HomeBlogUndergraduate Research Mentoring Magic: Mentored Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts by Jessie L. Moore and Nolan SchultheisSeptember 2, 2024 Share: Section NavigationSkip section navigationIn this sectionPodcasts – Home 60-Second SoTL Limed: Teaching with a Twist Making College “Worth It” Land Acknowledgement Making College “Worth It” – Season 2, Episode 1 Dawn Whitehead and Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, two of the co-editors of Mentored Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts: Integrated High-Impact Practices for Student Success, join our podcast to talk about the intersection of these high-impact practices. We explore topics like accessibility, challenges, and the benefits of mentored undergraduate research in global contexts (whether local or abroad!) for student learning and development. View a transcript of this episode. Meet our Guests Dawn Michele Whitehead is the Vice President of the Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers at the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Whitehead has written and presented nationally and internationally on global learning, community-based learning, and curricular change. She has co-facilitated working groups on mentored undergraduate research in global contexts and directs the Institute on Engaged and Integrative Learning. Whitehead is an inaugural member of the Institute for International Education’s National Academy for International Education and serves as the vice-chair of the board of directors for The Forum on Education Abroad. She earned her PhD from Indiana University, Bloomington. Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler is Director of the Center for Research on Global Engagement (CRGE) and a professor of psychology at Elon University. A developmental psychologist, Maureen studies early childhood learning in sociocultural contexts and global learning and mentoring in higher education. In addition to her work as a teacher-scholar-mentor at Elon, Maureen has taught off-campus short-term courses and semesters abroad, including in London, Florence, Copenhagen, and Hawai’i. Maureen is a co-editor of the AAC&U publication Mentored Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts: Integrated High-Impact Practices for Student Success (2024) and the Council on Undergraduate Research’s edited collection Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research (2018). Episode Credits This episode is co-hosted by Jessie L. Moore, Director of Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning, and Nolan Schultheis, a second-year student at Elon University, studying Psychology with an interest in law. Nolan Schultheis also edited the episode. Making College “Worth It” is produced by Elon University’s Center for Engaged Learning. Episode art was created by Nolan Schultheis and Jennie Goforth. Funky Percussions is by Denys Kyshchuk (@audiocoffeemusic) – https://www.audiocoffee.net/. Soft Beat is by ComaStudio. Explore Resources Related to this Episode Whitehead, Dawn Michele, Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, Susan Buck Sutton, Mary F. Price, Kate Patch, and Kris Acheson, Eds. 2024. Mentored Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts: Integrated High-Impact Practices for Student Success. American Association of Colleges and Universities. Facilitating Integration and Reflection of the Elon Experiences The Facilitating Integration and Reflection of the Elon Experiences (FIRE2) Toolkit is intended to foster students’ self-reflection and mentoring conversations with peers, staff, and faculty in order to deepen students’ Elon Experiences. Every Elon University undergraduate student is required to… Salient Practices Following an extensive review of the literature on mentoring undergraduate research, ten salient practices emerged which support effective mentoring of undergraduate researchers. These practices can be used to develop a mentoring pedagogy of high quality. Crossing Borders at Home Making College “Worth It” – Season 1, Episode 10 In this episode, we visit with Amanda Sturgill, Associate Professor of Journalism at Elon University, who co-edited Mind the Gap: Global Learning at Home and Abroad. She shares strategies for facilitating global… Salient Practices of Mentoring Undergraduate Research Making College “Worth It” – Season 1, Episode 6 In this episode, we visit with Helen Walkington, Professor of Higher Education at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and Eric Hall, professor of exercise science at Elon University, about the salient practices… Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts 60-Second SoTL – Episode 45 This week’s episode shares an open-access article from New Directions in Teaching and Learning and examines how U.S.-based colleges and universities support mentoring of undergraduate research in global contexts: Cruz, Laura, Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, Eric E. Hall, Amy L….
