IDS 401 research fellows faculty projects

Strategic Planning for Community Partners

Spring 2024, Fall 2024

Students in the course will learn to apply various strategic skills and tools to understand the Economic, Political, Social, and Cultural situation in the East Valley communities served by the Polytechnic Campus.

Groups will be organized into a business structure with a leadership team coordinating student research. This leadership team will develop an overall report that combines the work of all the teams into a report. The leadership team will be chosen by an interview process with the entire cohort. Student groups will present the results of their analyses at the CISA Showcase at the end of the semester.

Each team will conduct research on the economic, social, political, and cultural capacities and vulnerabilities. The teams will meet weekly to learn about the techniques they will use and how to conduct the research to complete it.  Students will also meet weekly to conduct real-time collaborative analytical sessions that will provide them with experience using various structural brainstorming techniques.

• Complete the application form.
• Provide your resume.
• Students will need to be highly engaged and committed to this project. 
• All concentrations are accepted.