The CoS is also committed to create an Undergraduate Laboratory Center in the vacated Boggs Laboratory Building to insure that facilities for undergraduate instruction in the sciences will match the improved facilities for graduate research. Leading faculty choose institutions that already have leading faculty. The CoS will support its existing faculty, will develop senior positions to attract additional leading faculty, and will work to recruit, promote, and reward junior faculty of great promise. Leading faculty require and attract sophisticated students. The CoS will improve its attractiveness to students through program enhancements and by the provision of additional resources and opportunities.
Science is unique among disciplines in the involvement of postdoctoral students in research.
The CoS will work to encourage growth in the number of such students working in its units. The enhanced reputation of the CoS and its academic programs will attract more undergraduate and graduate students to its Schools. The College will devote resources to provide information about the quality of its programs to appropriate external constituencies. The CoS will provide curricula and unique educational opportunities that take advantage of the Georgia Tech context to meet the needs of an increasing number of students at the undergraduate, professional masters, doctoral, and post-doctoral levels.