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•  Identify grant opportunities in support of undergraduate scholarship
•  Create grant seeking coalitions supporting all aspects of undergraduate research
•  Monitor student proposal evaluation criteria and dates
•  Increase numbers of students involved in scholarship
•  Introduce students to scholarship earlier
•  Explore multi-institutional participation
•  Explore study abroad that provides opportunities for undergraduate scholarship
•  Provide development opportunities for faculty in mentoring and curriculum reform
•  Advocate for undergraduate scholarship with administration
•  Support curricular reform and innovation
•  Sponsor undergraduates' travel to present their scholarship at professional meetings
•  Foster interdisciplinary integration
•  Provide ongoing program assessment through contextually meaningful measures
•  Provide workshops on basic scholarship, collaboration skills and communication
•  Host faculty development workshops
•  Provide administrative support and assessment of program
•  Manage proposal review and stipend awards to students
•  Foster pedagogies of engagement
•  Schedule and fund guest speakers
•  Use evaluation data for scholarship projects
•  Facilitate broadened participation (freshman and sophomore involvement)
•  Promote myriad forms of scholarship involvement
•  Explore innovative ways to increase capacity to mentor greater numbers of students
•  Advocate for faculty reward/incentives/recognition
•  Work to institutionalize Unergraduate Scholarshiip (degree requirements curriculum reform, reward structures)
•  Seek resources to augment institutional support of faculty reassigned time
•  Encourage and develop community-based research projects
•  Attend/Report on national undergraduate research meetings, showcasing our successes
•  Explore undergraduate research opportunities among other TBR counterparts
•  Showcase undergraduate scholarship to educate funding and oversight agencies
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