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Ethnography of the University Initiative

The Ethnography of the University Initiative EUI (www.eui.illinois.edu) engages students in research on what they know and care about: their own universities. Student work is public and preserved, housed in a dynamic on-line archive designed to encourage future generations of students to build on past student research. EUI guides students to think about colleges and universities in relation to their communities as well as in national and global contexts. EUI researchers reflect on their findings to identify concrete ways that the University can better fulfill its many missions. EUI leads students to become engaged citizens, actively and critically contributing to public life.
To view more undergraduate research at Illinois:
Undergraduate Research - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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This collection examines ways in which the U.S. university and the American college experience are affected by diversity, and difference. In particular, these student projects examine experiences of diversity on campus, ...
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This collection examines the influence of globalization on the university and the university's place in a burgeoning world market for higher education.
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The university offers an extraordinary opportunity to study and document student communities, life, and culture. This collection includes research on the activities, clubs, and durable social networks that comprise sometimes ...
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This collection examines student learning both in and beyond the classroom.
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Posters and Presentations from EUI Students
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This collection appreciates and investigates the meanings and impact of new technologies on students' social lives, learning, and group formation.
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This collection of student research interrogates the relationships between the university and the local community.
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Projects in this collection explore institutional growth and change as seen in the histories and practices of university units and programs.
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This collection documents the experiences of those who are employed by the university.
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(2018-09-20)Every day, UIUC students decide regarding the type of transportation they will use to get to class. Whether they decide to walk, drive, bus, or bike to class depends on their accessibility to those forms of transportation, ...
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(2018-09-20)Researching individual characteristics of students that indicate successful personal finance skills led our research team to learn about undergraduate college student use of credit cards at the University of Illinois at ...
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(2018-09-20)Public institutions like the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana are largely funded through public means via government support and charitable donations such as alumni contributions. Within these universities, ...
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(2016-12)The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is not only known for its academic reputation, but for its wide array of social opportunities for students. The city of Champaign allows nineteen year olds to enter bars, and ...
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(2016-12)This paper examines the amount and quality of research students perform before making a major purchase. Many students are inexperienced when it comes to choosing off-campus living arrangements and make uninformed decisions. ...
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