LibraryC3 Cultural system3b Status and parity
LTI-CUL-013
Engage transfer students in presenting digital research portfolios to faculty
Two-year to four-yearappliesFour-year to two-yearwith adaptationFour-year to four-yearwith adaptation
Mechanism
Community college students present research portfolios to panels of faculty from both institutions. University faculty who watch it stop repeating the line about community college rigor.
Preconditions
Portfolio assignments built into foundational pathway coursework.
Owner, by role
Pathways Program Director / Department Chair
Who can act
Both institutions jointly
Effort
Medium, 6 months to first visible effect
Outcome metric
Transfer student confidence scores; entry into university honors programs
Failure modes
Showcase events can fail to shift faculty culture if university department chairs do not attend or if student participation is low.
Contra-indications
None stated