10/11/ Encouraging the study of computer science at a research university. Michael J. Pazzani Vice President for Research and Graduate and Professional Education

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

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11 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.