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• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: "Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate."

• National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS): Results are now available from the study, "National Doctoral Program Survey."
• Dr. Joseph Bordogna: "An address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Colloquium on Science and Technology Policy."
• Earl Lewis: "Prospective Look for Graduate Education."  
• The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation: "An Initiative to Improve the Doctoral Experience in the Arts and Sciences: Towards a More Responsive Ph.D."

Recently Featured Articles, Reports, Presentations

• Dr. John Tsapogas: "Retention of the Best Underrepresented Minority Graduates in Science and Engineering".  Making Strides.
• Andrew Kaldor's presentation at the AWU Science Education and Research Conference: "Re-engineering Graduate Education in Science and Engineering."
• Jerry Gaff's address to the 11th Annual Teaching Renewal Conference at the University of Missouri: "Reforming Graduate Education."
• Jolene Koester: Ideal Emphasis and Characteristics for the Preparation of New Faculty for Regional Comprehensive (Master's Preparation) Universities.
• The Associated New American Colleges: Statement on "The Faculty We Seek".
• Northwest Science & Technology: "Stakeholders in Higher Education Rethink the Ph.D." 
• Monitor on Psychology: "Growth of the New Ph.D." Major issues facing doctoral education highlighted in November 2000 issue of APA's Monitor on Psychology.
• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation: Robert Weisbuch's "Toward a Responsive Doctorate."
• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: "Rethinking the Doctorate."
• David Damrosch: "Our Mentors, Our Tormentors: Doctoral Training and the End of Discipleship."

Recently Featured Studies in Doctoral Education

• Jean M. Johnson, Alan Rapoport, and Mark Regets: "U.S. Graduate Education."  NSF. Current trends and issues in graduate education in the United States are discussed.
• Jennifer Jacobson: "Minority Groups are Poorly Represented on Chemistry Faculties, Study Finds."  The Chronicle of Higher Education.
• National Science Foundation:  Summary Report 1999: Doctorate Recipients from United States Universities.
• Chris M. Golde and Timothy M. Dore. (2001, January) "At Cross Purposes : What the Experience of Today's Doctoral Students Reveal about Doctoral Education".
• Nerad and Cerny: "Ph.D.'s-Ten Years Later Study."
• Millet and Nettles: "Race and Sex and Field Differences in Doctoral Student Experiences".
• Jean Johnson: "Presentation on the Survey of Earned Doctorates."  
• Department of Education: Digest of Education Statistics 2000: Post Secondary Education, U.S. Doctoral Degrees Granted.