IDEA FOR FACULTY
Mentoring undergraduate researchers can be both rewarding and challenging. The resources in this section were created to help you and your researchers get off to a strong start. Check out the recruitment and onboarding tools linked below.
Getting Started
Whether you’re a seasoned mentor of undergraduate researchers or just getting started, the resources on this website are for you. Use what you need to take your undergraduate research program to the next level.
Why IDEA?
The Benefits
The resources here have been tested and shown to increase research confidence, knowledge, and skills with an undergraduate sample. We have seen the impacts with our own students and hope you will, too.
How to Support
We encourage you to use and share our resources. We also welcome any feedback you are willing to share, please contact us.
Use the resources in this section for ideas on how to identify potential undergraduate researchers and how to encourage students to explore a research project.
Recruitment Tools
Use these recruitment tools to help encourage students to join your undergraduate research program.
Onboarding Tools
Once you have an undergraduate student interested in starting a research project, check out the tools we have linked here to set expectations and get off on the right foot.
Use this syllabus template to create a syllabus that aligns with your course goals, information, and assignments.
Use this supervisor and student expectation template to set expectations for your class or research project.
Use this template to outline student tasks and credit hour information for the research project.
Use this template as a reference guide of research ethics for undergraduate researchers.