CAMPUS PARTNER SUPPORT

For Campus Partners - Support

Research with Students

OUR provides campus partners with a platform (ForagerOne) to publicize undergraduate research opportunities and recruit undergraduate students.

This system enables campus partners to:

Dynamically create, modify, and retire research opportunities without additional intervention or oversight from our office.
Communicate with and evaluate student candidates in one dedicated ecosystem without additional emails, phone calls, meetings, and other time-consuming processes.

Course Development Resources & Support

With support from the Teaching & Learning Transformation Center, OUR developed an open educational resource for students to learn more about undergraduate research, develop basic research skills and competencies, and develop a plan for finding their first research opportunity.

The Undergraduate Research Opportunities & Competencies (UROC) open educational resource is a free, open-access resource hosted in Open Learning for University of Maryland students, faculty, and staff. UROC is also publicly available for individuals beyond UMD College Park.

UROC is available to University of Maryland campus partners to use and integrate into courses, workshops, or programs through the UMD Open Learning platform.

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CUR Membership

OUR is providing enhanced institutional membership to the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) for all UMD faculty, staff, and students.

This membership allows everyone at UMD to join CUR at no additional cost and to take advantage of the shared knowledge, resources, and support of the broader CUR Community. To activate your enhanced institutional membership to CUR, please visit cur.org/activate.

With this membership, you will receive:

Access to exclusive CUR Online Community.
Online access to the journal Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research (SPUR).
Preferred pricing for CUR events, programs, products, and services.

OUR Resources for Campus Partners

Welcome to OUR's resources to support campus partners. Our mission is to provide a broad range of support options to enable campus partners to pick the type and level of support that best enables their undergraduate research goals, ambitions, and outcomes.

Services & Resources

Please use the tabs above to learn about our resources for engaging in Research with Students, developing research-related courses (Course Support), and taking advantage of your institutional CUR Membership.

Programs

OUR operates a number of undergraduate research programs, enabling large numbers of undergraduate students to engage in research opportunities. We do this in collaboration with campus partners in a variety of ways. Please see our Calls for Proposals to study opportunities by which you can be a part of our programmatic impacts.