KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Description/Abstract
Leveraging Campus-Wide Initiatives to Grow Student Scholarship
Quality Enhancement Plans, redesigns of general education programs, or mandates to assess the value of undergraduate education are great opportunities to create programs that actively engage students in scholarly work. Undergraduate research, once thought of narrowly as science-based research that produced publications and led to graduate school, is now seen as a model high-impact activity that allows students to apply their academic knowledge to a variety of challenges. Dr. Usher describes how campuses can capitalize on campus-wide initiatives to build or enhance undergraduate research programs to be inclusive of students, disciplines and outcomes.
Introduction: Rick Schell, Vice President and Executive Chief of Staff
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Key West - AB
Leveraging Campus-Wide Initiatives to Grow Student Scholarship
Quality Enhancement Plans, redesigns of general education programs, or mandates to assess the value of undergraduate education are great opportunities to create programs that actively engage students in scholarly work. Undergraduate research, once thought of narrowly as science-based research that produced publications and led to graduate school, is now seen as a model high-impact activity that allows students to apply their academic knowledge to a variety of challenges. Dr. Usher describes how campuses can capitalize on campus-wide initiatives to build or enhance undergraduate research programs to be inclusive of students, disciplines and outcomes.
Introduction: Rick Schell, Vice President and Executive Chief of Staff