Call for Submissions for Fall 2010 issue, "How UR Supports Faculty & Student Development"

The theme of the Fall 2010 CUR Quarterly will focus on ‘How UR Supports Faculty & Student Development’.  We seek 4 or 5 authors who can write articles that focus on the co-benefits of undergraduate research for both faculty and students. UR is a collaborative effort, requiring the involvement of both students and faculty members. Both students and faculty benefit from the experience. Faculty research agendas are sometimes transformed by their UR engagement.

We encourage articles that explore, among other things:

• How faculty members have benefited from working with student researchers;
• How UR can contribute positively to faculty development, how it can inform teaching and research, how it can keep faculty active and happy and engaged;
• Designing research experiences in ways appropriate to different stages of student development;
• How students have benefited from exposure to students conducting research in disciplines different from their own; and
• The benefits institutions have experienced when their students have presented their research at venues such as NCUR or a regional or national professional conference.

If you are interested in submitting an article, please submit one or two paragraphs describing the focus of your proposed article by February 1, 2010. Decisions on invitations for full papers will be made by February 15.

Final articles will be about 2500 to 3000 words in length. The final text for review and editing must be submitted by April 1, 2010.

Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested in submitting an article.

Deadlines

February 1, 2010               One or two paragraph description of article sent to Kelly McConnaughay (kdm@bradley.edu) and Janet Stocks(jstocks@bw.edu)

April 1, 2010             Final text for review and editing submitted to Kelly McConnaughay (kdm@bradley.edu) and Janet Stocks(jstocks@bw.edu)

Kelly McConnaughay
Editor-in-Chief
CUR Quarterly

Janet Stocks
Issue Editor
CUR Quarterly