Beginning in graduate school at the University of Vermont, Castonguay crafted his teaching and research experiences toward his goal of joining the faculty at an undergraduate institution.
Many faculty at predominantly undergraduate institutions have come to recognize the pedagogic value of hands-on, discovery-based work, i.e., research.
Whether a candidate discusses assessment methods elicited a greater range of responses from faculty at primarily undergraduate and PhD-granting institutions when compared with community college faculty.
A new report indicates that women have gained ground in science faculties at predominantly undergraduate institutions (PUIs).
It's hard to believe that a grant of less than $30,000 could have had such an instrumental role in the career of such an important scientist, but that's the wonder of STEM education at the faculty, graduate, undergraduate, and K-12 levels: You seed knowledge, hypotheses, and exploration, and it takes off in ways that you can hardly imagine.
This flexibility also makes synthetic biology particularly accessible and stimulating for faculty and undergraduate students at small institutions.
Our goal was to introduce these teaching practices to faculty teaching undergraduate biology at institutions representative of the broad spectrum of higher educational institutions in the state of Louisiana.
Qualitative and quantitative data were collected via purposeful sampling of undergraduate science students and science faculty at a large (more than 25,000 undergraduate students), public university in the United States (Table 1).
Postgraduates' mentoring of undergraduates makes it possible for the faculty at research universities to involve undergraduates in research.
Here's Planey Money again:[T]he biggest category of costs is faculty, at $21,000 per year per undergraduate student.
The dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, William C. Kirby, told professors at a faculty meeting this week that the university periodically took a hard look at undergraduate education.
