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

跨学科(99)该项目支持在纽约州立大学石溪分校的再创造中心举行为期两天的“本科生研究和奖学金与研究型大学的使命”全国会议。这次会议将于2002年11月14日至15日举行，届时将汇集大学教职员工、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固有的基本、制度、文化和学术问题。如果研究型大学要最大限度地发挥其潜力，并将研究、学术和创造性活动带入他们提供的本科教育的前沿，这些问题就必须得到解决，正如博耶委员会报告中所设想的那样，“在研究型大学教育本科生”。会议的焦点是研究型大学的更广泛的目标：(1)定义并阐明建立在研究使命基础上并与其研究使命协同的本科教育愿景，以及(2)为实施这一愿景制定合理的预期，以使其影响到大量学生。了解本科研究的作用和实现更广泛参与的机制是迈向这一目标的第一步。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职务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创新努力。以本科生研究为重点的会议为解决这些问题提供了一种具体和可管理的方式。

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.