{"id":2847,"date":"2017-02-10T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T13:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/?page_id=2847"},"modified":"2025-11-13T11:16:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T16:16:37","slug":"communities-of-practice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/teaching\/communities-of-practice","title":{"rendered":"Community of Practice 2019-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>CUREs: Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences<\/h2>\n<p>Conducting research at a primarily undergraduate institution is a challenging task. Faculty need to balance teaching, research and service; often with an expectation to achieve research excellence but without the advantages of well-funded graduate programs. This challenge presents an opportunity for faculty to think creatively and strategically about the relationship between their research and teaching.<\/p>\n<p>This community of research practice is dedicated to promoting the achievement of faculty teaching and research goals by providing course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) for students. Although more commonly associated with STEM programs, CUREs are employed across many disciplines&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/community-of-practice-cures-course-based-undergraduate-research-experiences-2019-2020\">Click here for additional information and to register.<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Facilitators:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:rakus@marshall.edu\">Dr. John Rakus<\/a>, Assistant Professor, COS\/Chemistry Department<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:leighs@marshall.edu\">Dr. Steven Leigh<\/a>, Assistant Professor, COHP\/School of Kinesiology<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CUREs: Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences Conducting research at a primarily undergraduate institution is a challenging task. Faculty need to balance teaching, research and service; often with an expectation to achieve research excellence but without the advantages of well-funded graduate programs. This challenge presents an opportunity for faculty to think creatively and strategically about the relationship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2847","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8752,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2847\/revisions\/8752"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}