Roundtable: Mutually Beneficial Relationships: Easily Engaging Students in Junior Faculty Scholarship

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract/Description

Faculty often find trouble balancing the demands of teaching with scholarly activity at primarily teaching institutions. While graduate program faculty may excel in incorporating their graduate students into their research agendas, junior faculty at undergraduate institutions may struggle to establish a research agenda that engages students in scholarly activity—providing a mutually beneficial relationship to both parties. Panel participants will discuss endeavors at one such institution in which junior faculty have worked with both undergraduate and first-year Masters students on a variety of research projects with student contributions ranging from survey design, content analysis and data collection, interview transcription, and data analyses to writing scholarly articles. Student participants will include two undergraduate students and two turned graduate students to provide varying perspectives on the benefits students receive from such experiences. Earned credits, internal grant funding opportunities, and conference attendance are addressed in terms of contributing to student learning outcomes, personal growth, and professional readiness.

Sub Unit

• Area XV. Roundtable Sessions

Discussants

• Sarah Gwynne Whiteford, Austin Peay State University

• Megan R. Kienzle, Austin Peay State University

• Frank Ferdik, Austin Peay State University

• Anna Leimberg, Austin Peay State University

• James McLean, Austin Peay State University

• Cassidy Reeves, Austin Peay State University

• Riley Maddox, Austin Peay State University

• Dylan Workowski, Austin Peay State University