2010 FACULTY MENTOR PROGRAM DEADLINE: Friday November 20, 2009!
Are You Interested in Pursuing a Doctorate Degree?
Are You Interested in Conducting Research with a Professor?
Are You Required to Write A Senior Thesis as a Graduation Requirement?
You Should Consider the EOP Faculty Mentor Program (FMP)!!!
What Is FMP?
Sponsored by the Educational Opportunity Programs (EOP), FMP offers Undergraduate Fellows a research experience within the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. A two-quarter program, FMP, prepares Fellows for future educational opportunities at the graduate level and promotes the pursuit of academic careers.
The goals of FMPare to identify, encourage, and provide research opportunities for promising undergraduate EOP students interested in pursuing graduate study at the doctoral level. FMP is designed to provide students with an opportunity to gain hands-on research experience and exposure to the broad range of tasks involved in conducting a research project.
FMP Benefits:
1. Faculty Mentorship; 2. Library Research Skill Development; 3. Peer support network thorough FMP Fellows Cohort; 4. Activities designed to develop effective communication, research, and analytic skills; 5. Academic and graduate school advising; 6. Assistance in the process of applying to Graduate School (e.g., GRE Preparation)
The EOP Graduate Information Program sends out a weekly on-line newsletter containing announcements about key resources pertaining to graduate and professional school. If you are interested in graduate study, make sure you sign up to receive our newsletter and be in the know about upcoming internships and undergraduate research opportunities, workshops on the application process, visits to schools and programs, test preparation courses, and graduate/professional school fairs. Email our newsletter editor Sonia Gandara at sgandara@ucsc.edu to register for the GIP newsletter.
TIME MANAGEMENT GUIDE ONLINE (GO!) Posted Oct 29, 2008
If you feel that you have too much free time, or that you don't have as much free time as you want, you may want to look into working on your time management skills. We at EOP have posted an Online Time Management Guide just for you! Click here to check it out.
There are only 168 hours in a week. The key to effective time management is to use those hours wisely. You may not realize how much of your time is actually being used for daily activities such as sleeping, eating, showering, walking to class, waiting for the bus.
Through this walkthrough, we're going to teach you how to use your time most efficiently.
It is definitely worth your time to learn how to manage your time.