Who Is Part of Campus Change? Promoting Equity-Based Teaching and Student Success Through Research-Practice Partnerships

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium brings together researchers and administrators involved in campus change efforts for equitable teaching and student success. We aim to spark robust discussion about innovative and systemic approaches to fostering change. Using the framework of research-practice partnerships (RPPs), we will provide preliminary results from a new national study of effective change strategies across the postsecondary landscape. We then share four case studies of campus collaboration, discussing methodological approaches, balancing theory with practice, institutionalizing change, and multi-institutional partnerships. These examples, which illustrate both the promise–and pitfalls–of collaboration, will frame a discussion in which we ask about the possibilities afforded through research-practice partnerships, barriers to effective and sustained collaboration, and the stakes of failing to build new partnerships for campus transformation.

Sub Unit

• Division J - Postsecondary Education / Division J - Section 4: Faculty, Curriculum, and Teaching

Chair

• Lindsay Jarratt, University of Iowa

Papers

• Reconceptualizing Organizational Policies and Structures: A Policy Playbook for Systemic Levers that Support Equity-Based Teaching - Corbin M. Campbell, American University

• Walking a Tightrope between Too Much Research or Too Much Practice in Student Success Initiatives - David J. Nguyen, Ohio University

• A Possibility Model for Course Evaluations - N Tennessen, University of Iowa

• Using Ethnography in a Campus Change Team - Lindsay Jarratt, University of Iowa; Casey E. Wright, University of Iowa; Eva Latterner, University of Iowa

• The More the Merrier: Creating Multi-Institutional Research and Practice Partnerships - Renata Opoczynski, Michigan State University

Discussant

• Jodi Linley, University of Iowa