About URCThis initiative will create a framework and community to augment the scholarship of learning and teaching in preparing students for graduate education, the workplace, and responsible citizenship. It will serve as a catalyst for increasing the experiential content of undergraduate education in the human sciences. In other words, this project develops a model to advance both undergraduate student development and a national undergraduate research agenda for the human sciences. Undergraduate Research Community for the Human SciencesURC_e41b7e3a-b760-11e7-ae96-bdae9842c8d9Kappa Omicron Nu Leadership AcademySponsored by the Kappa Omicron Nu Leadership Academy in partnership with Board on Human Sciences, NASULGC; Council of Administrators of Family & Consumer Sciences; Higher Education Unit - American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences; 1890 Council of Administrators. Board on Human Sciences, NASULGCCouncil of Administrators of Family & Consumer SciencesAmerican Association of Family & Consumer SciencesHigher Education Unit1890 Council of AdministratorsMichigan State UniversityHuman Ecology -- Institutional Founder Kansas State UniversityHuman Ecology -- Institutional Founder University of Maryland-Eastern ShoreHuman Ecology -- Institutional FounderURC Participating InstitutionsUniversity of ArizonaFamily & Consumer SciencesAshland UniversityFamily & Consumer SciencesBall State UniversityFamily & Consumer SciencesBradley UniversityFamily & Consumer ScienceBrigham Young UniversityFamily LifeUniversity of ConnecticutDietetics Program, Allied HealthEast Carolina UniversityHuman EcologyFlorida State UniversityHuman SciencesUniversity of GeorgiaFamily & Consumer SciencesIowa StateFamily & Consumer SciencesUniv. of KentuckyHuman Environ. SciencesUniv. of MemphisConsumer Science & EducationNorth Carolina, GreensboroHuman Environmental SciencesNorth Dakota StateHuman Development/EducationNorthern Illinois UniversityFamily/Consumer/NutritionNorthwest MissouriFamily & Consumer SciencesOhio State UniversityCollege of Human EcologyOklahoma StateHuman Environmental SciencesPenn StateHealth and Human DevelopmentTexas A&M-KingsvilleHuman SciencesTexas TechHuman SciencesUtah State UniversityCollege of Family LifeVirginia TechHuman Resources & EducationWashington StateHuman SciencesWest Virginia UniversityFamily & Consumer Sciences In five years: 1. The opportunity to engage in undergraduate research is the norm in human sciences units. 2. Candidates for graduate school are positioned to engage in research. 3. The Participating Institutions have each built their undergraduate research programs to a higher level. 4. The electronic journal selects the best of undergraduate research once a year 5. The URC Conference rivals other professional meetings for quality. 6. This initiative has stimulated the total research output and makes a measurable contribution to research. _e41b7f66-b760-11e7-ae96-bdae9842c8d9To create a dynamic and pervasive culture of the human sciences for developing the next generation of scholars._e41b801a-b760-11e7-ae96-bdae9842c8d9AssessementAssess undergraduate research models._e41b81aa-b760-11e7-ae96-bdae9842c8d91_e41b820e-b760-11e7-ae96-bdae9842c8d9PrioritiesIdentify priority issues for undergraduate research._e41b8308-b760-11e7-ae96-bdae9842c8d92_e41b838a-b760-11e7-ae96-bdae9842c8d9ConferenceCreate a national undergraduate research conference for the human sciences._e41b840c-b760-11e7-ae96-bdae9842c8d93_e41b84d4-b760-11e7-ae96-bdae9842c8d9PublicationSponsor a peer-reviewed electronic publication for undergraduate research._e41b8560-b760-11e7-ae96-bdae9842c8d93_e41b8614-b760-11e7-ae96-bdae9842c8d9CommunityEstablish an electronically connected multi-campus community of undergraduate researchers._e41b86e6-b760-11e7-ae96-bdae9842c8d94Undergraduate Researchers_e41b87ea-b760-11e7-ae96-bdae9842c8d9Research & Service LearningFoster integrative, cross-specialization undergraduate research and service learning research projects in addition to traditional research in the specializations. _e41b884e-b760-11e7-ae96-bdae9842c8d95_e41b8902-b760-11e7-ae96-bdae9842c8d92017-10-22http://www.kon.org/urc/urc_handout.pdfOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net