The arts-based team is focusing on poetic transcription related to partnership trust. See below for a draft of one such poem, using interview transcripts from one PROSPECT site visit. We are using poetic transcription to take the words from a set of interview transcripts from one S-STEM and pare them down, combining the words different S-STEM interviewees said into stanzas, to understand what the collective thoughts and experiences were related to partnership trust. One of the primary sources for understanding partnership trust is a 2010 Amey, Eddy, and Campbell article, which makes the point that trust is a critical component of partnerships, particularly in being flexible and responding to changes.
Later this month we’ll turn our attention to preparing our presentation for the CSCC conference; our arts-based symposium proposal was accepted, and we look forward to sharing less traditional research methods with the CSCC. The symposium will include:
- Cami Monsalve Avedaño will present about the ways the PROSPECT partnership profile reports aligned with de/colonizing principles
- Camilla Morone, Vashti Sawtelle, and Wendy Smith will present how we are understanding partnership trust through poetic transcription
- Frank Dachille and Vashti Sawtell will present research vignettes from using a transfer grid interview tool (along with other data sources) to understand the stories of transfer students.
- Matt Voigt and Sabrina Zarza will share a composite analytic narrative vignette that tells the story of multiple transfer students’ experiences, and how those experiences informed the partnership program.
- PROSPECT advisory board member Vilma Mesa will serve as our session discussant.
Here is a draft poem around trust in partnership:
Foundational Trust: “the big thing is communication”
Constant communication
Is required to sustain the partnership.
We're actually not that far away from each other.
We keep in constant contact with each other.
That constant communication is very very important.
The issues that we had with personnel,
none of us could have anticipated in 2019.
I think the big thing is communication.
Making sure everybody's on the same page
about what the expectations are.
Making sure everything's clear and written down.
This is what the community colleges are expected to do.
This is what the university will do.
This is what we'll provide to you.
This is what we'll provide us is what we're looking for.
These are the rules.
Having that clear communication is big.