Description:
Drawing from in-depth interviews with alumni across the disciplines, this book explores the benefits of undergraduate research: meaningful intellectual engagement, a sense of belonging in the campus community, and vocational clarity and career success after college.
Review Quotes:
This book, with its qualitative focus, provides an excellent addition to the research literature on the value of undergraduate research. As a college administrator and faculty member at a church-affiliated institution, I was especially drawn to the undergraduate research as vocation chapter. Career preparation remains an important outcome of undergraduate research, but I was excited to read examples in this chapter of how undergraduate research also developed students' passions, interests, and callings. This book is an enjoyable read and valuable for anyone wanting to enhance mentoring and undergraduate research programs.
Susan Larson, Provost and Dean of the College; Professor of Psychology, Concordia College, USA
By focusing on the lived experiences of recent alumni of undergraduate research, this book provides a refreshing new perspective on the impact of undergraduate research, emphasising a long view of research as partnership. By concentrating on graduates from the humanities and social sciences, the stories about the process of inquiry, undergraduate research as belonging, and undergraduate research as vocation complement previous work. This is a well-written book, full of insights, that I strongly recommend.
Mick Healey, Healey HE Consultants, UK