This work was conducted as part of the NIMBioS QuantBio@Community Colleges Working Group, supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF award DBI-1300426, with additional support from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. We thank the other members of the working group for valuable discussions: Ahrash Bissell, Linda Grisham, Lou Gross, Kristin Jenkins, Vedham Karpakakunjaram, Suzanne Lenhart, Claudia Neuhauser, Christianne Nieuwsma, Tony Weisstein, and Greg Wiggins. We are also grateful to all of the CC faculty who participated in our study. Finally, we thank two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments.
