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Valuing and Supporting Undergraduate Research: New Directions for Teaching and Learning #93
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More About This Title Valuing and Supporting Undergraduate Research: New Directions for Teaching and Learning #93

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The authors gathered in this volume share a deep belief in the value of undergraduate research. Research helps students develop skills in problem solving, critical thinking, and communication and the work of undergraduate researchers can contribute to an institution's quest to further knowledge and to help meet societal challenges. Chapters provide an overview of undergraduate research, explore programs at different types of institutions, and offer suggestions on how faculty members can find ways to work with undergraduate researchers.
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EDITOR’S NOTES (Joyce Kinkead).

1. Learning Through Inquiry: An Overview of Undergraduate Research (Joyce Kinkead)
What do we mean by undergraduate research, and how can a college or university institutionalize undergraduate research?

2. The Boyer Commission Report and Its Impact on Undergraduate Research (Wendy Katkin)
The director of the Reinvention Center describes the sea change occurring in universities as institutions strive to meet the challenges set forth in the Boyer Commission report.

3. Undergraduate Research at the Research Universities (Carolyn Ash Merkel)
Research universities have particular challenges in focusing on undergraduates but also have come up with innovative programs.

4. A Research-Across-the-Curriculum Movement (Mitchell R. Malachowski)
Faculty can do research and enhance their students’ out-of-class learning simultaneously.

5. Undergraduate Research at Two-Year Colleges (Jorge A. Perez)
Research universities do not have the market cornered on undergraduate research, and this chapter describes how community colleges can be beacons of undergraduate research activity.

6. Interdisciplinary Research: The NCUR-Lancy Awards (David F. Lancy)
An innovative partnership to fund undergraduate researchers and their mentors takes a step to encourage interdisciplinary partnerships.

7. What One Faculty Member Does to Promote Undergraduate Research (David F. Lancy)
This chapter offers one faculty member’s story of working with undergraduates and a checklist for others who seek ways to involve undergraduates in their teaching and research.

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