Balancing Needs in Publishing With Undergraduate and Graduate Students at Doctoral Degree-Granting Universities

摘要

Professors at doctoral-degree granting universities tend to focus on publishing with graduatestudents more than with undergraduates. While we argue that publishing with undergraduatesis worthwhile, we first want to point to organizational structures that contribute to the focus ongraduate students. First, the hierarchical structure of doctoral universities can make publishingwith undergraduates more difficult. Although it is often possible to delegate mentoring ofundergraduates to graduate students, faculty have primary responsibility for mentoring graduatestudents (Espinoza-Herold and Gonzalez, 2007; Ynalvez et al., 2014). Direct faculty mentoringof graduate students is necessary because success in obtaining postdoctoral positions, facultyappointments, and research-related employment is highly dependent on publishing with mentorswhile in graduate school (Hartley and Betts, 2009; Casanave, 2010). Second, compared withundergraduate programs, graduate programs tend to provide more field-specific knowledge,greater depth of study, and increased focus on conducting research (Mangematin, 2000; Austin,2002; Hakala, 2009; Northwest Commission on Colleges Universities., 2018). A graduate student’sknowledge of the subfield can make publishing with graduate students less time consuming.Third, faculty at high research activity universities are under considerable pressure to publishfrequently and in high-impact journals (Nir and Zilberstein-Levy, 2006; Burks and Chumchal,2009; Rizzo Parse, 2009; Everett and Earp, 2015), which makes publishing without studentstempting. Nevertheless, publishing together can be rewarding for faculty, graduate students, andundergraduate students.