[COSEAfaculty] CURCA update

[Grady P Blount]

Good morning:

 

Below are the minutes from a CURCA meeting we had yesterday. Note in
particular Item #3. I would like to start these meetings in the fall.
Please drop me a line or stop by the office if you are interested in
participating.

 

-Grady

 

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Grady Price Blount, Ph.D., Professor of Physics and Dean,

College of Science, Engineering & Agriculture (CoSEA)

Texas A&M University-Commerce

Commerce, Texas 75429-3011

Telephones:  903-886-5781 (office)      325-716-0450 (cell)     

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit.

Genius hits a target no one else can see.

                                    -Schopenhauer

 

From: Allan D. Headley 
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 10:34 AM
To: Raymond Green; Grady P Blount; Thomas Faulkenberry; Mary Beth
Sampson
Cc: Harold Langford; Salvatore Attardo; Brent Mangus; Larry Lemanski
Subject: CURCA

 

Dear Colleagues,
Many thanks again for taking the time to meet and brainstorm some ideas
about the future of our Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative
Activities (CURCA).  Show below are some bullet points from our
discussion:

1.	Continue to work with the Provost office to get a budget line
for this office, this could be a request to the Budget Council next
year. Action: Headley will initiate a discussion with the Provost. 
2.	Work with Randy Jolly's office to assist with the making of an
attractive video about the mission of CURCA (i.e., Changing lives
through research!) The target audience would be students thinking of
college (HS seniors) and also freshmen.  This video would also be a
recruiting instrument at orientation sessions, etc.  Action: Tom will
contact Randy Jolly to follow up. 
3.	Host a series of informal workshops/brown bag lunches to inform
students about the benefits and excitement of research.  Action: Grady
will work with Tom to get these started. 
4.	Generate more ideas about how Social Media can be used as an
outreach to better market the services and benefits of CURCA. Action:
Tom will research this aspect. 
5.	Provide a CURCA's link to each college webpage. Action: Tom will
contact Ken to get this done.


Let us keep the discussion going and if there are additional ideas,
please respond to all.  I will try and get us together again soon so
that we can continue these discussions.

Sincerely,
Allan Headley
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Allan D. Headley, Ph.D.
Dean of Graduate Studies & Research
Texas A&M University-Commerce
P O Box 3011, Commerce, TX  75429-3011
E-Mail: allan.headley at tamuc.edu
Phone:  903/886-5159; Fax:  903/886-5165

****Please note my new e-mail address: allan.headley at tamuc.edu.*******

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