Solving Low Enrollment Through Teacher Education

ORAL

Abstract

Physics programs graduating fewer than five majors per year over the last five years faced closure in Texas in the fall of 2011. Similar measures are being considered or have been implemented in Maine, Florida, Idaho, Missouri, Tennessee, and Louisiana. If the five graduates per year standard were applied nationally, half of all public programs, and all public HBCUs would be shuttered. All of this when the country faces a shortage of highly qualified high school physics teachers. This panel discussion will focus on the recruitment and retention of future physics teachers as a strategy for small programs looking to survive and even thrive in the current climate.

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Authors

  • Phil DiStefano

    • Hamline University
    • Florida International University
    • University of Texas at Austin
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • University of Kentucky
    • APS
    • San Diego State University
    • Green River Community College
    • California State University, Long Beach
    • University of Arkansas
    • Aibilene Christian University
    • American Chemical Society
    • Rutgers University
    • University of Maryland
    • University of Colorado-Boulder
    • Western Washington University
    • University of Arizona, Center for Astronomy Education (CAE)
    • ACS
    • Association of Public and Land-grant Universities
    • University of Colorado at Boulder
    • University of Colorado

  • Ron Henderson

    • Middle Tennessee State University

  • Michael Marder

    • University of Texas at Austin

  • Gay Stewart

    • University of Arkansas

  • Vivian Incera

    • University of Texas at El Paso