Council on Undergraduate Research
Hope College is recognized for the extent and quality of undergraduate research ɫɔ and for national leadership in promoting undergraduate research for student learning, personal development and successful outcomes.
Hope faculty were among the founding members the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) in the 1980s. Hope College became an inaugural institutional member of CUR. Hope faculty have won national elections by their peers to serve as CUR Councilors.
CUR can help you:
- Get started in research with undergraduates
- Improve your effectiveness and productivity as a scholar
- Develop funding sources
- Develop leadership skills
Because Hope College has an enhanced institutional membership to CUR, every Hope faculty member is eligible for free membership to CUR.
- Membership Benefits
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CUR membership provides the following benefits (some are free; others require financial support from Hope College):
- , for example:
- Beginning a Research Program Institute
- Broadening Participation Institute
- Creative Inquiry in the Arts and Humanities Institute
- Proposal Writing Institute
- , for example:
- CUR Quarterly
- ɫɜHow Toɫɝ Series, e.g, How to Mentor Undergraduate Researchers
- A Practical Handbook for Supporting Community-Based Research with Undergraduate Students
- Broadening Participation in Undergraduate Research: Fostering Excellence and Enhancing the Impact
- Creative Inquiry in the Arts & Humanities: Models of Undergraduate Research
- Developing & Sustaining a Research-Supportive Curriculum: A Compendium of Successful Practices
- Faculty Support and Undergraduate Research: Innovations in Faculty Role Definition, Workload and Reward
- Assessment
- Integrating Research into the Curriculum
- , for example:
- Arts & Humanities
- Broadening Participation
- Community Colleges
- Math and Computer Science
- Becoming aCUR Member
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To sign up for your free CUR membership:
- Create a Choose ɫɜHope Collegeɫɝ as your primary organization
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Log in using existing credentials and go to "My CUR" > "My Account" - On the Overview tab of My Account, select the "Manage My Institutional Relationships" button (at the bottom)
- If you do not show Hope College as a linked insititutional relationship, then "Search All Organizations" for Hope College and link to the organization.
- Select"Manage My Membership"
- Select "Activate Membership Benefits"
- Create a Choose ɫɜHope Collegeɫɝ as your primary organization
Interested in Council on Undergraduate Research?
Visit the website.
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