Research
KC Culver's research focuses on helping campus stakeholders design and implement policies, programs, and practices that support the meaningful participation and success of students and faculty. She focuses on the academic mission of higher education, emphasizing the importance of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility that supports student learning and success, as well as institutional effectiveness.
FACE Project
The purpose of the Faculty, Academic Careers and Environments (FACE) project, funded by the National Science Foundation, is to understand who faculty are, what their academic careers look like, and how the environments in which they work shape their ability to thrive as instructors and/or researchers.
Designing Professional Development for VITAL Faculty
Scaling Support for Contingent STEM Faculty through Learning Communities and Design Teams is a project that aims to help campus teams provide support, particularly related to professional development, to aid the increasing number of non-tenure track faculty (NTTF) who lack the institutional support to provide a quality learning environment for students in STEM.
The Delphi Project on the Changing Faculty and Student Success
The Pullias Center’s Delphi Project is dedicated to enhancing awareness about the changing faculty trends using research and data to better support faculty off the tenure track and to help create new faculty models to support higher education institutions in the future.
PASS Project
The PASS Project, also known as the Thompson Scholars Learning Communities (TSLC) Study, is a project that seeks to explore, document and better understand whether a comprehensive college transition program at three University of Nebraska campuses, translates into greater student success.