Faculty Survey

To measure improvement in the amount of undergraduate research, creative projects and scholarship, the ADVANCE program must definine a baseline of the amount of these activities already happening on campus. The University has some of this data, however, we would like input from all faculty.

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Student Survey

To understand current student activity as well as the student interest in extra-curricular student research experiences the ADVANCE program must pole students. Please complete the student survey, link below.

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Advance Student Research

The Quality Enhancement Plan for UL Lafayette, Advance Student Research Experience (Advance), supports the strategic mission of the University to increase student productivity and success through engagement in mentored research, innovative projects, and creative endeavors.

Learn more about Advance.

Student Center for Research, Creativity & Scholarship (SCRCS)

SCRCS will support all Advance activities and will centralize information on research, scholarship, and creative
activity, allowing students, faculty, and staff to learn about opportunities and resources.

Workshop Video: Produce Professonal Academic Posters

Recording of the poster training session can be found here.

More virtual training here

Social Media

Link to SCRCS Facebook page

UL Community Greets (SCRCS)

Robert McKinney, Ph.D.

My hope is that the Center allows students to engage in hands-on learning that connects their passion and discipline. I believe the Center's value is providing support to students and faculty to create learning experiences that expand beyond the typical classroom experience. There is a quote by John Dewey that hangs across from my desk "If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow." The Center is about finding new ways to learn so that students can achieve the promise of tomorrow.

Robert McKinney, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs

Blanca T. Bauer, Ph.D.

ADVANCE will help students "practice" their discipline while reinforcing transferable competencies and sharpening their analytical skills.

Blanca T. Bauer, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, Institutional Effectiveness

Guy Harry Jr.

My aspirations for the best possible student center are exactly what is stated within the question: research, creativity, and scholarship. Students who participate in this center should be able to do research that will enable them to develop independent critical thinking skills along with oral and written communication skills. This student center should also allow students to be creative as possible, pushing them to think outside of the box and how they have never before. Lastly, students who work in this student center should feel as though they are scholars; this can be by rewarding them with a scholarship/stipend for the hard work that will be put into the research or just by being treated as so (certificates, polos, etc...). Student centers, such as this one, give students hands-on experience at what they might want to do in the future, so it's very important that students receive the best experience possible!

Guy Harry Jr.
Undergraduate Student, Biology
Student Orientation Staff Leadership Team
SGA College of Sciences President &Assistant Director - The Big Event

Giroir, Christopher, Ph. D.

I would like for the center to be a resource area that helps promote, encourage, and support students wanting to learn how they can gain more about interest topics they may have both in and out of the academic classroom. I also see this center as helping students improve their skill set and competencies associated with conducting research that will not only help them in their academic disciplines but also show them how to implement them in their chosen fields after graduation.

Giroir, Christopher, Ph. D.
Associate Professor, Education Foundations and Leadership

Michael McClure, AIA, FAAR

I envision a space of robust idea exchange where students and faculty can expand their understanding of what constitutes research, creative works, and scholarship. A place where new ideas are formed, formed ideas are supported as they develop into methodologies, and fully realized projects can be disseminated across campus and beyond.

Michael McClure, AIA, FAAR
Interim Dean, College of the Arts

Bruce Wade, Ph.D.

I hope that the Student Center for R, C, and S will energize students to do research, even if they thought research was out of their league.

Bruce Wade, Ph.D.
Department Head & C.B.I.T. TC/LEQSF Regents Professor
Department of Mathematics

Randy Gonzales, Ph.D.

I expect the Student Center for Research to play a pivotal role in centralizing student activity around research, creativity, and scholarship. I hope the Center stays focused on student outcomes. I expect it to connect students to research opportunities, amplify student research successes, and serve as a central space and organizing entity for co-curricular research activity. As the Center’s mission takes hold, I expect students in every college to see research, creativity, and scholarship as foundational to a university education. As a faculty member, I hope the Center creates sustainable and effective activities and processes to connect the disparate pieces that constitute student research at UL.

Randy Gonzales, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Coordinator, Professional Writing