PR2EPS: Preparation, Recruitment, Retention & Excellence in the Physical Sciences

物理天文学和化学生物化学的部门正在进行多管齐下的计划，以大幅提高入学率，保留率和未来学生在这两个部门和3+2合作工程学位课程的成功。 该计划从积极招募参加夏令营的学生开始，夏令营的重点是使用多学科方法和一套技术和团队建设社交技能来解决问题。该计划的保留部分侧重于新生，以及既定的高级专业，包括（1）大一，跨学科，研讨会和技能培养课程，强调基本的数学和解决问题的能力，以及提供洞察物理科学的潜在职业，（2）由教师监督的物理科学步入式辅导中心，并由提供同行领导的指导和辅导的高级专业人员组成，以及（3）由一位从教育和科学角度都合格的教师顾问定期指导新生。 学生还可以在随后几年的夏令营中担任同侪领导或与教职员工一起进行研究。学院顾问还负责向学生提供有关参加外部研究项目和国家科学会议的信息，以满足其他机构的同行和资深科学家的需要。该计划设定了一个目标，即在计划的每一年中吸引16 -24名新的大一学生主修上述学科，其中60-75%的留存率留在物理科学或相关专业。招聘工作包括针对来自SUNY Oakota周围经济贫困地区的学生。

The departments of Physics & Astronomy and Chemistry & Biochemistry are engaging in a multi-pronged program to substantially increase enrollment, retention, and success of future students in both of these departments and the 3+2 cooperative engineering degree program. The program starts with a pro-active recruitment of students who attend a summer camp that focuses on skill and confidence building using multi-disciplinary approaches and a set of both technological and team-building social skills to solve problems. Students subsequently attending Oneonta and majoring in the targeted programs are eligible for a modest financial incentive.The retention component of the program focuses on freshman, as well as established upper-level majors and includes (1) a freshman year, interdisciplinary, seminar and skill-building courses that will emphasize fundamental mathematical and problem-solving skills, as well as provide insight into potential careers in the physical sciences, (2) a physical science walk-in tutoring center overseen by faculty and staffed by upper level majors that provides peer-led mentoring and tutoring, and (3) regular freshman guidance by a single faculty advisor who is qualified from both the educational and scientific perspectives. Opportunities are also available for students to work during subsequent years' summer camp as peer-leaders or to conduct research with faculty members. Faculty advisors are also responsible for providing students information about participation in external research programs and national scientific meetings to meet peer and senior scientists from other institutions.This program has set a goal of attracting16-24 new freshman majors in the aforementioned disciplines during each year of the program with a retention rate of 60-75% remaining within a physical science or related major. The recruitment efforts include targeting students from economically disadvantaged geographical areas surrounding SUNY Oneonta.