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We thank the chairs of the biology departments who were willing to send our recruitment request to biology instructors within their departments, as well as the instructors who generously agreed to help us recruit community college students. We are also very grateful for the community college students who shared their thoughts with us. We thank Tessa Andrews for earlier feedback on this work and Jeff Schinske, Lisa Corwin, and CC Bio INSITEs for inspiring collaborations between biology education researchers at community colleges and 4-year institutions. Finally, we appreciate Arizona State University’s Biology Education Research Lab for their helpful review of this work. L.E.G. was supported by a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (DGE-1311230) and K.M.C. was supported by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inclusive Excellence grant. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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