Faculty-Student Collaborative Research

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Spring 2022

University 498: Faculty-Student Collaborative Research

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: October 17, 2021

Overview: University 498 stimulates Faculty-Student collaborative research. It creates a course that promotes faculty research and adds value to undergraduate education at CI. Faculty “teach” a course (UNIV 498), as a part of their normal teaching load.  The course incorporates students as active participants in the research process. The faculty member may choose to involve students in an existing research project in which he/she is engaged, or establish an additional project that the faculty member would otherwise not be able to pursue due to time constraints. Spring 2022 sections of UNIV 498 will be taught face-to-face, but given the unpredictability of the COVID-19 pandemic, please consider how your project/class might operate in a virtual environment.

Benefits for Faculty: By combining research with teaching, faculty:

  • Create time to pursue their research in the context of their existing teaching load;
  • Get help with their research from motivated students; and
  • Improve their research productivity.

 Benefits for Students:

  • Students learn by doing: through an introduction to important research puzzles in the field; through the application of sophisticated modes of observation, analysis, and creation; through exposure to advanced literature; improving their written and oral communication skills;
  • Students may develop tangible products and skills that make them more attractive to employers;
  • May consider pursuing graduate degrees through exposure to research;
  • Research skills, conference participation, and even publications may make students more attractive to graduate programs.

Benefits for CI: Faculty-Student collaborative research helps to distinguish CI as a place where students can be active participants in the creation of knowledge.

Eligibility: All full-time tenure-track and lecturer faculty members at CSU Channel Islands are eligible to submit a proposal for this competition. Up to four faculty members will receive awards for Spring 2022. 

Proposal Elements: Please prepare a proposal (no more than 4 pages double-spaced, exclusive of bibliography and budget) that addresses the following:

  1. Title. What is the title of your project?
  2. Explain your research project. Briefly explain the nature of your research. Please be sure to cast your explanation in terms that can be understood by a non-specialist. Citations to the literature are encouraged.
  3. What is the project’s central question?
  4. In what medium will you work (e.g., primary historical documents, laboratory experiments, empirical observation, music, studio arts)? Please also comment on how you would transition your project to a virtual setting if necessary?
  5. What modes or methods of inquiry will you employ?
  6. What are your expected findings?
  7. How will students be incorporated into your research project? Please be specific about the tasks that they will be assigned as part of your research. What insight into the research process do you anticipate students will get from their participation? How many hours per week will students work on your project? (To provide three credits, students must be involved in 9 hours work per week, on average.) How will that be distributed between group/individual meetings and independent work?
  8. Benefit to you. How will incorporating students into the research project contribute to your own research agenda?
  9. Dissemination. Beyond presenting the research on campus, how do you plan to disseminate this research?
  10. Acknowledgement. How will the efforts of the students be acknowledged in your research (e.g., co- authorship on papers, acknowledged in paper)?
  11. Budget and Justification. At this time there no additional funding for UNIV 498 courses is available, please draft a modest project budget that includes items that would make a significant difference to your project if they were available. Project budgets will help Academic Affairs understand the full cost of undergraduate research and help us to promote full funding in the future.
  12. Chair Approval. Secure an email from your Program Chair expresses support for your proposal, confirming that you have reviewed this proposal with him or her and have discussed the impact teaching a UNIV 498 course will have on overall program workload. You will upload a copy of this email as part of your proposal.

Institutional Review Board Approval. Research involving human subjects must obtain IRB approval.  If your project involves research on human subjects (including students in classes you teach), your proposal should be submitted to the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and be reviewed before the start of your UNIV 498 course. Information about the IRB approval process can be obtained from of Research and Sponsored Projects website; https://www.csuci.edu/irb/. Questions about IRB may be addressed to Scott Perez in the Research and Sponsored Programs Office.

Conditions of Acceptance: If your project is accepted for inclusion you will be required to:

  1. Encourage UNIV 498 students participate in a Student Research Lunch during the semester (or later semester);
  2. Encourage students to present at the CSUCI Student Research Conference;
  3. Engage in 1-2 discussions during the Semester with all UNIV 498 faculty to informally discuss issues related to your collaborative research experience;
  4. Work with the Director of Student Research to write-up a brief report on the UNIV 498 experience that will be used to promote undergraduate research and help to refine the UNIV 498 concept.

 Proposal Submission

Submit Your Proposal 

Deadline: The deadline for submission is 11:59pm on Sunday, October 17, 2021.

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