THE FIVE PILLARS Academic Excellence

things you’d never thought of as interesting.”

– Tia Payton

FGCU Scholar Ambassador

} Campus-wide initiatives developed for collective accountability on the Performance Based Funding Metrics

• Faculty and staff work jointly to create collegespecific goals and set targets

• Added new Programs of Strategic Emphasis

• Completed articulation agreements for two collegiate academies (dual enrollment) and three “2+2” programs to provide more opportunities for accelerated graduation

• Course coordinators focused on 14 freshman courses to improve performance of first-year students, which improves retention

• Boot camps and pre-semester immersion programs developed and implemented to prepare students for success

ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE

137 27 Revised programs* New programs*

*Undergraduate, graduate, minors, and certificates

} Submitted grant applications for externally sponsored research and programs increased by 537%, which resulted in a 194% increase in total amount of awards from 2017 to 2022

} Office of Scholarly Innovation and Student Research

• Further facilitated faculty productivity, communityengaged scholarship, and extramural funding

• Continued to promote student publications for recognition in their field, with 274 undergraduate research papers published since 2017

• Expanded sponsored faculty-mentored student research

• Increased research and scholarly engagement through numerous events, programs, and initiatives

Internship opportunities & employer engagement

Externally sponsored research (from 2017-2018 to 2019-2020)

+193.52%

CURRICULUM REVISIONS IN EXISTING PROGRAMS: PROGRAM ADDITIONS:

827 FGCU Honors College enrollment fall ‘17 to fall ‘21

1,234