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Undergraduate Population: 2731 Faculty: 254 Furman University Greenville, South Carolina – one of the nation’s premier undergraduate liberal arts colleges Undergraduate Population: 2731 Faculty: 254 Dr. George C. Shields Vice President for Academic Affairs & Provost Professor of Chemistry

Starting from Scratch at Armstrong! Armstrong (Atlantic) State University, a regional state university, 6000 undergraduates, 2008-2010 Barriers – Faculty time, 4-4 teaching load, summer school Barriers - Money, low salary, 10 month paycheck Barriers – Student time & money, hours in summer Time, Money, Knowledge key barriers

Early Introduction to Undergraduate Research Funded originally by Dreyfus Foundation & NSF-STEP, Hamilton College (1800 Undergrads) : “Using Pre-College Research to Promote Student Success and Increase the Number of Science Majors” Shields, Hewitt, North CUR Quarterly 31 (2010) 43-47; GPA 2.5; Graduation Rate 97% (+10); 75% STEM Majors (59%) Armstrong State University CST – “Best Intervention Ever” The average four-year graduation rate is 6.1% for CST and 13.2% overall for Armstrong. Fall 2011 and 2012 cohorts were 43% & 33% “Using Early Introduction to Research to Increase STEM Majors: A Tale of two Colleges, one small highly selective private and one non-selective regional public.” Shields, Gajdosik-Nivens, Ness ACS Books Bucknell University (3450 Undergrads, small MS program), in year 3, all Under Represented groups only (female, student of color, low socioeconomic status, first generation college student ) 97% retention so far; 94% retained in STEM so far WHY DOES IT WORK! Mentoring, real research, bias removal.

Furman University “Engaged Learning” at Furman Problem solving, project-oriented, research-based philosophy (1995 –David Shi) ~ 200 Furman undergrads/year conduct full-time research *In past 2 years, 50% of faculty have mentored at least one student ~ 100 Furman undergrads/summer receive institutional support via “Furman Advantage” mechanism (1984) *Since 2010, 20% of this funding to projects in the Humanities ~ 130 undergrads/year receive institutional funding for conference travel *25% (2015) graduating seniors have presented research off-campus ~ 600 student presentations at Furman Engaged! Spring Celebration *20% direct participation by Furman student body, 2016

Administrative support: Creating and Maintaining Sustainability (1) The Office of Undergraduate Research & Internships (URI), Tim Fehler Faculty development activities Institutional funding for students (Furman Advantage) Student travel for conference presentations Furman Engaged! Celebration of Research/Creative Endeavors Evaluation/Assessment > 95% students extremely satisfied (80%) or satisfied (15%) with research experience; > 80% faculty extremely satisfied 2016 URI Budget: $660,000 (internal funding)

Administrative support: Creating and Maintaining Sustainability (2) Office of Integrative Research in the Sciences (OIRS), John Wheeler Identify, develop (external applications), manage and assess programmatic opportunities across STEM disciplines and in the science education community Assist target faculty in developing individual competitiveness for grant submission *NSF REU and RUI, NIH AREA, ACS-PRF, others > $7M in multidisciplinary STEM funding since 2010 Sources: NSF, NIH, HHMI, Merck/AAAS, Beckman, others Since 2010, ~ 220 undergrads, ~ 70 faculty supported for summer research experiences (stipends/supplies/equipment) > 50 HS students/teachers provided 6-week summer research experiences, and > 85 at-risk, first generation HS students enrolled in 1-2 science exposure camps