Happy Friday! As important, happy Friday of the 11th week of the semester (11!). It’s hard to believe that we’re already winding down fall semester. But here we are in November, and the weather is fine. So believe it we must. And I know we’re all looking forward to things slowing down in the coming weeks.
It’s been another pretty eventful Week in UR, and I’ve got some big news to share. First up is that the Provost has approved a funding request for student travel to the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC)! Thanks to J.T. for putting this funding request together very, very quickly. Eight lucky students will get to travel to Tampa in February to present their research at this annual event of the Florida Undergraduate Research Association (FURA). This is a significant development, for sure. Although TSC students have presented at FURC in the past, our participation has been tied to grant-funded projects and offered only as external funding allows. The commitment of College funds suggests that we will (hopefully) be able to extend this opportunity to all TSC students on an ongoing basis, and hopefully to an ever larger cohort. We’ll have to scramble to find students who are interested in participating; abstracts are due December 2. But I’m confident we can get this done. We’ll discuss more at our meeting on Tuesday.
On the publicity front, work continues apace. The PR team is working to reach students by just about every imaginable means, including by means of a new and novel approach: Persistent messages in Canvas. I’m sure many of us saw this pop up just this morning. This is the kind of message that keeps showing up on Canvas until the user manually dismisses it. For those of you who don’t spend a significant share of your waking hours in Canvas, you can view a copy of the message here:
ur symposium 2025 canvas message.png
In other publicity-related news, the PR and Workshops team held the first abstract writing workshop of the academic year on Tuesday. And perhaps as a result, we now have two submissions! In the Fall semester!! It may not be much, but it’s certainly a good early start. Separately, the Office of Communications and Marketing has produced a fresh new design for paper fliers. I’ve submitted an order to get those printed in full living color so we can once again wallpaper the campus with them, if we’d like. Here’s a link to the design:
That’s about all the news I can think of for now. As mentioned above, please remember that we’ve got our final UR Council meeting of the semester on Tuesday, and I think more members can finally be present for this one now that RSI training is winding down. I look forward to seeing everyone again. As always, I’ve put together a draft agenda. Please review and add any additional items for discussion as you see fit:
agenda ur council meeting 11-5-24.docx
And with that, it’s happened again. You’ve wasted another perfectly good hour reading “The Week in UR.” Hopefully it didn’t take that long, but there’s always much to report. Also, it’s Friday. So who cares? I hope everyone has a great weekend. To all FAMUans celebrating homecoming, enjoy! It’s going to be a glorious weekend for a homecoming game. And the Rattlers are having a very good year. Texas Southern is going to wish they’d stayed home on the range.
Dan
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