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Edward Nuhfer, director of Educational Effectiveness at Humboldt State, in collaboration with emeritus professor of economics Dennis Muraoka (CSU Channel Islands), are founding editors of the newly announced peer-reviewed open access journal "_Student Learning through Mentored Scholarship (SLMS)_,":http://www.sagepub.com/press/2013/february/SAGE_publishesStudentLearnin… produced by SAGE Publications of Thousand Oaks, Calif.
The journal disseminates research on the successful experiences of higher-education faculty in support of innovative research and scholarship with peers and students.
Nuhfer and Muraoka collaborated for two years with support from SAGE in constructing concept documents, designing reviewers' rubrics and assembling a diverse and well-qualified national inaugural board of reviewers.
Campuses of the California State University are especially well known for supporting undergraduate research, civic engagement, and service learning done both through formal classes and through co-curricular projects in student academic clubs. These require a substantial investment of faculty time in one-on-one mentoring that is not widely recognized for its true value. Muraoka notes: "SLMS provides a much needed vehicle that will allow educators to convey mentoring ideas and models to other educators."
SAGE'S international reputation as a publisher of high quality journals provides a tremendous opportunity for collaborating mentors to co-author with one another and with their students on the exceptional kinds of learning experiences that are signature to campuses known for providing top-notch undergraduate education.
Edward Nuhfer, director of Educational Effectiveness at Humboldt State, in collaboration with emeritus professor of economics Dennis Muraoka (CSU Channel Islands), are founding editors of the newly announced peer-reviewed open access journal "_Student Learning through Mentored Scholarship (SLMS)_,":http://www.sagepub.com/press/2013/february/SAGE_publishesStudentLearnin… produced by SAGE Publications of Thousand Oaks, Calif.
The journal disseminates research on the successful experiences of higher-education faculty in support of innovative research and scholarship with peers and students.
Nuhfer and Muraoka collaborated for two years with support from SAGE in constructing concept documents, designing reviewers' rubrics and assembling a diverse and well-qualified national inaugural board of reviewers.
Campuses of the California State University are especially well known for supporting undergraduate research, civic engagement, and service learning done both through formal classes and through co-curricular projects in student academic clubs. These require a substantial investment of faculty time in one-on-one mentoring that is not widely recognized for its true value. Muraoka notes: "SLMS provides a much needed vehicle that will allow educators to convey mentoring ideas and models to other educators."
SAGE'S international reputation as a publisher of high quality journals provides a tremendous opportunity for collaborating mentors to co-author with one another and with their students on the exceptional kinds of learning experiences that are signature to campuses known for providing top-notch undergraduate education.