1st Edition
Designing and Implementing a Successful Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Program
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Series Foreword
Jenny Olin Shanahan, Bridgewater State University
Gregory Young, Montana State University
Foreword to the volume
Ken O’Donnell, Vice Provost, California State University Dominguez Hills
Editor-in-Chief, Experiential Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Chapter 1: The importance of undergraduate research, scholarship and creative activity
Chapter 2: So you want to start an undergraduate research office?
Chapter 3: Staffing and office structure
Chapter 4: Ready, set, go! Goals for the first year
Chapter 5: Finding funding to support students, mentors and your programmatic needs
Chapter 6: Beyond the lab/studio/archive: professional development support for student researchers from across the disciplines
Chapter 7: Facilitating the mentor/mentee relationship
Chapter 8: Top down, bottom up: Tenure, promotion, and other faculty and mentor support strategies
Chapter 9: Navigating institutional bureaucracy: risk management, research supplies, travel, and other administrative concerns
Chapter 10: Getting the word out to students
Chapter 11: Assessment and educational research
Chapter 12: Scaling up access and reducing barriers to undergraduate research: course-based undergraduate research experiences and faculty mentor development
Chapter 13: Intersecting impact: aligning meaning-making for undergraduate researchers
Chapter 14: Resources to Engage in the Community of URSCA Scholars and Practitioners
Bibliography and Additional Readings
Index
Biography
Dr. Holly E. Unruh is Executive Director of the Arts Research Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She previously served as Associate Director of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center at California State University, Monterey Bay.
Dr. Heather Haeger is Research Director of the STEM Learning Center at the University of Arizona, and Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies and Practice. She served as the inaugural Assessment and Research Coordinator for the Council on Undergraduate Research from 2016 to 2020.
Dr. John E. Banks is Director of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center at California State University, Monterey Bay.
Dr. Winny Dong is Faculty Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research at Cal Poly Pomona and Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering.
