Welcoming
Remarks and Introduction
Research universities need to make a
concerted effort to evaluate, articulate, communicate and promote widely
the unique benefits or "value-added" undergraduates derive from
an educational model that has research, scholarship and creative activity
at its core.
Breakout Sessions 1: Challenges
in Implementing Undergraduate Research and Scholarship
The challenges to implementing undergraduate research are
partly institutional in character, but also vary by discipline. The conference
has time periods for parallel breakout sessions that will explore Institutional
and Disciplinary Challenges. During these periods, participants will be
able to choose a session that speaks directly to their interests. There
will be some overlap across sessions in institutional topics. Each
breakout group will be asked to produce one or two recommendations or
strategies that the Center and individual institutions can use to build
a framework of 'next steps' in enhancing the role of undergraduate research, scholarship
and creative activities.
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A. Institutional Challenges
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B. Disciplinary Challenges
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Across
the disciplinary spectrum, developing the infrastructure to support
an undergraduate education linked to research and scholarly activity
represents a major institutional challenge. A related challenge is
developing a definition of 'undergraduate research' that encompasses
a range of activities and acknowledges the need for different goals
and outcomes for students at different levels and across all fields.
These sessions will address the ways in which resources specific to
the research university can shape undergraduate research.
- Scaling
up and sustaining successful approaches
Leader:
Susan
Forman,
Professor, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
and Vice President for Undergraduate Education, Rutgers
University
- A
comprehensive approach: Creating a continuum of academic
experiences
Leader:
Ellen Woods,
Senior Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, Stanford University
- Incorporating
disciplinary norms and practices into administrative strategies
Leaders: Daniel
Holliman, Assistant Professor, Department
of Political Science, Maxwell School of Citizenship and
Public Affairs, and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs, Office of the Provost, Syracuse University.
and Edie
N. Goldenberg, Professor of Political Science
and Public Policy, University of Michigan
- Incorporating
graduate student participation
Leaders:
Reed
Wilson, Director, College of Letters and
Science Undergraduate Research Center for Humanities and
Social Sciences,University of California at Los Angeles;
David
Martinez, Ph.D. Candidate in English, University
of California at Los Angeles and
Patricia Pukkila, Associate Professor of Biology and Director, Office of Undergraduate Research,
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill |
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Undergraduate
research and scholarly activity creates a variety of demands on human,
physical and financial resources. These sessions will address, within
broad discipline contexts, such considerations as: goals; disciplinary
requirements; resources needed; using currently untapped resources
(library, research personnel, post-docs, grad students); incentives
for student and faculty participation; blending curricular and extracurricular
approaches; and use of information technology.
- Earth
and Environmental Sciences
Leader: Martin
Schoonen,
Professor of Geosciences and Associate Vice President for
Research, Stony Brook University
- Engineering
Leader: J.
Kim Vandiver, Professor of Ocean Engineering
and Dean for Undergraduate Research, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
- Humanities/Humanistic
Social Sciences
Leader: Barbara
Nolan, Robert C. Taylor Professor of English,
University of Virginia
- Life
Sciences
Leader: William Wood, Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Management
and Applied Social Sciences
Leaders: Gary
Hochberg, Associate Dean for the Undergraduate
Program, John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University
at St. Louis and Andrea
Hershatter, Assistant Dean and Director of the BBA Program, Goizueta Business School, Emory University |
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Roundtable: Connecting Departmental Interests and Actions with Institutional
Goals
Departmental "buy-in" is essential to efforts
at reform. Departments in research universities have great autonomy as
they define curriculum, implement standards, design courses, assign instructors,
reward faculty, provide incentives, mediate between faculty and the administration,
and encourage student interest. Faculty, chairs, deans and provosts will
examine the ways in which departments can build on their inherent strengths
to bring research and creative endeavor to the forefront of the undergraduate
curriculum.
Moderator:
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William
Green, Professor of Religion, Philip S. Bernstein
Professor of Judaic Studies and Dean of the College, University of
Rochester |
Panelists:
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John
Guillory, Professor and Chair of English,
New York University
Robert L. Hampton, Professor of Sociology,
Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean for Undergraduate
Studies, The University of Maryland
Creating
a Culture of Student Inquiry:The Case for Undergraduate Research
Clinton T. Rubin, Professor and Director, Center
for Biotechnology and Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering,
Stony Brook University
Powerpoint
Presentation
Judith L. Smith, Professor of Physiological Science
and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, University of California
at Los Angeles
Powerpoint
Presentation
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Lunch: Presentation on
Undergraduate Research in Research Universities: An AAU Initiative
This presentation will discuss the outcomes
of a pilot project sponsored by the AAU to review the state of undergraduate
research at six research universities. Some institutions have developed
a culture that supports undergraduate research and scholarship, while
others have not. The talk will focus on steps universities have taken
to develop a culture that fosters undergraduate research and scholarship
as an important and valuable enhancement to the undergraduate curriculum.
