Vision

Students are empowered as researchers and advocates through the use of data to create more equitable communities.

Values

  • Equity: identifying oppressive systems, policies, and people, centering marginalized voices, promoting social justice, and framing the conversation through an intersectional perspective. 
  • Education: data literacy, policy literacy, introducing the complexity of ideas and expanding methodologies through interdisciplinary collaboration, providing students with research experiences and developing their scholarly identities. 
  • Civic and Community Engagement: building relationships with community organizations and government agencies and combining their perspectives with public data analysis to create more effective policies. 

Mission

  • To counter oppressive policies and practices, especially those that disproportionately impact marginalized people.
  • To advocate for equitable and evidence-based policies that elevate community voices and concerns. 
  • To use higher education's research infrastructure to benefit the community. 
  • To provide and rich interdisciplinary experience to students in their education. 
  • To develop a collaborative cycle of research and community engagement.
  • To analyze and anticipate how policies impact target populations
  • To promote public scholarship, transparency, and accountability. 

Associated Courses

CU Denver

  • CRJU 5430 - Drugs, Alcohol and Crime
  • CSCI 5800 - Big Data Systems
  • ETST 3211 - Hip Hop Music & Culture
  • HDFR 3020 - Black and Latino Children in Families and Schools
  • HDFR 3100 - Adolescent Ecology
  • HDFR 4300 - Families in Later Life
  • HDFR 7260 - Family Diversity and Social Justice
  • MATH 2830 - Introductory Statistics
  • MATH 4387/5387 - Applied Regression Analysis
  • MATH 4394/5394 - Experimental Designs
  • MATH 4779/5779 - Math Clinic
  • MATH 4830/5830 - Applied Statistics
  • MATH 5320 - Introduction to Mathematical Statistics
  • MATH 5490 Network Flows
  • MATH 5593 Linear Programming
  • MATH 6384 - Spatial and Functional Data Analysis
  • MATH 6388 - Statistical and Machine Learning
  • MATH 7594 - Integer Programming
  • PUAD 5004 - Economics and Public Finance
  • PUAD 5008 - Evidence-Based Decision-Making
  • RSEM 7140 - Management and Secondary Analysis of Large Datasets
  • SOCY 3020 - Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.

Metropolitan State University Denver

  • EDS 1001 - Educational (In) Equality in the 21st Century
  • MKT 4300 - Social Media Marketing
  • MTH 4290 - Senior Statistics Project
  • SOC 4710 - Advanced Qualitative Methods

Outcomes

  • Data Literacy: Depending on their course, participants will learn and apply techniques in statistics, data cleaning, analysis, and visualization.
  • Public Policy Literacy: Depending on their course, participants will learn and apply techniques such as policy analysis, effectiveness, equity, cost, feasibility, and assessment.
  • Civic Engagement: Participants will be able to present their findings to public officials and dialogue with them about how best to address the problems identified.
  • Curriculum Integration: Participating faculty and instructors volunteer their existing courses and learning outcomes to engage with local community needs.
  • Interdisciplinary Work: Students and faculty participants from multiple disciplines will have the opportunity to see each other’s presentations, learn from each other, and potentially collaborate on future proposals.
  • Professional Communication: Much like a professional research poster session, student teams will design and present their proposals at the D2P Symposium. Participants will learn how to clearly communicate complicated ideas to a general audience.

Participating Institutions