Person Team: Developmental Education

Ohio Strong Start in Science: Removing Barriers in STEM

A laboratory classroom with a group of female science students working. The classmates are discussing work, and debating ideas and opinions. This architecture is well designed and versatile, allowing for changing demands in this education space. There is a whiteboard with mathematic equations on it, behind the positive animated group. The women are of differing ethnicities.

Introductory science courses too often function as bottlenecks rather than gateways to high-demand STEM and health careers. Ohio Strong Start in Science seeks to transform introductory science courses to help more students succeed on their first attempt.

Hollie Daniels Sarica

Hollie Daniels Sarica is a research associate at CCRC. Her research interests include students’ college and career readiness, access, and …

Julia Raufman

Julia Raufman conducts qualitative research on instructional reform in developmental education, teaching and learning, student support services, student success courses, …

Thomas Brock

Thomas Brock became the director of the Community College Research Center in September 2018, bringing more than 25 years of …

Elizabeth M. Kopko

Elizabeth M. Kopko is a senior research associate at CCRC. She conducts quantitative and qualitative research on a variety of …