Two-Year Community: Cultivating the STEM Transfer Pathway and Capacity for Research: A Partnership Between a Community College and a 4-Year College

by: Rachel A. Hirst, Gilles Bolduc, Louis Liotta, and Becky Wai-Ling Packard

Summer research experiences have been identified as important vehicles for fostering the learning, skill development, and retention of undergraduates in the sciences. In the initiative described in this article, community college faculty and students partnered with private 4-year college colleagues on summer research to expand the capacity for research for community college faculty and to cultivate a STEM transfer pathway.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 3/1/2014Stock # jcst14_043_04_12Volume 043Issue 04

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