Long View of Undergraduate Research

Kristine Johnson is Associate Professor of English and University Rhetoric Director at Calvin University, USA, where she teaches writing, writing pedagogy, and linguistics.J. Michael Rifenburg is Professor of English at the University of North Georgia, USA, where he serves as Senior Faculty Fellow for scholarly writing in UNG’s Center for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership.

• 1. What Alumni Can Teach Us 2. Undergraduate Research as Inquiry 3. Undergraduate Research as Belonging 4. Undergraduate Research as Vocation 5. What Alumni Taught Us Coda: Undergraduate Research 20 Years Later

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, USABy 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