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Faculty Eligibility and Resources
Eligibility guidelines and resources for faculty mentoring undergraduates in research.
Faculty Eligible to Mentor Students in Research
All tenure-line and research-track faculty at the college and professional schools may supervise undergraduates in research. Research-track faculty includes research assistant professors, research associate professors, and research professors. Geisel School of Medicine faculty with the titles of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor may supervise undergraduates in research.
Faculty with other types of appointments may supervise undergraduates with relevant department or program chair, director, or dean approval. Examples of other appointment types include teaching faculty and post-doctoral scholar*.
Only those who are currently employed by Dartmouth are eligible to supervise undergraduates in research. Those whose primary employment is elsewhere but have adjunct or courtesy appointments at Dartmouth are not eligible to supervise undergraduates in research.
*If a postdoctoral fellow is working under the supervision/mentorship of a tenure-line faculty member, that faculty member should be designated as the primary mentor for undergraduate students (the postdoctoral fellow can be the direct supervisor for the student). If the postdoctoral fellow is working primarily independently and does not have a designated faculty member as mentor, then they can be the primary mentor for undergraduate students if permission is granted via this form:
https://dartmouth.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8r0EhnBhSTLUflz
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NOTE: it is expected that student researchers and faculty mentors both be on campus during the term(s) of the research unless there is a compelling reason to waive this requirement.
Council on Undergraduate Research
Dartmouth College is an institutional member of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR).
CUR provides support and professional development opportunities for faculty, staff, administrators, and students. Their publications and outreach activities are designed to share successful models and strategies for establishing, nurturing, and institutionalizing undergraduate research programs.
As a member of the Dartmouth community, you can join CUR for free.
To access the resources provided by CUR:
- Activate your membership here.
- When you are registered as a member, you will receive CUR newsletters as well as an electronic subscription to the journal CUR Quarterly.
Survey Tools
Faculty who are interested in assessing student learning in the classroom, in the lab, and in faculty-mentored research may be interested in the following survey tools developed by Professor David Lopatto with a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute:
- CURE (Classroom Undergraduate Research Experience) captures a pattern of reported learning gains from a variety of pedagogies. It is most useful in a disciplinary course, particularly where the instructor may be using research-like laboratory or field work.
- RISC (Research on the Integrated Science Curriculum) is a variation of the CURE survey that includes items that are relevant to an interdisciplinary or integrated course.
- SURE (Survey of Undergraduate Research Experiences) is a survey of student experiences in full-time faculty research.