Transforming Undergraduate Research at Canadian Universities
Undergraduate research has a well-established tradition and history within Canadian higher education, even as institutions have struggled to meet the challenge to ensure that all undergraduate students have an authentic, high-impact research experience ov
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International Perspectives on Undergraduate Research
Nancy H. Hensel • Patrick Blessinger Editors
International Perspectives on Undergraduate Research Policy and Practice
Editors Nancy H. Hensel Laguna Woods, CA, USA
Patrick Blessinger International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association New York, NY, USA
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Foreword to International Undergraduate Research
From the United States to the United Arab Emirates, undergraduate research (UGR) is capturing and maintaining the focused attention of university faculty, administrators and especially of students. International Undergraduate Research demonstrates why. The thinking required by, and developed through, UGR is valuable not only to those within the university, but increasingly to employers and politicians who want graduates with the capacity to solve issues of current concern to society, entrepreneurs who craft whole new ways of working in the world. There are common challenges across the book’s chapters of inadequate university budgets and lack of country-wide mandate, but the diversity of approaches to deal with these and other issues is a big illuminating feature of the book. For example, numerous chapters view UGR in terms of its capacity to build disciplinary knowledge and Makhanya emphasises the need for UGR knowledge development to align to national socio- economic challenges a
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