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Encouraging the study of computer science at a research university.

Encouraging the study of computer science at a research university. Michael J. Pazzani Vice President for Research and Graduate and Professional Education Pazzani@rutgers.edu. Rutgers Freshman Seminars. Rutgers Faculty: 2700 Undergraduates: 37,000 Graduate and Professional: 13,000

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Encouraging the study of computer science at a research university.

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  1. Encouraging the study of computer science at a research university. Michael J. Pazzani Vice President for Research and Graduate and Professional Education Pazzani@rutgers.edu

  2. Rutgers Freshman Seminars • Rutgers • Faculty: 2700 • Undergraduates: 37,000 • Graduate and Professional: 13,000 • AAU Research University • Douglass college, residential college for women • Rutgers Freshman Seminar • One Credit course One hour a week • Introduce students to research early in education • Get to know a real professor • My Seminar: Internet Personalization • Taught at Douglass to broaden participation • Hopefully, more interesting than finding prime numbers

  3. Personalized Restaurant Recommendation

  4. Class Exercise: Pizza

  5. Is this creepy?

  6. Field trip to Google: Free Food & Met Larry Page

  7. Motivate Research Problems:Common Sense

  8. Why attend a research university?Education where new knowledge created • How many hours a week does a Rutgers Professor teach? • What do Rutgers Professors do when they aren’t teaching? • How much does a Ph.D. student in computer science pay Rutgers a year?

  9. Stranger Than Fiction (2006) • “I'm teaching 5 classes this term, advising 2 doctoral students, and I'm the faculty lifeguard.” • Dr. Jules Hilbert University of Illinois at Chicago

  10. Results • All students passed exit test on universities and research • One female student enrolled in a CS class • VP of Research • Encouraged professors to talk to freshman and sophomores about graduate school costs. • Provided $3000 to each faculty member that taught a freshman seminar to hire a student over the summer to participate in research instead of work at Starbucks.

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