UAGC Announces the 2021 University Fellows Program Winners (UFP)

 

Greetings Readers, Faculty and Students,

 We are excited to announce the grant winners of the 2021 University Fellows Program (UFP).

All full-time faculty members engage in appropriate levels of scholarly activity, and the UFP is an opportunity to acquire additional support for such work. Each year $100,000 is allocated to supporting faculty research and scholarship. This year’s UFP proposals were a competitive group that represented the collaborative efforts of University of Arizona Global Campus scholars across departments, programs, and colleges.  Proposals represented key funding priority areas of retention and student success with 25% of 2021 funding allocated towards High Impact Practices (HIPs) research.  We have again exceeded prior years’ efforts in being able to fund 15 grants. These grants will be used to support research efforts that will further improve the quality of teaching and learning here at UAGC. Opportunities to hear about progress and findings for each of these studies will be available throughout 2021, so be on the lookout for future invitations.

 Special thanks to each faculty member who submitted a proposal for the 2021 University Fellows Program.   Each proposal helps to elevate the University Fellows Program and identify it as a valuable example of UAGC’s commitment to student success. We are pleased to announce the following proposals have been selected as University Fellows Program 2021 Awardees.  Please extend your congratulations to the following researchers: 

 

Primary Investigator (PI)	Team Member(s)	Title of Project	College of PI
Connie Lower	Stacy Manning, Nathan Pritts	UAGC Cohort Jumpstart	College of Arts & Sciences
Hwangji Lu	Robert Smiles	Quality Improvement in Online Course Design: A Case Study	College of Arts & Sciences
Hwangji Lu	Robert Smiles	Collaborative Project and ePortfolio: The Impacts of High-Impact Practices on Online Learning*	College of Arts & Sciences
Sonja Bethune	Mingzhen Bao, Nathan Pritts, Marc Hyntka, Christopher Foster	Live Learning: Supplementing Asynchronous Courses with Synchronous Web Meetings*	College of Arts & Sciences
Jennifer Robinson	Stacy Manning, Diane Hilbrink, Kathryn Kleypas, Cathlene Dollar, Benjamin Sorenson	Live Learning as a requirement of asynchronous first-year experience: Themes and understandings from student responses *	College of Arts & Sciences
Dan Tinianow	Marc Hnytka	Immersive experiences for student engagement	College of Arts & Sciences
Jennie Walker	Brandy Havens, Gwendolen Stutler, Maja Zelihic	Bridging the motherhood penalty: Identifying the specific challenges working mothers face in completing their education and advancing their careers and strategies to support their success	Forbes School of Business & Technology
Peggy Sundstrom	Jennifer Robinson	Evaluating the Use of Doctoral Writing Coaches to Enhance Doctoral Student Retention and Success: A Pilot Study*	Forbes School of Business & Technology
Jennifer Zaur	Dr. Amy Johnson, Dr. Allison Rief	The Role Scaffolding Plays in Student Success and Faculty Satisfaction	College of Arts & Sciences
Cheri Ketchum	Chelsey Yeats, Daria LaFave, Elaine Phompheng	Interaction or engagement: What do our students really want?	College of Arts & Sciences
Holly Ourso		Live Learning Mathematics	College of Arts & Sciences
Stephanie Anderson	Kim Cowan, Bill Davis	Constructing CARE in the Online Setting: Perceptions and Experiences of Compassion, Acknowledgement, Respect, and Encouragement in the Classroom	College of Arts & Sciences
Teresa Handy	Dr. Tamecca Fitzpatrick	Walk the Talk	College of Arts & Sciences
Christopher Foster	Clifford Blizard	The Impact of Experiential Learning in the Asynchronous Online University Classroom*	College of Arts & Sciences
Shari Schwartz	Pamela Murphy	The Use of Digital Badges to Enhance Student Engagement and Retention	College of Arts & Sciences
Allison Rief	Teresa Kuruc, Matthew Phillips Matthew, Kim Cowan	The Power of One: Flexibility as a Specialized Need for Non-Traditional Student Success	College of Arts & Sciences
Karen Ivy	Tahereh Daneshi, Lisa Sims, Michael Hayden, Shavon Andrews, Myinn Cohen, Karrie Suess	Student Organization Involvement with Matched Mentors and Mindsets: Creating a Culture of STEM Leadership	Forbes School of Business & Technology

 

*The Office of Research and Creative Scholarship would like to thank the UAGC High Impact Practices (HIPs) Committee for their review and support of the 2021 UFP researchers. The HIPs committee endorsed the following research projects that have a direct alignment to HIPs and a clear impact on student retention through the HIPs model:

·         Collaborative Project and ePortfolio: The Impacts of High-Impact Practices on Online Learning

·         Live Learning: Supplementing Asynchronous Courses with Synchronous Web Meetings

·         Live Learning as a Requirement of Asynchronous First-year Experience: Themes and Understandings from Student Responses

·         Evaluating the Use of Doctoral Writing Coaches to Enhance Doctoral Student Retention and Success: A Pilot Study

·         The Impact of Experiential Learning in the Asynchronous Online University Classroom

 The HIPs Committee and ORCS also commend and celebrates the following HIPs faculty champions:

o   Julie-Ann Adkins,

o   Sonja Bethune (PI),

o   Clifford Blizard,

o   Cathlene Dollar,

o   Christopher Foster (PI),

o   Teresa Handy,

o   Stephanie Heald,

o   Diane Hilbrink,

o   Marc Hyntka,

o   Kathryn Kleypas,

o   Hwangji Lu (PI),

o   Stacy Manning,

o   Nathan Pritts,

o   Allison Rief,

o   Jennifer Robinson (PI),

o   Latisha Shipley,

o   Robert Smiles,

o   Benjamin Sorenson,

o   Peggy Sundstrom (PI)

o   Jessi Upshaw

 

Regards,

Dr. Iris Lafferty, Dr. Pamela Murphy, Dr. Murad Abel, Dr. Mingzhen Bao, and Dr. Newton Miller

Office of the Provost and Office of Research & Creative Scholarship