Special Features: Resources to Support Student Learning
Last Updated: July 2007
Student Developmental Activities
The College supports student developmental activities through Student Senate and Investigative Studies. Student Senate funds conference registration fees, hotel expenses for speakers/guests, transportation expenses (gas, air travel, bus fare, taxis) and activities that benefit the student body. The Investigative Studies Program formed in 1997, spurred by faculty and student interest in undergraduate research opportunities. The administration established a $15,000 budget line that has increased to $20,000; donors are being sought to endow the program as part of the next comprehensive campaign. Committee members chose “Investigative Studies” as the name of the program, thinking that it was more inclusive than "Undergraduate Research," which is traditionally associated with the sciences.
Since 1997-98, the Investigative Studies Program has awarded numerous summer grants that provide students a $1500 stipend and free housing on campus during a six-week period to conduct their scholarship activities under the supervision of a faculty member. A fall symposium is held at which students who received summer research stipends make formal presentations to members of the College and Marietta communities. The program has also awarded dozens of travel grants of $500 each to students to help defray expenses associated with their presenting research at conferences or attending professional conferences in their major area of study. During the 2003-04 academic year alone, 31 students representing nine disciplines were awarded travel grants.
