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ISBN: 9781032701271

Expected November 2024

We define undergraduate research, argue for the importance of theorizing with undergraduate researchers, and outline the argument of the book: undergraduate research is a practice that meaningfully and even uniquely promotes intellectual inquiry, a sense of belonging during college, and vocational clarity and lifelong learning after college. Institutions that invest in undergraduate research and researchers can better fulfill their objectives and their missions. After telling our own undergraduate research stories, we finally outline our research commitments for the book: they will advocate for access, take the long view, balance panoramas and portraits, center student voices, and embrace complexity 

Discussion Questions

  1. How is undergraduate research formally or informally defined on your campus?  
  2. If you are a former undergraduate researcher, how did the research experience inflect your personal or professional life? If you are an undergraduate research mentor, has that experience inflected your personal or professional life?  
  3. What are your commitments as a researcher in higher education, and what commitments might you add to the list of five in this chapter?