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Archived News: January - March,
2003
Other Issues
Topics
Business and Industry
In and Out of Academia
Scholarly Citizenship
Studies and Statistics
New Promising Practices added to our collection
Headlines this Month
- Kathrynn A. Adams, (2002, November)
"What
colleges and universities want in new faculty"
Specialized knowledge of one's academic discipline is necessary but no
longer sufficient.
- James L. Applegate, (2002, November)
"Engaged
graduate education: seeing with new eyes"
College and university initiatives to improve the quality of education need
to be reinforced by comparable initiatives in the disciplinary societies.
- A. Leigh DeNeef, (2002, November)
"The
preparing future faculty program: what difference does it make?"
A survey of 129 Preparing Future Faculty alumni assesses the effectiveness
of the program.
- Jerry G. Gaff, (2002, Summer)
"The
disconnect between graduate education and the realities of faculty work: a
review of recent research"
This is a review of recent studies that document problems with traditional
practices in doctoral education and the need for improvements in faculty
member preparation.
- Jack Meacham, (2002, Summer)
"Our doctoral programs are failing our
undergraduate students"
This article examines ways in which current Ph.D. programs fail to prepare
new doctorates for faculty positions.
- Faye M. Dong, (2002, Fall)
"A
method for graduate students to provide feedback to their major professors"
This is a study of the effectiveness of an anonymous survey as an assessment
tool.
- Piper Fogg, (2002, November)
"Number of
Ph.D.'s awarded in U.S. declines, but American women gain in share of U.S.
total"
The annual survey by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research
Center shows that the number of doctorates awarded by American research
universities fell in 2001 but that women gain in percentage of the total.
- Maresi Nerad & Joseph Cerny, (2002, August)
"Postdoctoral
Appointments and Employment Patterns of Science and Engineering Doctoral
Recipients Ten-plus Years after Ph.D. Completion: Selected Results from the
'Ph.D.s - Ten Years Later' Study"
This paper highlights findings on the career paths of science and engineering doctoral recipients. These results are part of comprehensive study, PhDs -Ten Years Later, that will appear in the forthcoming book, The Ph.D. - Passport to Multiple Destinations.
- Elaine R. Parent, (2002, October)
A Database of
Dissertation Studies Focusing on the Doctoral Student Experience
A collection of over 210 dissertations on various aspects of the doctoral
education experience.
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