Resources
Campus Support
- Inclusive Community of Practice
- CTL: Anti-Racism Course
- CISC: Trainings and Workshops
- OIEC: Trainings & Resources
- HR: Intercultural Competence
- Libraries: Cultural Competence
- ODECE: CO Diversity Initiative
- RIO: Diversity Hub
Campus Research
- McNair (All Fields)
- CUREs (Any Field)
- SMART (STEM Fields)
- STEM Routes (STEM Fields)
- BSI (Biological Sciences)
- DLA (CEAS)
- CU SPUR (CEAS)
- YOU'RE @ CU (CEAS)
Philosophy Statements
Consider UROP's Lightbulb Moment Story template and these resources to help craft your mentoring philosophy.
Pandemic Resources
- Undergraduate Research in Online, Virtual, and Hybrid Courses: Proactive Practices for Distant Students
- Six mentoring tips as we enter year two of COVID
- Reassess–Realign–Reimagine: A Guide for Mentors Pivoting to Remote Research Mentoring
- How the pandemic widened scientists' mentoring networks
- Best Practices for Remote Research Experiences
- Mentoring in crisis does not need to put mentorship in crisis: Realigning expectations
- Report on the Impacts of COVID on Undergraduate Research
- Mentoring Undergraduate Research Remotely During COVID-19
- Research at Home (Society for Science & the Public)
- Lab Options for Distance Delivery
- Undergraduate Biology Resources for Coronavirus Disruption
- Digital Options for Teaching Tiny Earth Labs and Activities
- Learning “Scholarship as Conversation” by Writing Book Reviews
CUR Resources
- Events
- Conferences, Workshops and Student Presentation Opportunities
- Services
- Consulting, Grant-Writing, and Program Review
- Resources
- Advocacy, Mentoring, Assessment, Journals, and more
- Publications
- Books, Journals, and Newsletters
Mentoring Resources
Communities
- UNM Mentoring Institute
- NRMN: National Research Mentoring Network
- CIMER: The Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research
Guides and Books
- Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research
- Mentoring the Next Generation
- Pathways to Science Manual
- BWH Mentoring Toolkit
- Relationship-Rich Education
- The Elements of Mentoring
- Entering Mentoring
- Entering Research
- Mentoring Up (for grad/post docs)
- Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend
- Mentoring UR Handbook
Journals
- Scholarship and Practice of UR
- Perspectives on UR and Mentoring
- Journal of Transformative Learning
- Understanding Interventions
Podcasts
Mentor Agreement Templates
Check out Research Learning Contracts: A Useful Tool for Facilitating Successful Undergraduate Research Experiences and these samples to develop your own agreements.
References
Recruitment and Selection
- 2021: Gender disparities in engineering are a problem, CU Boulder researchers offer a solution
- 2020: Twelve Principles Trainees, PIs, Departments, and Faculties Can Use to Reduce Bias and Discrimination in STEM
- 2019: Evidence-Based Strategies for Improving Diversity and Inclusion in Undergraduate Research Labs
- 2018: Seven Potential Barriers to Engaging in Undergraduate Research for HURMS
- 2018: Overcoming Barriers in Access to High Quality Education After Matriculation
- 2018: Diversity and inclusion in the undergraduate research lab
- 2018: 5 Must-dos for Writing Inclusive Job Descriptions
- 2017: 3 Tips for Writing Entry-level Job Descriptions
- 2017: Men Faculty Engagement in Gender Equity Work in STEM
- 2013: The Role of Social Capital in the Experiences of Hispanic Women Engineering Majors
- 2012: Science faculty’s subtle gender biases favor male students
- 2011: Evidence that Gendered Wording in Job Advertisements Exists and Sustains Gender Inequality
- 2011: Promoting minority success in the sciences
- 2004: Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers
Inclusive Mentoring
- 2021: Cultivating inclusive instructional and research environments in ecology and evolutionary science
- 2020: Culturally aware mentorship: Lasting impacts of a novel intervention on academic administrators and faculty
- 2020: Practical Strategies for Inclusive Research Environments
- 2019: Undergraduate Research Teams That Build Bridges, Produce Publishable Research, and Strengthen Grant Proposals
- 2019: Making STEM Education More Welcoming to Underrepresented Minorities
