Graduate Recruiting Committee

Members:

• Gladimir Baranoski (gvgbaranoski), chair of committee;
• Rob Warren (rhwarren), Graduate student representant;
• Jeffrey Shallit (shallit), Director for Graduate Studies
• Robin Cohen (rcohen)
• Richard Cleve (cleve)
• Pascal Poupart (ppoupart)
• Jeremy Barbay (jbarbay)

Objectives:

• Gather information about available funding;
• Produce guidelines for the department and for each group about techniques to entice more grad students;

Meetings: Approximatively every two weeks for one hour, usually on Thursday at 12:30. The room DC3540 is booked from 12:30 to 14:00 for the next scheduled meetings on

• Thursday, October 6th
• Thursday, October 27th

The Minutes of the previous meetings are:

• MinutesOfGradRecruitingcommitteeFirstMeeting

Discussion Space

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I summarized here the points I found interesting in the previous meeting(s):

Distinct Targets identified:

• from Waterloo
• from Canada
• from the US
• from abroad

Actions Proposed:

• Propose a list of recipes at the level of the department or group.
  • How to invite potential Grad students as the AI group did, how much it costs on average, and how much can be funded by external resources.
  • How to pool to accept exceptional students even if their interest is not clear enough to interest a particular faculty member.
  • Recommendations to take URAs to find future Grad Students among undergrads.

• Contact Dean's office (or others) to find out about eventual funding to help recruit grad students.

-- JeremyBarbay - 29 Sep 2005

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