Program Goals

• Cultivate Native Hawaiian and underrepresented minority students’ involvement in URE by removing barriers to research and creative opportunities. Universal Design language? 

• Support faculty, reward, and provide mentorship resources

• Assist with securing funding for projects and external conferences. 

• Facilitates high- quality curricular and co-curricular opportunities at the College and its partners.

• Tracks and assesses all URE activities and program data 

• Fostering growth of undergraduate research and creative scholarship across campus

• Serving as a central URE resource for all students, mentors, programs, grants, and departments college, and other CC programs. TCUP, MI, HSBC

• Integrate existing support and Provide students with academic, career, and professional skills development workshops and resources. 

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URE Definition

Definition

Undergraduate research experiences (UREs) are faculty-community mentored projects that promote student learning by investigating a topic where the outcome is unknown to students or faculty. URE projects use approaches, methods, and analysis appropriate to the discipline, such as—but not limited to—the scientific method, engineering design process, statistical analysis, creative scholarship, and literature research methodologies. UREs provide students with essential workforce and life-long learning skills such as collaboration, problem-solving, critical thinking, creative thinking, and communication.

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Examples of UREs include:

• Research that incorporates oral traditions, cultural practitioners, and other forms of indigenous knowledge and practices

• Course-based undergraduate research experiences(CURE), Research-Intensive (RI) courses, and research courses such as SCI 295/HUM 295

• Mentored research as part of a larger project or program, such as grant programs, summer bridges, student programs, RIO clubs, community-based research, and Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program (REU);

• Creative scholarship such as dance, theater, art, and creative writing;

• Student-centered research such as independent studies and honors projects;

• Employer-based research such as internships, co-ops, and apprenticeship

• Design challenges and competitions.

• Capstone project

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Adapted from the American Association of Community Colleges

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