Collaborative Research: A Research Hub for Understanding Inter- and Intra-institutional Partnerships that Systematically Support Low-income Engineering Students

The objective of the ROPES Hub (Research on Organizational Partnerships in Education and STEM) is to advance understanding of organizational partnerships that support academic pathways for domestic low-income engineering, computer science, and computing students. Partnerships across the education system are essential to improve STEM; achieving the systematic, structural, or sustainable change desired by the S-STEM program is seldom achieved by individual isolated units and often requires partnerships across silos within an academic institution (intra-institution partnerships) and across institutions (inter-institution partnerships). We conduct cross-cutting research and build research capacity and by supporting a new community of practice among current and past S-STEM grant holders who focus on establishing, maintaining, and sustaining these key partnerships.