1. Engaging Students in Research ESC Virtual Conference November 16, 2011

2. Please remember to raise your hand on Elluminate before talking. Please remember to mute your phone when you are not talking.

3. Please introduce yourself!

4. APPROACHES to Student Research As independent or group study ◦Reed Couglan Online ◦Dee Britton Graduate Research ◦Roxana Toma

5. Student Research Presentation OPPORTUNITIES 1) ESC Student Academic Conference ◦Enhancing engagement through faculty-student research collaborations

6. Student Research Presentation OPPORTUNITIES 2) SUNY & CUNY Student Research Symposium LOB - Albany NY Annual, alternates grad/undergrad, poster exhibition February 29, 2012 - UNDERGRAD Projects are defined: "undergraduate research projects or creative endeavors that represent the breadth of academic work at its campus and/or a creative research specialty that highlights the campus.“

7. Discovery: An Undergraduate Showcase December 12 th : Poster description, electronic mock-up of poster, and faculty recommendation due to Danielle.Benedict@esc.edu Danielle.Benedict@esc.edu December 19: Faculty selection committee will convene to select three projects for submission to SUNY and three alternates For additional information, contact Dee Britton or Danielle Benedict

8. Student Research Presentation OPPORTUNITIES 3) Master’s Level Graduate Research Conference Annual, SUNY Brockport Open to Master’s level students across the disciplines from all colleges and universities in upstate New York and nearby southern Ontario, Canada Deadline to submit proposals: Feb 4 Conference: April 14

9. Student recognition other than symposium/conference? GRAD: Dean’s Medal GRAD: Outstanding Research Award

10. Help for students? ◦They can’t do this unless faculty are mentoring them, working together, give constant feedback ◦Faculty takes responsibility ◦The ones accepted at conference/symposium are reimbursed for their travel by GRAD

11. SPSS eTutor Reference available in ESC commons

12. INITIATIVES A. GRAD Committee for Student Research ◦Calls for nominations/proposals, screens submissions, provides rankings, and decides on which submissions will be sent out to conference/symposium evaluation committees ◦Decides on Dean’s Medals and Outstanding Research Award

13. B. GRAD Quantitative Literacy Task Force “Quantitative Methods and Economic Concepts” Includes individual module for Research Methodology Open type Repository on Angel No Credit; Open Access INITIATIVES

14. Next steps? College wide applied research study? Expanded commons page for cross college research opportunities? College listserv? Other ideas????

15. Thank you!