Fostering Equitable Transformation: Leading Structural and Cultural Change for Curricular Scaffolding

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to our institutional partners whose remarkable outcomes are reported in detail in Malachowski et al. (2024). We are appreciative of the 24 consultants on the project, with special thanks to John Barthell, Elizabeth Eich, Rosalie Richards, and Roger Rowlett, whose thoughts on institutional agency helped shape this article.

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Funding

This work was supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through an NSF-DUE-IUSE grant (#16-25354) to the Council on Undergraduate Research, under the leadership of the authors. The views presented in this article do not necessarily reflect those of the NSF. 

Notes on contributors

Jeffrey M. Osborn

Jeffrey M. Osborn ([email protected]) served as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and is Professor of Biology at The College of New Jersey. He is a Past President of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) and is an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, a CUR Fellow, and an Associate Editor for the American Journal of Botany.

Jillian L. Kinzie

Jillian L. Kinzie is Associate Director of the National Survey of Student Engagement at the Center for Postsecondary Research, Indiana University Bloomington. She conducts research and leads project activities on effective use of student engagement data to improve educational quality and is a coauthor of Delivering on the Promise of High-Impact Practices (2022).

Kerry K. Karukstis

Kerry K. Karukstis is the Ray and Mary Ingwersen Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Harvey Mudd College. She received the American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution, is a Past President of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), a Past Chair of the ACS Committee on Professional Training, and is an ACS Fellow and CUR Fellow.

Mitchell R. Malachowski

Mitchell R. Malachowski is Professor of Chemistry at the University of San Diego. He is a Past President of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) and is heavily invested in assisting institutions in building excellent undergraduate research programs. He was the 2014 Center for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Carnegie Foundation California Professor of the Year and is a CUR Fellow.

Elizabeth L. Ambos

Elizabeth L. Ambos served as the Council on Undergraduate Research’s Executive Officer in Washington, DC, from 2012 to 2019. She has held academic administrative positions and faculty status in the California State University system and is a coauthor of The Cambridge Handbook of Undergraduate Research (2022).