Fostering a departmental culture of undergraduate research: A five-year case study

<p> Presentation given at the Council on Undergraduate Research Biennial Conference, Alexandria, VA.</p><p> <a href="https://www.cur.org/assets/1/7/CUR_2018_Program_Final1.PDF" target="_self"> Program </a></p><p> Malachowski (2017) has argued that the most significant barrier to undergraduate research is departmental culture. This session will present the results of a five-year case study of an initiative to promote a culture of undergraduate research in a department at an R3 doctoral university. Topics to be discussed will be couched in Malachowski&rsquo;s (2017) recommendations and include start-up and sustaining funding sources, obtaining faculty buy-in, faculty workload and promotion and tenure considerations, administrative organization and management, student recruitment, project resources, and products/outcomes. Both successes and failures will be highlighted.</p>