Professor Ben Slote, Allegheny College
The nature of senior projects is wildly different across the disciplines, but as a process all of them involve something rare in this world: independent inquiry. The same can apply, beautifully, to collaborative student/faculty summer research. It is a kind of invitation to students our country’s educational systems almost never give: Dear student, find a subject, an issue, a problem that intrigues or bothers you, dig into it, and say something about it that’s both credible and new. The floor is yours. In fact, defining what the floor is may be yours as well.
