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Editorial discusses mentoring and its impact on undergraduate research, highlighting personal experiences.
In this, my last issue as associate and issue editor for Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research (SPUR), Editor-in-Chief Patricia Mabrouk offered me the opportunity to write the editorial. It is fitting that the issue focuses on mentoring, and I also got to work with a friend and mentor on this issue. I have written a longer piece in a similar vein, entitled “Working Smarter by Engaging Students in Political Science Research” (Reilly 2023). Certainly, the activities described in this editorial reflect my own career path and how I arrived at my service to SPUR.
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