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Collaboratory Research Fellows explore research and programmatic efforts that enact Collaboratory’s mission and support member institutions and the broader field of higher education community engagement. Fellowships are designed to give practitioner-scholars a national platform to pursue research and programmatic ideas that correlate with ongoing Collaboratory initiatives.
Fellows lead projects that typically last 6-12 months and utilize de-identified data from Collaboratory institutions, or pursue relevant ideas and questions in partnership with campuses within and beyond our membership. Fellows receive a research award to support their efforts. Funds may be used for any expense judged supportive of the fellow’s research including staffing, conference/presentation support (e.g., registration fees), project expenses, equipment, or salary support.
Collaboratory is open to working with any researchers – whether faculty, staff, or students at an accredited institution of higher education or member of the larger community. We expect the fellow to have experience with or expertise in community engagement.
Dr. Kuttner has 15 years of experience in community-campus partnerships. A qualitative educational sociologist, his scholarship focuses on relationships between educational institutions (K-12 and postsecondary) and communities marginalized by our education systems. Paul currently serves as the Associate Director at University Neighborhood Partners at the University of Utah, where he leads the evaluation team.
Fellowship Focus:
Dr. Kuttner and his colleague Dr. Erin Clouse will leverage Collaboratory data to conduct a mixed methods study examining outcomes and impacts of community engagement in higher education and how they are conceptualized, measured, and facilitated across institutions. The study will contribute to a baseline understanding of current practices and inform how institutions systematically measure and increase the impact of engagement.
This fellowship is jointly hosted with the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities.
Dr. Smith is the Associate Director for the Minority Achievement, Creativity, and High-Ability (MACH III) Center and an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Counseling at Prairie View A&M University. Her scholarly interests focus on the experiences of faculty and administrators of color in higher education; diversity, equity and inclusion of underserved populations in higher education; and P–20 educational pipeline alignment
Fellowship Focus:
Dr. Smith worked on developing an “anti-racism scorecard” that can help institutions recognize and identify community-engaged anti-racist work and intentionally incorporate anti-racism work into engagement efforts across campus.
Jessica is the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) & Beyond Task Force Coordinator at Arizona State University’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. In this role, she co-creates strategy and execution of projects related to the SDGs with an emphasis on driving tech-based green growth which scales now and beyond 2030.
Fellowship Focus:
Jessica’s work explored the intersection of higher education community engagement with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals to inform how institutions can better incorporate the SDGs into engagement efforts across campus.
Matt is the technical project manager in the Office of Community Partnerships at the University of Washington Tacoma. His background is as a software developer, working at several Seattle-area startups before moving back to Academia. Matt’s graduate work centered on applying cloud-computing solutions and automating processes to collect voluntarily generated spatial data and aggregate them through a pre-defined logic model
Fellowship Focus:
Matt is identifying new algorithms and methods for assessing the strength of relationships between internal and external partners using Collaboratory data. Matt’s work will identify common characteristics of ‘strong’ relationships, with the goal that practitioners can promote them in new and emerging partnerships.
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