Call for Submissions for Summer 2011 issue, "Undergraduate Research and the Tenure and Promotion Process" -- Notice of Extended Deadline to September 24, 2010.

The theme of the Summer 2011 CUR Quarterly will focus on ‘Undergraduate Research and the Tenure and Promotion Process”. We seek 4 or 5 authors who can write articles helpful to CUR members that provide insight on how the tenure and promotion process acknowledges and supports faculty involvement with undergraduate research.

We encourage articles that articulate how undergraduate research is, or can be, valued and recognized as an integral part of the tenure and promotion process. Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to

• structuring T&P guidelines to explicitly address how UR contributes to faculty assessments;
• how incorporating UR into T&P expectations affects faculty workload;
• institutional support necessary to enable faculty members to meet revised T&P guidelines;
• approaches to dealing with changing T&P guidelines for new hires vs. established faculty.
• how university-wide T&P guidelines address faculty mentoring of undergraduate research across disciplines and colleges.

If you are interested in submitting an article, please prepare one or two paragraphs describing the focus of your proposed article.  These paragraphs should be submitted using our online submission form by September 24, 2010. Decisions on invitations for full papers will be made by October 1, 2010.

Final articles will be about 2500 to 3000 words in length. The final text for review and editing must be submitted by November 15, 2010.

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

Deadlines
September 24, 2010    One or two paragraph description of article submitted online at http://cur.networkats.com/members_online/submissions/substart.asp?action=welcome&cid=73

November 15, 2010    Deadline for final text for review and editing.  Directions on how to submit final papers will be sent to authors of the selected articles at a later date.

Kelly McConnaughay
Editor-in-Chief
CUR Quarterly