Breakout Sessions 2:
Challenges in Implementing Undergraduate Research and
Scholarship
(See the description for Breakout Session 1)
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A. Institutional Challenges
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B. Disciplinary Challenges
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- Scaling
up and sustaining successful approaches
Leader: Susan
Forman, Professor, Graduate School of Applied and
Professional Psychology and Vice President for Undergraduate Education, Rutgers University
- Requiring
research competence in the undergraduate curriculum
Leaders: Robert
Thompson,Dean, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences,
Duke University and Lee
Willard,
Associate Dean, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University
- Incorporating
graduate student participation
Leaders: Reed
Wilson, Director, College of Letters and Science
Undergraduate Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences,
University of California at Los Angeles; David
Martinez, Ph.D. Candidate in English, University
of California at Los Angeles and Patricia
Pukkila, Associate Professor of Biology and Director, Office of Undergraduate Research, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- Involving
all of the students some of the time vs. involving some of the
students all of the time
Leaders:
Bruno
Giordani, Associate
Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Michigan
and Sandra
R. Gregerman, Director, Undergraduate Research
Opportunities, University of Michigan
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- Experimental/Data-Intensive
Social Sciences
Leader: Ludy
T. Benjamin, Jr., Murray and Celeste Fasken Chair
in Distinguished Teaching and University Professorship in Undergraduate
Teaching Excellence, Texas A&M University
- Fine/Performing
Arts
Leader: Julian
Olf, Professor
of Theater, Dramaturgy and Directing, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- Mathematics/Computer/
Computational Sciences
Leader: Thomas
F. Banchoff, Professor of Mathematics, Brown University
- Physical
Sciences
Leaders: Jeanne
E. Pemberton,
John
and Helen Schaefer Professor of Chemistry, University of Arizona
and
Glenn Starkman,
Associate Professor of Physics and Associate Provost for the Undergraduate
Initiative, Case Western Reserve University
- Contributing
to the Undergraduate Research Mission: The Library as Laboratory
Leaders: Patricia
Iannuzzi, Associate University Librarian and Director,
Main and Undergraduate Libraries, University of California at
Berkeley and Diane
Harvey, Undergraduate Studies Librarian, University
of Maryland - College Park
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Roundtable: Agents Critical to
Change
Many
agents both within and external to the university affect the way research
universities define and carry out their missions. Funding agencies play
critical roles. This session will bring together individuals from public
and private funding organizations to examine the ways in which their priorities
can inform and be informed by the integration of research and scholarship
into the undergraduate mission.
Moderator:
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Matthew
Santirocco, Professor of Classics,
Angelo J. Ranieri Director of Ancient Studies and Dean of the College
of Arts and Science, New York University |
Panelists:
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Joseph
Bordogna, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation
Peter
Bruns, Vice President, Grants and Special Programs,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Powerpoint
Presentation
Joan Krejci Griggs, Program Officer and Coordinator,
FIPSE Comprehensive Program, U. S. Department of Education.
Stanley N. Katz, Professor, Woodrow Wilson School
and Director, Center for Arts and Culture Policy Studies, Princeton
University, and President Emeritus, American Council of Learned
Societies
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Introduction: Summary of First-Day Activities and Introduction to the Second
Day
Assessment Case Study: The University of Delaware
Powerpoint
Presentation
Video
In 1996, the University of Delaware was granted an NSF Recognition Award
for the Integration of Research and Education (RAIRE) to conduct an extensive,
multifaceted evaluation of its undergraduate research program. In this session,
panelists who advised and/or carried out the study will describe the process
of designing and implementing it, report on its outcomes, and explain how
the study's different facets can be adapted to the needs and interests of
other universities that wish to assess undergraduate research at their own
institutions.
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Moderator:
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Conrado
M Gempesaw, Jr., Vice Provost for Academic Programs,
University of Delaware |
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Karen
Bauer, Assistant Professor, Psychology and Woman's
Studies, Assistant Director, Institutional Research and Planning,
University of Delaware
Joan
Bennett, Professor of English and Coordinator of Undergraduate
Research, University of Delaware
Andrew
Zydney, Endowed Bio-Chair and Professor of Chemical
Engineering, Pennsylvania State University |
Roundtable: Related Assessment Efforts
This session will consider other major efforts to assess
student and faculty participation in undergraduate research in specific
contexts such as the NSF's Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
program and as part of the engineering curriculum. The discussion will examine
a variety of approaches and tools that take into account such factors as
the diversity of the research university student population and individual
institutional and program contexts and goals.
