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“Comparing Current Big Issues in Chemistry Education to Past Predictions”
Bill Carroll Board of Directors,
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Bruce Bursten Provost and Senior Vice President,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
How’d We Do? Comparing Current Big Issues in
Chemistry Education to Past Predictions
Bruce E. Bursten
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Framing the Conversation: Gee, Has Anything
Surprising Happened Since 2005?
The state of education in general has been shaped
enormously by unanticipated events…
Let’s start with a question:
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Audience Survey Question
In 2005, what percentage of college students nationally had an iPhone?
• 0 percent
• 6 percent
• 11 percent
• 17 percent
• 27 percent
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Framing the Conversation: Gee, Has
Anything Surprising Happened Since 2005?
The state of education in general has been
shaped enormously by unanticipated events.
Of course, other
events had an
even greater
unanticipated
impact…
Let’s start with a question:
What percentage of your students had iPhones in
2005?
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Audience Survey Question
Between 2008 and 2014, how many of the U.S. states showed a decrease in state spending per student at public universities?
• 16 states
• 24 states
• 32 states
• 40 states
• 48 states
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Framing the Conversation: We’ve Had a
Book, Now Let’s Have a Movie!
Let’s start with The Ugly:
My year as ACS President (2008)
National Average Gas Prices:
July 17, 2008: $4.11 Dec. 30, 2008: $1.62
The impact of the
Great Recession on
higher education was
profound and
palpable. 17
Some Bad and Ugly: Declines in State
Support for Higher Education
SOURCE: The College Board, Trends in College Pricing 2014, page 29
Percentage of Institutional Revenues
from Various Sources
The combination of decreased revenues and
increased costs has led to a major political issue
involving higher education:
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Audience Survey Question
Which of the following statements is/are true?
• Only one of the statements is true • Statements I and II are true • Statements I and III are true
• Statements II and III are true
• All three statements are true
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I. Between 2008 and 2014, the NIH budget decreased by more than $10 billion.
II. Between 2006 and 2013, the number of bachelor’s graduates in Chemistry
increased dramatically.
III. Between 2001 and 2013, the percentage of women chemistry professors at U.S.
universities nearly doubled.
Trends in College Tuition: More Political
Than It Deserves?
SOURCE: The College Board, Trends in College Pricing 2014, Figure 6
Average Published and Net UG
Prices in 2014 $ at 4-yr Publics
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So What About Science Education?
Some Good News Thanks to a Dire Report
A bipartisan report commissioned by Senators
Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Jeff Bingaman
(D-NM) and Representatives Sherwood
Boehlert (R-NY) and Bart Gordon (D-TN)
Report released by the National
Academies in October, 2005
Committee Chair
Norman R. Augustine
Retired Chairman and CEO
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Received ACS Public
Service Award, May 5, 2009
RAGS ultimately led to the
America COMPETES Bill under
Pres. Bush and parts of the
ARRA legislation under Pres.
Obama. A game changer for
science in bad times!
Meh: Federal Funding for University R&D
Since 2005
$0
$10
$20
$30
$40
$50
$60
$70
University R&D Funding by Sourceexpenditures in billions, FY 2015 dollars
Other Sources Institutional Funds Industry State and Local Federal
Source: NSF, Higher Education R&D survey series. Includes Recovery Act funding. © 2015 AAAS22
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And the Chemical Sciences Have Become
Increasingly Dependent on the NIH
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Now…Something Wonderfully Good!
Data: ACS Committee on Professional Training
Similar significant growth in the
number of Chemistry Ph.D.s and
Chemical Engineering bachelor’s:
Ph.D. Chem B.S. Chem. E.
2006 2321 4523
2010 2467 5423
2013 2587 5968
There was a large decrease (890 in
2006 to 751 in 2013) in the number
of Ph.D.’s in Chemical Engineering
during this period.
Perhaps it is indeed the case that
Stimulus funding does stimulate
better outcomes…
Bachelor’s Graduates in Chemistry
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2005 Predictions: How Did We Do?
From my Presidential ACS Talk, “The Centrality of Chemistry”:
Your very bright daughter or son, or your very bright student, tells you that she or he wants to become a high school science teacher. How do you react?
• Compensation
• Social status
• Respect
Professor Alan MacDiarmid, 1927-2007
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2000
In the New York Times Around the Time of
the ACS meeting in Boston
Let’s hope that one of
our latest ACS
initiatives can make a
difference!
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Audience Survey Question
The quotation “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future” has been attributed to which of the following famous individuals?
• Yogi Berra, baseball player and accidental philosopher
• Neils Bohr, Nobel Laureate in Physics
• Mark Twain, humorist and author
• Samuel Goldwyn, film producer
• All of the above
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2005 Predictions: How Did We Do?
First Line of Story:
“Forget economics. Chemistry might
be the real dismal science.”
Highlights efforts supported by
HHMI at Emory, Davidson, and
others to stimulate curriculum
reform.
April 12, 2015
• Curriculum reform is
painstakingly slow—tradition,
inertia, and money. Priorities of
content vs. delivery.
• Will continue to develop as
experiments, primarily at
smaller institutions.
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2005 Predictions: How Did We Do?
• Continuous progress on
achieving better gender
distribution of faculty.
• Inconsistent with other
groups, especially chemists
of color.
C&EN, April 7, 2014, pp. 41-44
2005 Predictions: How Did We Do?
An Unstated Challenge:
Start-up costs for new faculty in the
chemical sciences.
2002 data from Cornell Higher
Education Research Institute on
Assistant Professor start-up
costs by discipline (k$):
Public Private
Research 1 441 489
Non-Res 1 210 221
Hard to justify ROI model with current
costs (typically more than double the
2002 numbers).
Are we eating our young?
An exercise for my academic colleagues:
If you were starting a new R1 chemistry
department with a blank piece of paper, how
many tenure-track faculty would you have?
What metrics would you use? 30
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2005 Predictions: How Did We Do?
(Assertions without data…)
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Finally: Some Concluding (and Largely
Personal) Thoughts
• 2005 predictions reflected both optimism and
impatience—change in education (especially higher
ed) moves at glacial pace.
• We can apparently be more optimistic about the
future of chemistry as a major than we thought in
2005.
• We have continued challenges in determining the
correct structure and operation of universities and
chemistry departments.
• Continued work on the
development of the next
generation of K-12
chemistry teachers is
critical.
• Bottom line: 2005-2015
has been extraordinary in
the scope of unexpected
“black swan” events in
higher education.
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Thursday, October 29, 2015
“Pharmacokinetic Considerations in Drug Design
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Punit Marathe, Executive Director in the Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics
Department at Bristol-Myers Squibb
Shane Roller, Director of DMPK and Co-founder of Phoundry Pharmaceuticals,
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Thursday, October 29, 2015
“Pharmacokinetic Considerations in Drug Design
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Punit Marathe, Executive Director in the Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics
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Shane Roller, Director of DMPK and Co-founder of Phoundry Pharmaceuticals,
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