Traditional postsecondary education is making progress on embracing the diversity of student backgrounds and experiences while preparing them for the demands of STEM careers. Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are effective tools to concurrently achieve many student and faculty goals: facilitating training of students, building career competencies, generating publishable research results and enabling research experiences where students apply their knowledge and interest. Georgia State University is not unique with a high student demand for research experiences and mentors that is greater than traditional research faculty labs can accommodate. Georgia State University is, however, unique in that it is a demographically diverse campus which serves minority and non-traditional students (i.e., second career and veterans) and is also rapidly growing. Therefore, to enhance the microbiology curriculum and facilitate authentic research experiences for the growing number of biology majors, a cluster of course-based research experiences in microbial ecology was developed. A former research lab space was converted to a collaborative teaching lab to serve the growth in course offerings, as well as to accommodate multiple microbial ecology research projects occurring in the same space. The courses offered appeal to students, build on the strengths of faculty experiences, and facilitate collaboration amongst students and with the greater Atlanta community. To ensure that our CUREs are accessible to the diverse students in our department, we addressed a variety of logistical and curricular challenges. Solutions to such challenges align with the goals of the university to offer research and signature experiences to ensure students are included and trained in STEM skills.

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通过微生物生态学课程的研究经验吸引大量的城市本科生

传统的中学后教育在拥抱学生背景和经历的多样性方面取得了进步，同时为STEM职业的需求做好了准备。基于课程的本科研究经验（CURE）是同时实现许多学生和教师目标的有效工具：促进学生的培训，建立职业能力，产生可发布的研究结果以及在学生运用其知识和兴趣的情况下提供研究经验。佐治亚州立大学并不是独特的，它对学生的研究经验和导师的需求比传统研究学院实验室所能容纳的要高。但是，佐治亚州立大学的独特之处在于，它是一个人口众多的校园，为少数民族和非传统学生（即 第二职业和退伍军人），并且还在迅速增长。因此，为了增加微生物学课程并为越来越多的生物学专业学生提供真实的研究经验，开发了一系列基于课程的微生物生态学研究经验。以前的研究实验室空间已转换为协作式教学实验室，以服务课程的增长，并容纳同一空间中发生的多个微生物生态研究项目。这些课程对学生具有吸引力，它利用教师经验的优势，并促进了学生之间以及与更大的亚特兰大社区之间的合作。为了确保我们系中的不同学生可以使用我们的CURE，我们解决了各种物流和课程方面的挑战。