Survey on Undergraduate Research and Creative Inquiry

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As the Provost Innovation Fellow for Cross-College and Undergraduate Research, I am interested in finding out what activities are going on right now on campus that we can enhance and celebrate, and what more Baruch can do to foster research and creative inquiry across the college among our undergraduates. Research and creative inquiry projects could include a variety of practices conducted by undergraduates involving collecting and analyzing information, solving problems, making arguments, and/or producing something original. Such projects could include collecting data, using archival or primary sources to make arguments, solving business problems, conducting surveys, doing experiments or lab work, analyzing texts or artifacts, conducting interviews or oral histories, conducting fieldwork, investigating some aspect of the city, creating a business plan, proving a theorem, creating a financial model, preparing a legal brief, translating a text, programming, composing music, engineering a design, writing a work of fiction or poetry, creating art, etc. This work can then be communicated in various oral, written, or visual forms. I'm excited to discover all the exciting work our students are already doing under your mentorship and to envision how to expand this work. Thank you for completing this survey and please contact me if you have any questions or suggestions: Katherine Pence, History, Katherine.pence@baruch.cuny.edu

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1. Do you teach any classes that require undergraduate students to do research-based or original creative inquiry projects?

Yes (skip to question 2)

I have in the past, but no longer do. (skip to question 3)

I do not, but would be interested in integrating this more into my classes.(skip to question 4)

I'm not sure whether my assignments qualify as "research" or "creative inquiry." (skip to question 5)

I don't think such activities would work in my classes. (skip to question 6)

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2. If you answered "yes" please give course numbers and/or titles of classes in which your students do research or creative inquiry projects and describe those project assignments briefly. Then skip to question 7.

3. If you answered "I have in the past, but no longer do," please describe what made you stop integrating research and creative inquiry projects into your courses, including a description of barriers to doing this type of work with students. You may also add lists of courses and assignments that you have done in the past that involved research or creative inquiry. Then skip to question 7.

4. If you answered "I do not, but would be interested in integrating this more," please describe what kind of research or creative inquiry projects you would like to include in your classes and explain what you would need in order to develop these assignments. Then skip to question 7.

5. If you answered "I'm not sure whether my assignments qualify," please describe activities or assignments that you have in your classes that you think might qualify as research or creative inquiry. Then skip to question 7.

6. If you answered "I don't think such activities would work in my classes," please explain why research or creative inquiry projects would not work in your classes.

7. Have your students ever participated in Critical Inquiry Day?

Yes

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8. Have your students ever participated in the International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR)?

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9. Have you ever attended Creative Inquiry Day or the International Conference of Undergraduate Research?

Yes, Creative Inquiry Day

Yes, the International Conference of Undergraduate Research

Yes, both.

No, my students participated but I couldn't go.

No, I had no students participating and I didn't go.

No, I didn't know these events were happening.

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10. If you have any experience with Creative Inquiry Day or the International Conference of Undergraduate Research, please describe what you thought of these events, including what was beneficial and what could be improved.

11. Have you been an advisor for a student's honors thesis?

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12. Have you worked with an undergraduate on an independent study that involved research or creative inquiry?

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13. If you have worked individually with a student, what was good about that experience and what needed to be improved?

14. Have you involved undergraduates in your own research?

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15. If you have involved undergraduates in your own research, please explain how you have done this.

16. If you have not involved undergraduates in your own research, please explain why not.

17. Do you have any research assignments or activities that you think have been successful and you would be willing to share with other faculty at Baruch in a workshop? If so, please list those activities here.

18. What do you think Baruch College should do to make it more possible for instructors to work with students on research and creative inquiry?

19. What do you see as the greatest barriers to working with students on research and creative inquiry? (check all that apply)

Class sizes are too big.

Students need better skills.

Grading burden is too much.

Not enough professional development for creating research assignments.

Assigning research-based projects takes away necessary time from conveying content or teaching other skills.

Workload credits given to instructors for independent studies is too low.

Not sure how to do it.

Lack of support for these efforts at the college.

Lacking resources (such as lab equipment or databases) for effectively teaching research.

Students not interested.

Faculty not interested.

Lack of opportunities to showcase research achievements.

Lack of stipend or other support for students pursuing research projects.

Other:

Thank you for completing the survey!

If you have any further comments or questions, please contact Kathy Pence at Katherine.pence@baruch.cuny.edu.

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