Expanding Faculty Conceptions of Who Can Do Research: Facilitating Organizational Change Through Faculty Change Agency

• In Event: Fostering Learning, Data Use, and Action for Organizational Change

Abstract

Evidence suggests post-secondary institutions sustain and reproduce racial, ethnic, gender, and socio-economic biases that continue to subvert equitable student access and outcomes in higher education. This paper details initial steps taken at a striving minority serving institution funded to enact institutional change through (in part) a faculty learning community of research mentors in STEM. We document our initial strategies to support reflection in recruitment and development of undergraduate student researchers with STEM faculty. Managing change within institutional contexts is dynamic, and will involve negotiation and re-negotiation as faculty change agency continues to evolve.

Authors

• Derrick Swinton, Kean University

• Dina Rosen, Kean University

• Sarah Hug, Colorado Evaluation & Research Consulting

• David Joiner, Kean University