Position Description:
- Participate as an ex-officio member of the selection committee.
- Provide program orientation for faculty mentors and student fellows.
- Contact student fellows and their supervisors to establish a schedule of weekly meetings. The final schedule should include ten meetings (of which students should be allowed to miss no more than two). (See below for a sample schedule of meetings.)
- Ensure that students have filled out appropriate paperwork so they can be paid and make them aware of the schedule of payments.
- Ensure that arrangements are made for at least three or four evening social activities (students can be put in charge of arranging particular activities).
- Find office space (usually in the Rhetoric Center) for students whose supervisors cannot provide space.
- Ensure that photos will be taken of each student/faculty research team at some point during their research.
- Be available to plan (May) and attend (mid-July) luncheon for donors. This luncheon will include a presentation by one student fellow; some students will also attend.
- Be available to talk with students about their research, their presentations, any problems that they might have with their supervisor, etc.
- Plan and run the weekly meetings, including bringing in guest speakers when appropriate.
- Collect end-of-the summer evaluations from both faculty supervisors and students.
- Collect student reports at the end of the summer; include students’ photos.
- Construct a brief director’s report on the summer’s program.
- Prompt the annual follow-up survey of former McGregor researchers to be administered by the Office of the Dean Research and Scholarship.
