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How can learning contracts support more equitable undergraduate research mentoring? This episode features an open-access article that explores how learning contracts can operationalize equity in undergraduate research mentoring by centering shared expectations, partnership, and transparency:

McSweeney, Jill M., and Eric E. Hall. 2026. “The Use of Learning Contracts as Potential Equity Blueprints in Undergraduate Research Mentorship.” Teaching & Learning Inquiry 14: 1–10. https://doi.org/10.20343/teachlearninqu.14.4

This episode was hosted, edited, and produced by Jessie L. Moore, Director of the Center for Engaged Learning and Professor of Professional Writing & Rhetoric.

60-Second SoTL is produced by the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University (https://www.centerforengagedlearning.org/) .

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