Category: Publications

08/30/10

Council on Undergraduate Research Call for Submissions for Summer 2011 issue

This edition’s theme: “Undergraduate Research and the Tenure and Promotion Process”

The theme of the Summer 2011 CUR Quarterly will focus on ‘Undergraduate Research and the Tenure and Promotion Process”. We seek 4 or 5 authors who can write articles helpful to CUR members that provide insight on how the tenure and promotion process acknowledges and supports faculty involvement with undergraduate research.

We encourage articles that articulate how undergraduate research is, or can be, valued and recognized as an integral part of the tenure and promotion process.

Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to

  • Structuring T&P guidelines to explicitly address how UR contributes to faculty assessments;
  • How incorporating UR into T&P expectations affects faculty workload;
  • Institutional support necessary to enable faculty members to meet revised T&P guidelines;
  • Approaches to dealing with changing T&P guidelines for new hires vs. established faculty.
  • How university-wide T&P guidelines address faculty mentoring of undergraduate research across disciplines and colleges.

If you are interested in submitting an article, please prepare one or two paragraphs describing the focus of your proposed article. These paragraphs should be submitted using our online submission form by September 15, 2010. Decisions on invitations for full papers will be made by October 1, 2010.

Final articles will be about 2500 to 3000 words in length. The final text for review and editing must be submitted by November 15, 2010.

Deadlines
September 15, 2010: One or two paragraph description of article submitted online at http://cur.networkats.com/members_online/submissions/substart.asp?action=welcome&cid=73

November 15, 2010: Deadline for final text for review and editing. Directions on how to submit final papers will be sent to authors of the selected articles at a later date.

12/10/09

Michigan Journal Call for Abstracts

From the desk of Jeff Howard, editor of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning:

The Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning (MJCSL) is seeking articles for their upcoming publication.

The MJCSL is a national, peer-reviewed pubication with a circulation of about 1200 (with subscribers all over the world), and includes articles on research, theory, pedagogy, and other issues pertinent to curriculum-based service-learning in higher education, campus-community partnerships, and scholarship of engagement for a faculty and administrator audience.

Please consult submission guidelines for more information – www.umich.edu/~mjcsl/ – as well as review abstracts of past articles the MJCSL has published.

There are no length guidelines for abstracts. Please submit a description that adequately conveys the focus/plan for the article, along with your e-mail address. Invitations to submit an article will be made by e-mail no later than mid-January, with invited articles due the last Monday in March. The first step in the submission process is to send an abstract or precis by December 20th.

If you have any questions after reviewing the submission guidelines, please contact Jeff Howard, MJCSL editor at [email protected].

And please consider subscribing. The cost is only $22 for an individual and $28 for an institution. It would contribute to sustaining the Michigan Journal.

12/1/09

Federal Outreach Materials Available

The University of Missouri hosted a national webinar on federal FY 10 research priorities and budgets on November 10, 2009. The PowerPoint presentations delivered by the U.S. Department of Education, National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and Office of Naval Research have been posted and are available for download. Agency presenters gave details on FY 10 budget requests, updates on FY 09 expenditures (including American Recovery and Reinvestment Act awards), and award processes and recipient reporting.