Creating Multi-Institutional Research and Practice Partnerships

Sun, April 27, 11:40am to 1:10pm MDT (11:40am to 1:10pm MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Terrace Level, Bluebird Ballroom Room 2G

Abstract

Creating productive Research and Practice Partnerships between faculty and administrators is difficult yet can have powerful results (Dee & Leisyte, 2017). Creating partnerships that bridge faculty and administrators across multiple institutions is even more challenging but can be transformative (Dinicola, 2023). While faculty are a key part of successful RPPs, many conversations bridging faculty and student success focus on pedagogy and classroom behavior (D’Andrea & Gosling, 2005).

A senior university administrator with experience building successful RPPs across multiple institutions will share their experience working across faculty, administrators, and students to create strategic change initiatives for student success. They will share numerous experiences, lessons learned, and outline successful strategies for implementation of strategic student success initiatives. They will share how they have worked to create data-informed strategic initiatives that are built from research conducted by faculty collaborators and how they have partnered with faculty to identify needs, test solutions, and assess success and efficacy. They will also share how they have brought faculty into the student success conversations on campus and engaged them as key partners in the work.

They will specifically share a case study on creating a Transfer Student Success initiative across their institution and their local community college. Through this illustrative example they will share how they built collaboration and buy-in across faculty and administrators at two different institutions where priorities were not aligned within or across the institutions and mistrust was prevalent. They will share how they worked through those challenges to create an aligned pipeline program and increase curricular partnerships. They will also share about the cross institutional student support program that was designed through partnership between faculty researchers and administrators to meet the unique needs of the students.

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