- 2019: How to Give Positive Feedback
- 2019: The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM
- 2018: Mentoring Strategies that Support Underserved Students in Undergraduate Research
- 2018: Transforming mentorship in STEM by training scientists to be better leaders
- 2018: Navigating the Academic Landscape: How Mentored Research Experiences Can Shed Light on the Hidden Curriculum
- 2017: A Tiered Mentoring Model for Deepening Student Learning Across Undergraduate and Graduate Design Courses
- 2016: Mentoring for Inclusion: The Impact of Mentoring on Undergraduate Researchers in the Sciences
- 2016: Defining Attributes and Metrics of Effective Research Mentoring Relationships
- 2016: A Developmental Model of Research Mentoring
- 2016: Applying Mindfulness to the Undergraduate Research Process
- 2015: Ten Salient Practices of Undergraduate Research Mentors
- 2015: Culturally Diverse Undergraduate Researchers' Academic Outcomes and Perceptions of Their Research Mentoring Relationships
- 2015: Measuring Networking as an Outcome Variable in Undergraduate Research Experiences
- 2013: Five Effective Strategies for Mentoring Undergraduates: Students’ Perspectives
- 2013: The Mentoring Competency Assessment: validation of a new instrument to evaluate skills of research mentors
- 2007: Overcoming Differences to Achieve Meaningful Mentoring Relationships
Engaging Race
- 2020: Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab
- 2020: Collectors, Nightlights, and Allies, Oh My: White Mentors in the Academy
- 2019: Using Critical Race Theory to Craft Undergraduate Research Experiences
- 2019: Disarming Racial Microaggressions: Microintervention Strategies for Targets, White Allies, and Bystanders
- 2018: The High Impact of Engaging Race Consciously
- 2018: Lab heads should learn to talk about racism
- 2018: Public Intellectuals: A Better Model for Scholars of Color
- 2017: Learning from the experiences of women of color in MentorNet's one-on-one program
- 2015: Nice white men or social justice allies?
- 2014: What matters in college for retaining aspiring scientists and engineers from underrepresented racial groups
- 2014: Managing diversity: How leaders' multiculturalism and colorblindness affect work group functioning
- 2012: Faculty as undergraduate research mentors for students of color
- 2011: The Benefits of Multi-Year Research Experiences
- 2011: Considering the Impact of Racial Stigmas and Science Identity
- 2010: Importance of Undergraduate Research for Minority Persistence and Achievement in Biology
- 2007: Understanding the science experiences of successful women of color
- 2007: Equality and Justice For All? Examining Race in Education Scholarship
- 1996: The role of ethnicity in choosing and leaving science in highly selective institutions
Student Belonging
- 2022: Dreams of a Lifetime: How Who We Are Shapes How We Imagine Our Future
- 2021: College Belonging: How First-Year and First-Generation Students Navigate Campus Life
- 2020: “Looking at Myself in the Future”: how mentoring shapes scientific identity for STEM students from underrepresented groups
- 2019: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome and Stereotype Threat: Reconceptualizing the Definition of a Scholar
- 2019: The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
- 2019: College Students' Sense of Belonging: A Key to Educational Success for All Students
- 2019: The Credo Second-Year Transition Guide: Extending Retention and Student Success Efforts Beyond the FYE
- 2018: The Impact of Early Participation in Undergraduate Research Experiences on Multiple Measures of Premed Path Success
- 2018: Coming out in STEM: Factors affecting retention of sexual minority STEM students
- 2015: Building student belonging and engagement: insights into higher education students’ experiences of participating and learning together
- 2015: Expanding the concept of belonging in academic domains: Development and validation of the Ability Uncertainty Scale
- 2013: A Sense of Belonging: Improving Student Retention
- 2009: Engaged Learning: Enabling Self-Authorship and Effective Practice
- 1998: Undergraduate Student-Faculty Research Partnerships Affect Student Retention