Procedures and Eligibility: Gervase Programs: Learning to Lead

Procedures and Eligibility

Eligibility for students:

Sophomores and above with a minimum grade point average of 3.25.  First year (freshmen) students may participate spring semester with approval.  Transfer students are eligible upon matriculation.

Procedures for students:

1. Forms can be downloaded from this website or contact Sonia Jacobson, Office of the Provost.
2. Contact the faculty member to discuss the terms of the position, including overall time commitment, time distribution, and what you will be expected to do.
3. Fill out the Faculty-Student Assistantship Agreement. Submit one copy to the Office of the Provost, give one to the faculty mentor, and keep one for yourself.
   

Eligibility for faculty:

All Main Campus faculty.

Medical and Law Center faculty are invited to participate provided faculty submit a Research Project Description.

Procedures for faculty:

1. Fill out a Faculty Research Description form on this website.
   
2. Upon selecting an assistant, fill out the Faculty-Student Assistantship Agreement form with the student and retain a copy of the form.
3. At the end of the term you will be contacted to approve recognition (transcript notation) for student's research, and to complete a program evaluation form.
   

Recognition and/or Payment:

1. All students participating in research for a minimum number of hours per term (60 hours) will have a simple notation (not credit) added to their transcripts ["Undergraduate Research Assistant, (semester/year)"]
   
2. GUROP has some minimal term-time funding for students who most qualify for financial aid (i.e. grand and /or work-study approval per the usual "needs analysis" confirmed by Student Financial Aid).  A limited amount of funds will be set aside each semestser for this purpose, and an early submission of the Faculty-Student Agreement form is highly advised.  Qualified students will be funded on a first-come first-served basis.
3. There is no prohibition that a student may be compensated monetarily for work as a research assistant.  Students may be paid through a faculty member's own sponsored research funs, or through departmenal work-study funds.  If faculty have such funding, and would like to help pay a research assistant, please indicate the source of such funding on the Research Project Description.