Journal article
The Power of Partnerships: Field Experiments for Translational Impact in Higher Education
Community college journal of research and practice
12/29/2025
DOI: 10.1080/10668926.2025.2609109
Abstract
As support for higher education practice and research retracts and campuses seek ways to adapt, we encourage community college leaders and scholars to look to one another and embrace partnerships to advance campus and student success. Randomized field experiments, long at the crossroads of ideological struggles in education, offer a unique opportunity to impact research, practice, and policy. We offer partnerships as a tool to bridge the field experiment divide and move forward with a both/and thinking approach. Drawing on insights from our longstanding collaboration, we elaborate on a field experiment done in partnership as an example of aligning institutional and research goals to advance policy and practice with ethical intentionality and efficiency. In doing so, we argue for the potential of field experiments without falling into purist ideals of causal analysis as a panacea for solving higher education’s problems or dismissing them altogether for their shortfalls and challenges.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Power of Partnerships: Field Experiments for Translational Impact in Higher Education
- Creators
- Katharine M. Broton - University of IowaMilad Mohebali - University of Nebraska–LincolnKathleen B. O’Neill - Bunker Hill Community College
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Community college journal of research and practice
- DOI
- 10.1080/10668926.2025.2609109
- ISSN
- 1066-8926
- eISSN
- 1521-0413
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Grant note
- Bunker Hill Community College's Hunger TeamBoston and Kresge Foundations
We extend our sincerest thanks to Drs. Sara Goldrick-Rab and Pam Eddinger for establishing the partnership that led to the authors' longstanding collaboration. We appreciate the work of Bunker Hill Community College's Hunger Team that created the environment for and welcomed the opportunity to conduct a field experiment with financial support from the Boston and Kresge Foundations. Finally, we thank the BHCC students who continue to inspire and motivate us.
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 12/29/2025
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Educational Policy and Leadership Studies; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9985116070202771
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