Moderator:
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Gregory
Henschel, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Educational
Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education |
Panelist:
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Marcia
Baxter-Magolda, Professor of Educational Leadership,
School of Education and Allied Professions, Miami University of
Ohio
"The
Measure of Epistemological Reflection" (MER)
Michael
P. Doyle, Professor of Chemistry,
University of Arizona
Powerpoint
Presentation
William
Kelly,
Professor of Civil Engineering, Catholic University
of America, and Chair, Engineering Accreditation Commission, Accreditation
Board for
Engineering and Technology (ABET)
Powerpoint
Presentation
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Lunch: Presentation
on The Engaged University: Integrating Research, Education and Community
Service
Speaker:
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Judith
A. Ramaley, Assistant Director, Education
and Human Resources, National Science Foundation |
Breakout Sessions 3: Assessment
and Future Directions
Participants have a choice of three
concurrent breakout sessions: A) assessment, B) topics following up on
the first day's sessions, or C) proposed disciplinary and resource networks.
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A. Assessment
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sessions on assessment will be led by faculty from the University
of Delaware project, focusing on different phases of the assessment
process and the different types of tools that are appropriate. Participants
can sketch potential assessment plans for programs or projects at
their own institutions. Additional sessions will be led by other experts
using different approaches. |
- Formative
Assessment (no comparison groups) - letters of intent,
student and faculty end-of-term evaluations, faculty survey,
visiting expert, content analysis
Leaders: Joan
Bennett, Professor of English and
Coordinator, Undergraduate Research Program, University
of Delaware and
Said Shokair,
Director, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program,
University of California at Irvine
- Summative
Assessment - Alumni Study (using matched comparison
groups)
Leader: Andrew
Zydney, Endowed Bio-Chair and Professor of
Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
- Getting
Started - Determining appropriate assessment goals,
tools and methods (what questions to ask, populations to
target, qualitative vs. quantitative methods, tools available)
Leader: Karen
Bauer, Assistant Professor of Psychology
and Women's Studies and Assistant Director, Institutional
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- Other
Approaches
Leader:William
Kelly,Professor
of Civil Engineering, Catholic University of America, and
Chair, Engineering Accreditation Commission, Accreditation
Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)
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B. Future Directions
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Based
on outcomes of the first day's breakout sessions, conference leadership
will identify a small number of areas for further discussion.
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C. Disciplinary and Resource
Networks
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Reinvention Center plans to form Disciplinary and Resource Networks
- communities of practitioners addressing mutual interests,
serving as information resources, and seeding further change
by sharing practices and strategies. |
- Disciplinary
Networks: Faculty and disciplinary associations will address
the challenges of 'reinvention' within the context of their
disciplines. Three sessions are currently planned. Groups
made up of faculty in other disciplines will be formed,
based on registration.
The Disciplinary Network Concept
Disciplinary Networks: Literary Studies (English,
Comparative Literature, Foreign Literature, Literary
Studies within other disciplines) - Leader:
Don Bialostosky,
Professor
of English, Pennsylvania State University
Disciplinary Networks: Psychology - Leaders:
Merry
Bullock, Associate
Executive Director, Science Directorate,
American Psychological Association, Bernadette
Gray-Little, Professor
of Psychology and Executive Associate Provost, University
of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and Alan
Kraut, Executive Director, American
Psychological Society
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- Resource
Networks: These will be made up of institutional and/or
national experts addressing specific avenues to supplement
and enrich the undergraduate educational environment. Target
groups in this time slot include research librarians and
teaching resource center directors. Similar meetings of
assessment personnel and undergraduate research program
directors will take place from 3:30-4:45.
Research
Librarians
Leaders:
Diane Harvey,
Undergraduate Studies Librarian, University of
Maryland and
Patricia
Iannuzzi, Associate University
Librarian and Director, Doe/Moffitt Libraries,
University of California at Berkeley
Teaching
Resource Center Directors
Leader:
Sharon
Prado,
founding director of the Undergraduate Research
Opportunities Program (UROP) and founder and executive
director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching,
Boston University
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Action Planning Session
The goal is to help shape
the agenda of institutions, departments, funding organizations and professional
societies as all work toward an environment where anticipation in the act
of discovery becomes the centerpiece of undergraduate education in research
universities. By working together to formulate and promote an educational
model that draws on their distinct characteristics and to communicate the
value of an undergraduate education in this environment, research universities
contribute to realizing a new paradigm for the 21st century.
Moderators:
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Don
Bialostosky, Professor of English, Pennsylvania
State University
Bernadette
Gray-Little, Professor of Psychology and Executive
Associate Provost, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
Resource Network Meetings
- Assessment Personnel
Leader: Janet
A. Schmidt, Director of Engineering
Research, Univesity of Maryland-College Park
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