Research and Graduate Education in the College of Education Report of the Associate Dean for Research
External Funding in FY 2016 More than $3.2 Million in Research Awards Over $50,000 in awards per TT faculty member Awards from NSF, US Department of Education Funded Research with Engineering/Computing More than $6.3 Million in Philanthropic Support
Mission Driven Research Project Goalpost: An After School Program to Promote Academic Achievement and Physical Well-Being Reading Recovery: Ensuring that First Grade Students in South Carolina Learn to Read and Continue to Read Upstate Writing Project: Improving Instruction in Writing in South Carolina and Across the Nation NOYCE Middle Grades STEM: Preparing STEM Specialists to become Teachers in South Carolina Virtual Environment Interactions: Teaching Computer Programming to Children – a Multidisciplinary Approach
New Research Collaborations Greenville Health System Consortium for Computing in Education Engineering and Science Education CU Center for Workforce Development Clemson Center for Geospatial Technologies
A Nationally Recognized Graduate Program Six PhD Degrees 14 Masters and Specialist Degrees 576 degree seeking graduate students 163 PhD students Highest ranked graduate program in SC Our Goal: “Top 30” in the Nation