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Scholarship Learning Communities (UNI-017)

Summary 🟡 ✓

  • Owner Unit: Office of Research Services / Academic Affairs
  • Sub-unit: Scholarship Learning Communities (ORS)
  • Content Type: program
  • Campus/Location: Multi-campus
  • Last Verified: August 21, 2026

Description & capabilities

ORS Scholarship Learning Communities convene faculty cohorts around shared research and creative-practice themes to build methods capacity, collaboration, and proposal readiness.

FY 2026 (second) cohort topics (ORS Annual Report FY 2026): - Open Science in Practice: Tools and Workflows for Transparent, Reproducible Research - Healthy Aging in the United States - Social Media Video for Public Engagement - Virtual Reality (VR) for Interdisciplinary Research

Fall 2026 (third) cohort topics (same source): - Agentic Computing Across Disciplines: Transforming Research and Creative Practice - Can We Trust the Data? Reasoning About Evidence Across Disciplines - Conducting Mixed Methods Research in the Social Sciences - Global Creative Collaboration Lab: Language, Power, and AI in Creative Practice Across Borders

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Verification

  • Status: confirmed (✓)
  • Confidence: 90/100
  • Rationale: ORS Annual Report FY2026 (Chief of Staff submission) documents SLC cohorts and topics as ORS programs.
  • Last verified: 2026-08-21
  • Evidence:
  • ORS Annual Report FY2026 overview — Scholarship Learning Communities (sources/inbox/2026-08-19-annual-report-2026/uploads/ORS_Annual_Report_2026.pdf)

Equipment

ORS scholarly community program; no dedicated equipment inventory.

Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

Documented Relationships

Sibling ORS capacity programs with UNI-001 (ORS/TTO) and UNI-018 (Research Faculty Mentor Program). VR cohort topical adjacency to UNI-015 / COM-001 XR spaces; open-science cohort adjacency to UNI-011 Library research support (not claimed as shared facilities).

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Notes

Promoted 2026-08-21 from packet 2026-08-19-annual-report-2026 (Lauren Miller / ORS Chief of Staff). Quote: second cohort launched with four 2026 topics; third cohort begins Fall 2026 with four additional topics (sources/inbox/2026-08-19-annual-report-2026/uploads/ORS_Annual_Report_2026.pdf).