http://nrhchonors.org Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:51:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://nrhchonors.org/archives/683#comment-812 Shirley Myers Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:51:07 +0000 http://nrhchonors.org/?p=683#comment-812 Now undergraduate research programs are growing in popularity, and one argument advanced during a recent CUR Dialogues workshop is that these programs, involving close mentoring relationships of students with faculty, provide focused preparation in content, skills, and professionalism. That argument does seem like one we advance for Honors. But does anyone have data to back up this claim? Are people with this experience getting better jobs or what? Does it appeal to employers more than the old arguments about general skills and job performance? Now undergraduate research programs are growing in popularity, and one argument advanced during a recent CUR Dialogues workshop is that these programs, involving close mentoring relationships of students with faculty, provide focused preparation in content, skills, and professionalism. That argument does seem like one we advance for Honors.
But does anyone have data to back up this claim? Are people with this experience getting better jobs or what? Does it appeal to employers more than the old arguments about general skills and job performance?

]]> http://nrhchonors.org/archives/683#comment-811 Shirley Myers Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:46:23 +0000 http://nrhchonors.org/?p=683#comment-811 Is it true that CUR/NCUR (undergraduate research organizations) were once part of Honors but broke away because others wanted Honors to be about various innovations, not only undergraduate research? Is it true that CUR/NCUR (undergraduate research organizations) were once part of Honors but broke away because others wanted Honors to be about various innovations, not only undergraduate research?

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