College Impact Laboratory (Coil) At The Ohio State University company information, Employees & Contact Information

College Impact Laboratory (CoIL) consists of a team of higher educator researchers interested in college and its influence on students. Physically located at The Ohio State University, the lab serves as a convening space for educators to learn about college impact as a research domain, with members feeling empowered to use empirical work to articulate arguments, voice opinions, and innovate toward building college improvement strategies. It is our hope that CoIL sustains a productive dialogue – extending the reach of the empirical good work done by college impact researchers and administrators in and beyond the field of higher education. Our current projects include: Drive to Thrive: Funded by ECMC Foundation, Drive to Thrive 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 trans-disciplinary STEM program. Interfaith, Spiritual, Religious, and Secular Campus Climate Index (INSPIRES): 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. 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.