What is it about?
This study analyzed the number of undergraduate and graduate research mentees along with the attitudes and beliefs faculty hold about mentoring undergraduate students, funding levels, and faculty characteristics to find out what really impacts the number of students who receive active mentoring. While the amount of funding has impact, the number of undergraduates funded is less important at higher levels of funding. This implies that a small amount of funding will provide the resources faculty need, if they have the desire and disposition to mentor undergraduate students.
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Why is it important?
This study provides evidence that small seed projects among faculty committed to undergraduate research mentoring will help a university broaden access to mentoring for undergraduates wanting to engage in biomedical research.
Perspectives
We wanted to understand the extent to which faculty attitudes and beliefs about mentoring undergraduates mattered and interacted with funding levels among biomedical research faculty. This insight would provide guidance about policy for universities wanting to increase the number of undergraduate students with access to biomedical research mentoring, a high impact practice in higher education.
Amy Wagler
University of Texas at El Paso
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This page is a summary of: Factors and mediators impacting the number of undergraduate research mentees at a research-intensive Hispanic-serving institution, PLoS ONE, October 2024, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0289386.
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