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Celebrating Scholarship & Creativity Day

We welcome families and others interested in learning what our students and faculty are working on with their research and creative projects.  If you are a presenter, please invite those you would like to attend and direct them to this website for information on the day.

Presentations will take place at both the CSB and SJU campuses in various locations and at various times between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24. Please use the campus map links located to the right to find driving directions, visitor parking lots, and specific buildings. View a list of building acronyms.

The schedule of presentations for the day will be available electronically on April 20 at 8:00 a.m. You may search the schedule for specific students or topics/areas that interest you and print a list of those you would like to attend. In scheduling presentations, we have allowed five minutes to move between sessions.  Please use this time and do not leave in the middle of sessions/presentations or enter a room once a session/presentation has begun. This is distracting to both the presenter and the audience.

• Information for presenters
• Information for advisors
• Information for department chairs
• Information for moderators
• Key dates to remember 

Information for presenters

Presentations will take place at both the CSB and SJU campuses in various locations and at various times between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24. Your time and location will be assigned by the person in charge of your department or program. The final schedule will be available on April 20.

All project descriptions will be submitted online. Please use the link on the left of this page to access the application (Register to present at CSC). As part of the application you will be asked to enter your name (and the members of your group if a group presentation) and whether this is an oral or poster presentation. You will be asked to submit a title and submit a brief, one paragraph is typical, project description. You will also be asked to provide the name and e-mail address for your project advisor (not necessarily your academic advisor). Your project advisor is the person for whom or with whom you did this project. To save time you should talk with your advisor about what they expect in the project description. There is a link on the form to submit your description to your advisor for their approval. Once submitted watch your email for either a message indicating your advisor accepted your description or an email asking for changes to your description. This process will continue until the advisor accepts your description.

The deadline for submitting project descriptions is midnight March 28. No project description will be accepted after this date. If you have any questions about the application please contact us.

Schedules should be available from your advisor after April 13 with the final schedule of presentations available online April 20. Links to the online schedule will be found on this page starting on that date. Make sure you verify your information. If you have any problems please contact us.

Information for advisors

Advisors play a key role in the success of Scholarship and Creativity Day and we thank you in advance for your work.  The quality of presentations is a reflection not only of the work the presenters put into their projects but also the mentorship you have provided to them throughout the project. Each presenter will be asked to identify an advisor for their project. Of course, if you are the presenter then you will also be the advisor as well. Faculty and staff may serve as advisors for projects but all students are required to identify a project advisor.

Project descriptions will come to you for your approval as an email message. You will have two options. If the title and description do not meet your expectations, you can send the description back to the student. A text box will open allowing you to provide feedback to the presenter. The student will respond to your feedback and then resubmit the project description to you. This process continues until the description meets with your approval.

Once the project description meets with your approval you should select that option on the form. At this point you will be asked to identify areas of interest for this project. You will be presented with a variety of areas; departments, programs, sustainability, etc., for you to select. You may choose as many of these areas as you would like. At the minimum, your own department/program would be selected. Just as last year, the schedule will be online and searchable. The interest area search will be based on the choices you make at this step of the process.

Finally, you will be asked to determine the length of time required for the presentation. Events under one hour can be scheduled in 10 minute blocks. Over one hour are in 15 minute intervals. You should consider the length of time required for the talk, how much time should be allowed for questions and answers, and then add an additional 5 minutes to allow for audience members to leave one talk and move to the next talk. Please round to the larger 10 minute interval, that is, if you estimate that 35 minutes are required then choose the 40 minute presentation time. Poster sessions are fixed in length and do not require this step.

Generally this project will be scheduled through your department. If you think it should be scheduled through another department, you will be asked to send the project to Katie Vogel with an explanation on why it should be scheduled differently.

Having trouble logging in to the advisor's page?

In some cases you may need to type ad\ before your user name in order to log into the advisor page. Please try this if you have problems accessing the page.

The deadline for forwarding projects for scheduling is 6:00 p.m., April 4.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Information for department chairs/program directors

The department/program role is similar to last year. You are being asked to construct the schedule for your celebration. As the chair or director you will be asked to do a few different things to facilitate your presentations.

Here is the flow of information and timing:

• March 12 - March 28- Students will submit project descriptions using an on-line form. This project description will go directly to the advisor upon submission by the student.
• March 12 - April 4- Advisors will receive an email link to the project description for each of their students or group presentations/posters. They will be able to return the project description to the student with suggested corrections or to accept the project description. Once accepted the faculty advisor will then be asked to indicate those areas that might be interested in the particular presentation. That will typically be the faculty advisors department but the talk may be of interest to others as well (sustainability, service learning, other departments, etc.). The presentation length will also be assigned at this time. All of these tasks will be completed online. Once this task is finished the project description will be forwarded by the faculty member to the department chair/coordinator for scheduling.
• March 12 - April 13- Department chairs/program directors or their designated representatives can schedule talks for their assigned buildings and spaces. This is also done online. The information completed by the faculty advisor is sent to the chair for scheduling as an email link.

Presentations will be scheduled using the online form. Once the project advisor has completed their work the form will be submitted to you as an email with the student(s) name(s), project title and description, and the requested length of time for the presentation. The email will also contain a link to the scheduling form. You will be asked to provide three things on this form: building, room number, and beginning time of presentation. All poster presentations will be at either 8:00 a.m. or 1:00 p.m. for your assigned campus and will last for 50 minutes.

We ask that you solicit moderators for your presentations. The moderator's role is described under the Information for Moderators section of this page. Moderators may be faculty, staff, or students.

The ending date on each of the three parts of the application process is the deadline. That is, students will no longer be able to submit project descriptions after March 28, faculty will need to complete their work by April 4 and chairs will need to complete scheduling by April 13. If you have any questions about the process or if you encounter problems scheduling please don't hesitate to contact us.

Information for moderators

Thank you for helping with Celebrating Scholarship and Creativity Day by acting as a moderator for a session or presentation. Please begin each session/presentation giving the following:

1. Welcome
2. Moderators name
3. Presenters name
4. Presentation title
5. Advisor name
6. Department

Outline the presentation format, i.e., this is an hour session with two 20 minutes presentations and 5 minute question and answer session for each with 5 minutes for moving between presentations. Please ask guests to wait until the presentations are completed before they leave the room. Please check with each presenter and let them know that you will keep track of the time and indicate to them when they have 5 minutes left in their presentation. In addition, please keep track of the Q&A session length and stop it after 5 minutes to keep the day on schedule.

If your department/area has arranged for box lunches or a reception; please announce that to the presenters and guests as well.

Please make sure the door to the room is closed prior to presentations beginning.

Key dates to remember

• March 12 to March 28- Students will submit project descriptions using an on-line form. This project description will go directly to the advisor upon submission by the student.
• March 12 to April 4- Advisors will receive an email link to the project description for each of their students or group presentations/posters. They will be able to return the project description to the student with suggested corrections or to accept the project description. Once accepted the faculty advisor will then be asked to indicate those areas that might be interested in the particular presentation. That will typically be the faculty advisors department but the talk may be of interest to others as well (sustainability, service learning, other departments, etc.). The presentation length will also be assigned at this time. All of these tasks will be completed online. Once this task is finished the project description will be forwarded by the faculty member to the department chair/coordinator for scheduling.
• March 12 to April 13- Department chairs/program directors or their designated representatives can schedule talks for their assigned buildings and spaces. This is also done online. The information completed by the faculty advisor is sent to the chair for scheduling as an email link.