Archived News: March - May, 2002

Other Issues

• April - June, 2003
• January - March, 2003
• October - December, 2002
• June - September, 2002
• January - February, 2002
• December, 2001
• November, 2001

Topics

Studies and Statistics
Mentoring
In and Out of Academia
New Promising Practices added to our collection

Headlines this Month

• What's New with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Responsive Ph.D. Initiative? Roundtables include participation of graduate faculty and doctoral students in grass-roots effort to enhance Ph.D. strategies.
• Kathrynn A. Adams, Guilford College. "Memo to the Graduate Faculty: What Employing Institutions Want in New Faculty"
• Richard Cherwitz, Thomas Darwin, and Laura Grund (2001, December 3). 
  "Learning to Be a Citizen-Scholar" The Chronicle of Higher Education. 
  Graduate students reflect on the impact of Sept. 11 on their disciplines in the 
  Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program at the University of Texas - Austin.
  (A similar version of this article was published in CGS Communicator [2001, December]
  as "Graduate Education as Intellectual Entrepreneurship...")

Studies and Statistics

• "Preliminary Results of the AHA Survey of Doctoral Programs in History"
  Results of a Spring/Summer 2001 survey from 104 doctorate-granting history programs in the U.S. For additional information, see: AHA Survey of Doctoral Programs
• Kimberly Suedkamp and Adam Fagen (2002, January 14).
  "A Little Advice From 32,000 Graduate Students" The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  Guidelines for career planning.

Mentoring

• Robert A. Gross (2002, February 28).
  “From 'Old Boys' to Mentors” The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  New and important roles for the adviser/mentor.

In and Out of Academia

• Robin B. Wagner (2002, January 18). 
  "All I Really Need to Know I Learned...in Graduate School?" The Chronicle of Higher Education. What Ph.D.'s learned in graduate school that is relevant to a post-academic career.

New Promising Practices in Doctoral Education

• Erasmus University Rotterdam Netherlands: International Off-campus Ph.D. Program on Cleaner Production, Cleaner Products, Industrial Ecology and Sustainability
• Howard University: Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate Program
• INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science): 
  INFORMS Colloquia
• University of California - Davis: Career Opportunities Colloquium
• University of California - Davis: Pathways Career Symposium for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars
• University of Missouri - Columbia: Interdisciplinary Graduate Minor in College Teaching
• University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill: Certificate in Postsecondary Teaching
• University of Washington: Career Development Organization (CDO) for Physicists and Astronomers
• University of Washington: Economics Dissertation Lab
• University of Washington: Urban Ecology IGERT Program
• University of Wisconsin - La Crosse: Mentoring New Faculty Email Bulletin Service