Faculty Mentor Expectations

This page intends to outline expectations of faculty whose undergraduate students are participating in the UR2PhD undergraduate research training course. Please note: the research training course is expected to be a student’s introduction to research.

PRIOR TO THE START OF THE COURSE:

Faculty mentors will be expected to verify the information their mentees submitted in their application. Mentors will also be asked to identify any graduate students who may be working with their mentees, if applicable.

DURING THE COURSE:

Faculty mentors will be responsible for mentoring their undergraduate and graduate students. They will set research expectations for the project that their students are working on.

Ahead of the third course session, mentors will be expected to create and complete a contract with their students outlining expectations and ways of working. Mentors will also asked to assign their mentees a research paper related to students’ project.

Throughout the program, faculty mentors will be expected to support and check-in with their students about the status of their research.

AFTER THE COURSE:

The course culminates in the creation of a research proposal and research presentation. We hope that all mentors will continue to work with their mentees beyond the course.

Specific responsibilities include:

Providing your mentees with support on their research project
Occasionally assigning or reviewing their work for the course (e.g. in week 3, the students should be given a paper to read related to the research project they are working on)
Ensuring that students attend the virtual course and complete related assignments
Ensuring mentees are compensated in some form for their participation in research and/or the course (e.g. independent study credit, pay, etc)

UR2PhD: Undergraduate Research Methods Course by Computing Research Association’s UR2PhD Program. This work, “UR2PhD Undergraduate Research Methods Course”, is adapted from “Early Research Scholars Program” by Christine Alvarado, UC San Diego, used under CC BY 4.0. “UR2PhD Undergraduate Research Scholars” is licensed under CC BY 4.0 by the Computing Research Association’s UR2PhD Program and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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