Conference on 'Undergraduate Research and Scholarship and the Mission of the Research University' November 14-15, 2002

跨学科（99）这个项目是支持为期两天的全国会议“本科生研究和奖学金和研究型大学的使命”在纽约州立大学斯托尼布鲁克再造中心。会议将于2002年11月14日至15日举行，将汇集大学教师、管理人员和学生，以及学科协会、政府机构和私人基金会的代表，集中讨论研究型大学所固有的基础、制度、文化和学术问题。这些问题必须得到解决，如果研究型大学要最大限度地发挥其潜力，并把研究，奖学金和创造性活动的最前沿的本科教育，他们提供，在博耶委员会的报告，“教育本科生在研究型大学。“会议的重点是研究型大学更广泛的目标：（1）界定和阐明本科教育的愿景，建立在他们的研究使命的基础上，并与之协同作用，以及（2）为实现这一愿景制定合理的预期，使其影响到大量学生。理解本科生研究的作用和实现更广泛参与的机制是实现这一目标的第一步目标.在努力将研究注入本科教育的过程中，那些在研究型大学担任领导角色的人面临着同样的问题和挑战，这些问题和挑战围绕着他们更大的改造努力。因此，会议重点放在本科生的研究提供了一个具体的和可管理的方式来解决这些问题。

Interdisciplinary (99)This project is supporting a two-day national conference on "Undergraduate Research and Scholarship and the Mission of the Research University" at the Reinvention Center at SUNY Stony Brook. The conference, which will take place on November 14-15, 2002, will bring togetheruniversity faculty, administrators, and students, as well as representatives of disciplinaryassociations, government agencies, and private foundations, to focus on fundamental, institutional,cultural, and academic issues that are inherent to research universities. Such issues must beaddressed if research universities are going to maximize their potential and bring research,scholarship, and creative activity to the forefront of the undergraduate education they offer, asenvisioned in the Boyer Commission report, "Educating Undergraduates in the ResearchUniversity." Underlying the conference focus is the broader goal for research universities: (1) todefine and articulate a vision of undergraduate education that builds upon and is synergisticwith their research mission, and (2) to develop reasonable expectations for implementing thisvision so that it impacts significant numbers of students.Understanding the role of undergraduate research and mechanisms for realizing broaderparticipation is a first step toward this goal. In their efforts to infuse research into theundergraduate education, those in leadership roles in research universities confront thesame panoply of issues and challenges that surround their larger efforts at reinvention. Thusthe conference focus on undergraduate research provides a concrete and manageable way toaddress these issues.