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Strength in Numbers: A New Model for Undergraduate Research on Hot Topics in Criminal Justice and Public Health

Wed, Nov 16, 2:00 to 3:20pm, Hilton, Port, Riverside Complex

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

This panel describes an alternative to President Obama’s 2009 STEM initiative (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). Drawing on the strength in numbers project that daisy-chains multiple undergraduate classes together to create datasets involving thousands of respondents, we present information and analysis covering both results and research-teaching methodologies developed by and with undergraduates at the City University of New York (CUNY). Our goal is to advance the knowledge on key areas of urban criminal justice research such as drug use, harm reduction, fear of crime, and the intersection of sexuality and mass incarceration, while also providing a blueprint for scholar-teachers seeking to deliver high quality research training to students in the social sciences who might never have the opportunity for the type of competitive professional research apprenticeships that are at the core of Obama’s STEM initiative. By democratizing scientific research training, we hope to provide the basis for a more participatory and cost efficient scientific pedagogy that fulfills the research potential of the majority of students and faculty at teaching institutions where research money is rare, lab apprenticeships are underfunded, and time for research and scholarly output is restricted.

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