Transforming Academic Culture and Curriculum: Integrating and Scaffolding Research Throughout Undergraduate Education

Transforming Academic Culture and Curriculum: Integrating and Scaffolding Research throughout Undergraduate Education is an edited collection that serves as the definitive text of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Transformations project, a sweeping multi-year initiative that engaged 12 higher education institutions across the country in redesigning undergraduate curricula to center research experiences. It is an ambitious text that seeks to describe the design, implementation and, to a lesser degree, outcomes of what was a massive project, at once a multicampus institutional reform effort and a longitudinal study, while also meeting the needs of diverse audiences and providing tangible resources for practitioners seeking to replicate it. On balance, it is remarkably successful in achieving these competing objectives, although, as the editors might reasonably have anticipated, the volume’s contributors struggle at times to accomplish the multiplicity of goals that this text sets out to achieve.