Based on an extensive review of literature on Undergraduate Research mentoring, Jenny Olin Shanahan, Elizabeth Ackley-Holbrook, Eric Hall, Kearsley Stewart, and Helen Walkington (2015) identified ten salient practices of mentoring that offer undergraduate researchers intellectual, personal/emotional, and professional socialization support….

By Eric Hall Early one morning a few weeks ago, I was perusing LinkedIn because I was having trouble falling back to sleep after one of my children woke up early and needed consoling. While I was scrolling through my…

by Sophia Abbot The reality of intensive pedagogical partnership programs is that there will always be more willing and capable students than there is room to partner. On a mathematical level, this makes sense. There are far fewer faculty at…

Steeped in  critical race theory (CRT), Yosso’s (2005) work presents a helpful framework for recognizing the capital that HURMS bring to a mentored relationship, more specifically the undergraduate research (UR). In applying CRT, Yosso expands the default assumptions around cultural…

There are numerous articles, studies, and discussion pieces outlining the benefits of the undergraduate research (UR) experience for students. For example, Madan and Teitge (2013) suggest that UR amplifies the knowledge gained by the student in the classroom. They also…

by Eric Hall This past fall I had the opportunity to attend and present with multiple colleagues at The Forum on Education Abroad European Conference and the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Conference about undergraduate…

Nineteen years ago I was in the middle of my first year serving as head resident advisor (HRA) to an almost entirely first year residence hall. As the HRA I was responsible for organizing and providing monthly professional development for…

One of the most powerful experiences of my undergraduate career was spending a summer writing and researching with Dr. Alison Cook-Sather. While the official job title was “research assistant,” I was doing much more than supporting Dr. Cook-Sather’s ongoing work…

In my last post, I argued that course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) can be a stepping stone for a student’s path toward mentored undergraduate research, but to yield equitable impact for historically underrepresented minority students (HURMS), CUREs must include mentorship…

Undergraduate research (UR) has been called a high impact practice because of its importance in student engagement and success (Kuh, 2008). To achieve these benefits, high quality mentoring is necessary, however little research has investigated this UR mentoring. In an…