Current News 

In and Out of Academia
For Doctoral Students
Obtaining Employment
New Promising Practices added to our collection

Headlines

• Susan Warner (June 3, 2003)
  "Of Ivy and Industry: Harvard's Quest to Do Business"
  Harvard has traditionally kept a tight rein on faculty relationships with industry.  The university is now debating the pros and cons of allowing its researchers to enter into commercial partnerships.
• Heather Malcolm (April 11, 2003)
  "Negotiating a Job Offer"
  Heather Malcolm is Senior Human Resources Generalist at Seattle Genetics, Inc.  These are the PowerPoint slides that accompanied her presentation to doctoral students at the Preparing Chemical Leaders of Tomorrow retreat held in Seattle on April 11, 2003.

In and Out of Academia

• Jeffrey Brainard (January 10, 2003)
  "Survey of Doctoral Programs Needs Major Changes, Panel Suggests"
  A panel of the National Research Council has proposed big changes in the methodology of its next survey of research-doctorate programs, which will be completed in 2005.
• Stephanie Mohr (March 10, 2003)
  "On Choosing Children"
  A female postdoc reflects on the institutional policies (or lack thereof) in academia that make it more difficult to choose to have children. 
• Scott Smallwood (March 28, 2003)
  "A Race That's About More Than Speed"
  Richard Tapia, a professor of computational and applied mathematics at Rice University, seeks to recruit more minority Ph.D.'s in mathematics and science.

For Doctoral Students

• Elaine R. Parent (February, 2003)
  "The Doctoral Student Experience"
  This PowerPoint slideshow presents a model of doctoral student development and proposes the Jump-start Intervention as a means of reducing attrition in doctoral programs.
• The Universal Index of Doctoral Dissertations in Progress
  This site holds a database of doctoral dissertations in progress around the world.

Obtaining Employment

• Olivie Eyre (March 6, 2003)
  "Opting Out of Academic Science"
  A postdoc considers her the benefits and costs of working outside of academia.
• Gabriela Montell (March 27, 2003)
  "What's Your Philosophy on Teaching, and Does it Matter?"
  Candidates for academic positions at universities are often required to submit a statement of their philosophy of teaching.  Different types of universities will give different weight to the importance of such statements.

New Promising Practices in Doctoral Education

Clemson University: College Teaching
Emory University: Teaching Assistant Training and Teaching Opportunity (TATTO)
Miami University: Partnerships for Mentoring and Placements
University of California - Irvine: Teaching Assistant Consultants
University of California - San Francisco: Academic Writing Development Workshops
University of California - San Francisco: Professional & Academic Success Skills (P.A.S.S.) Program
University of Cincinnati: Academic Journal Policy Database
University of Washington: Survey on Mentoring Quality