Research
As an R1 institution (very high research activity) and a member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, data and research are core tenets of any UCI endeavor. UCI’s Compass initiative combines data and analytics from the research initiatives below to identify gaps in the success of our various student populations and create strategies around closing those gaps, furthering our mission as a Minority Serving Institution.
UCI Research Initiatives
PERI²
Created in 2022, PERI² (pronounced “perry squared”) is an interdisciplinary research institute dedicated to fostering equitable student success. PERI² supports both research and implementation of evidence-based interventions, instructional practices and policies in college and university settings.
The Collaboratory for Student Success™
The Collaboratory for Student Success™ harnesses the power of people and data to drive breakthrough innovations across our institution. By breaking down traditional campus silos, the Collaboratory ensures our educational practices, interventions and policies support our students in the most meaningful ways.
FATE
The UCI Faculty Academy for Teaching Excellence (FATE) highlights the contributions of faculty that have a demonstrated record of creating learning environments that foster the growth of all students, have continued to develop their pedagogy by participating in professional development opportunities, and have been recognized by their peers as model educators.
MUST
The UCI MUST Project is a pilot demonstration site in the School of Education to identify the potential of collecting and sharing innovative forms of data that present researchers and stakeholders with new opportunities to delve deeper into improving institutional performance and advancing educational science.
Partners
Unizin is a member-based nonprofit that enables higher education to meet the moment of digital transformation by developing and delivering solutions that address the pressing and complex challenges of data, analytics, and digital content.
The FGLI Consortium provides leadership, expertise, and resources around the experience of first-generation and/or lower-income college students at highly-selective universities and colleges.
The American Talent Initiative seeks to substantially expand access and opportunity for talented, low- and moderate-income students at the nation’s colleges and universities with the highest graduation rates.
The Boyer 2030 Commission – The Equity-Excellence Imperative is a 2030 blueprint for undergraduate education at U.S. Research Universities.
UCI’s Collaboratory for Student Success leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer a scalable, secure and flexible environment for researchers and campus stakeholders to collaborate. AWS solutions allow us to examine and optimize institutional data and use analytics to make data-driven decisions that support teaching and learning, and improve equity and access to digital resources.
Focusing on equity and inclusion as metrics of success, SEISMIC accelerates and enhances efforts to improve large foundational STEM courses across a collaboration of institutions enrolling more than 60,000 new students per year.