URGENT: Undergraduates in Research & Public Service (fwd)

[Richard Roth]

Dear Geography faculty and students:

Each summer we have produced a report for the Provost highlighting how
many of our students engage in either direct faculty research or public
service via service learning or internships in the public sector.  This
impressive report goes a long way toward showing how central a role public
service plays in the way we define ourselves as students and faculty, and
the powerful collective impact our students make on the community.

This year the College is gathering this data, and is asking for it by May
1--two months sooner than usual. They of course just sprung this reporting
assignment on us at the end of this last week! This is always a daunting
accounting task because we have very few official sources which keep track
of these activities

Thus I plead with you to send me names, projects, titles, sponsoring
agencies, etc, to meet these guidelines. If you have any doubt whether
something "counts," send it to me anyway. Basically, any student
involvement in a faculty research project (broadly defined, so as to
include, for instance, data gathering, library research, etc) can count,
as can any public sector internship students had, whether or not they
received credit. Operative dates are September 2001-April, 2002, and the
minimum info I need to list something is a student name, a sponsoring
agency (if applicable), and some flavor of the research or internship or
volunteer work.

Please try and get this stuff to me by Monday, April 29. Thanks.

Rick Roth

>
> UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH INVOLVEMENT
>
> The UW accountability plan defines undergraduate involvement in research
> as follows:  During the academic year, an individual undergraduate student
> participates in faculty research for at least one quarter, averaging more
> than 10 hours per week.  Here are some guidelines for preparing this
> information:
>
> -- The measure is intended to capture the number of students working
> with faculty on faculty research and does not include independent studies
> in which students follow their own research questions.
>
> -- For the purposes of this measure, it does not matter whether or
> not students received course credit and/or payment.
>
> UNDERGRADUATE PUBLIC SERVICE INVOLVEMENT
>
> The UW accountability plan defines undergraduate involvement in public
> service as participation in UW-sponsored public service internships for at
> least one quarter. Experiences in a variety of sectors--government,
> non-profit, business, etc.--that have a public service orientation are
> included.  The measure does not stipulate a minimum number of hours per
> week.  Here are some guidelines for preparing this information:
>
> -- The measure is intended to capture the number of students involved
> in UW-sponsored public service internships, service learning as part of a
> UW course, and public service activities through official University
> programs.
>
> -- For the purposes of this measure, it does not matter whether or
> not students received course credit and/or payment.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Lee L. Huntsman
> Provost
>
> Attachments
>
> cc: Dr. Richard L. McCormick
> Dr. Debra Friedman
> Mr. Harlan Patterson
> Dr. Janice DeCosmo
>
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