Graduate/Undergraduate Programs

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Graduate/Undergraduate Programs Service Teaching

• Sastry G. Pantula
• North Carolina State University

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Service Teaching

• Bread Butter
• Teach most undergraduates on campus
• First two courses of statistics at the graduate
  level

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Service Teaching

• Undergraduates-
• Only one shot you have- do a great job!
• Teaching experience for graduate students
• Outstanding Teaching Awards!

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Service Teaching

• Graduate teaching-
• Generates new positions and resources
• Generates good will on campus
• Generates research collaborations with faculty in
  other departments
• Improves the quality of research on our campus

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Undergraduate Program

• Strong undergraduate curriculum
• A pipeline for graduate programs
• Recruiting transfer students
• Undergraduate research
• Mentoring

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Graduate Programs

• One of the largest graduate programs
• Interdisciplinary programs
• Recruiting Best Students- hard work!
• Retaining (AND Graduating) students
• Mentoring
• Foundation year
• Communications

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Graduate Programs

• Strong MS and Phd course work
• MS with Concentrations
• Phd program with a strong core, and a good blend
  of theory and methodological research
• Wide variety of Special Topics courses
• Research working groups

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Graduate Programs

• Financial Support
• 1,875/month
• Tuition and health insurance covered
• 45 TAs
• RAs
• VIGRE, NIH traineeships
• Merck/SAS/Lilly Fellowships
• Graduate Industrial Traineeships (GIT)

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Faculty

• Reduce teaching loads for research active faculty
• Hire outstanding teaching assistant professors
• Surge in faculty- three junior, two senior
• Provide appropriate mentoring
• Gratification comes from seeing them achieve
  their goals!