Our Projects
CoIL currently houses the following major research projects.
Enhancing Diversity in Career and Technical STEM (EDiCTS)
Funded by ECMC Foundation, EDiCTS is designed to enhance diverse student recruitment, retention, graduation, and entry in the automotive technical workforce.
EmPOWERment
The EmPOWERment Project is funded by a five-year multi-million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation. This project uses mixed methods to evaluate the experiences and learning outcomes of graduate students enrolled in a novel trans-disciplinary STEM program.
Interfaith, Spiritual, Religious, and Secular Campus Climate Index (INSPIRES)
INSPIRES is a collaboration between Dr. Matthew J. Mayhew (The Ohio State University) and Dr. Alyssa N. Rockenbach (North Carolina State University). This assessment tool measures, evaluates, and represents an institution’s efforts towards, and commitment to, establishing a welcoming climate for students of different worldview identities. This project is funded by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, an organization committed to courageous multi-faith efforts.
Including Faculty on Religious, Spiritual, & Secular Mattering (InFORM)
InFORM seeks to capture information on faculty religious, spiritual, and secular (RSS) identification patterns and examine how the expression of RSS beliefs of faculty working in American colleges and universities shape their teaching, research, and service. This project is funded by the Templeton Religion Trust.
Interfaith Research Clearinghouse
The Interfaith Research clearinghouse is intended to serve as a central location for empirical work examining how we can harness educational opportunities in college to enhance relationship-building and cooperation for students of very different religious, secular, and spiritual identities (RSSIs).