How Did I Get Here?

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.