ARIS Broader Impacts Project Special Issue of JCES is Online!
Posted On: 11-18-2024
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Don’t miss the Fall 2024 special issue “ARIS Broader Impacts Toolkit” in the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship (JCES).
This special edition is the result of a two-year effort to identify, pilot, and publish scholarly research about the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF’s) Broader Impacts (BI) criterion and its role in community engagement. Led by the members of the Center for Advancing Research Impacts in Society’s (ARIS), participating institutions worked to build capacity in their researchers to better develop BI projects, including those that enhanced their engagement with local communities. The Fall 2024 issue highlights the outcomes and recommendations of contributing institutions as they investigated BI resources and frameworks for building the research impact capacity of researchers and institutions.
The ARIS BI Toolkit is a collection of online, interactive tools focused on the generation of BI activity plans that satisfy the criteria of proposals submitted to the NSF. The BI Toolkit includes a set of ARIS Guiding Principles, a Planning Checklist, the BI Wizard, and the BI Rubric. The ARIS BI Toolkit was pilot-tested with BI professionals located within ten institutions across the U.S. Toolkit resources are designed to help jumpstart productivity in proposal writing action.
This issue discusses the development of the ARIS BI Toolkit, its evolution through usability testing, a description of the BI Toolkit as it currently exists, and goals for future expansion.