Faculty

The Culverhouse Faculty Scholars Program is an ideal way for a faculty member to initiate a working relationship with a top undergraduate student or continue a working relationship that has been established with a student through the University of Alabama Emerging Scholars Program.

Responsibilities include:

1. Scheduling and holding regular meetings with your Faculty Scholar. Weekly or biweekly meetings at mutually agreed upon times are suggested.
2. Working with your Faculty Scholar to develop a plan (including deliverables) that moves your research project forward.
3. Submitting a report of outcomes from the work with your Faculty Scholar to the Associate Dean for Research by May 1 of each year.
4. Working with the Faculty Scholar to create a presentation of her or his Faculty Scholar efforts for the Spring University of Alabama Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URCA) Conference and the Culverhouse pre-URCA event in the spring semester.
5. Ensuring the Faculty Scholar is performing her or his duties in a timely manner and informing the Associate Dean for Research immediately when the Faculty Scholar is not performing her or his duties in a timely manner.

Application

Student Participation

If you have a student you would like to work with through the Faculty Scholars Program, we will try to accommodate your wishes. The student must apply for the Faculty Scholars program. If you would like to participate in the Faculty Scholars Program but do not have a student in mind we will try to identify a student applicant for you. In either case, a student who wishes to participate in the Faculty Scholar Program must apply early in the Fall semester of the proposed academic year.

Please note that Faculty Scholars should not be used to support instruction/classroom activities.

Contact

James Cochran

• jcochran@culverhouse.ua.edu