Dordt College Student Kristin Janssen Presents Research at National Conference

2012 May 1

Kristin Janssen of Hospers, Iowa, was one of eight Dordt College students who participated in the annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, during Spring Break. Janssen presented "The Stolen Generation" and co-presented with Alex Pasker (Runnells, Iowa) called "Addressing Language Diversity in American Schools." Janssen is a senior majoring in secondary education and English/language arts. She also has minors in the Kuyper Scholars Program, middle school classroom, and teaching English as a second language: K-12.

NCUR is a cross-disciplinary conference open to undergraduates only. This year 3,100 students participated. Students and those in attendance were able to sit in on presentations of their choosing.

"What I like about NCUR is that it gets our students out of the familiar environment of Dordt and into a setting where the audience is neither familiar nor necessarily of the same mindset," said Carl Fictorie, Dordt College professor of chemistry and co-director of Kuyper Scholars Program (KSP).

"Because NCUR draws students from across the country, from every type of college and university, and from the full range of academic disciplines and philosophical and theological perspectives, students have to prepare for a different audience, often one that will challenge their assumptions and principles," Fictorie continued.

Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, is a comprehensive Christian college rooted in the Reformed tradition. U.S. News & World Report, Forbes.com, Washington Monthly, and Princeton Review all list Dordt on their best colleges lists. Dordt is home to approximately 1,400 students. To learn more about Dordt College, visit www.dordt.edu.