Re-envisioning eNews

Date: April 1, 2002
Subject:  Re-envisioning the Ph.D. Update

We are pleased to report that we are averaging over 200,000 hits a month on our website! Our  clearinghouse of ideas is being used by a wide range of folks involved in preparing, funding, and hiring Ph.D.’s and by aspiring and current doctoral students. We are gratified that so many people are interested in re-envisioning the Ph.D. for the 21st Century.

In fact, since we have received so much traffic on our “Ph.D. Career Resources” site, we are updating and expanding these resources into two divisions: “Obtaining a Ph.D.” and “Obtaining Employment.” They are linked off of our homepage: http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision under “Ph.D. Resources” http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/phd/index.html This is one of the most comprehensive collections of doctoral student resources currently available on-line. Our goal is to get the information on these sites into the hands of doctoral students in order to help them not just survive but thrive in graduate school and beyond. Please forward this email to interested colleagues and students.

This month’s headlines include an update on the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation’s Responsive Ph.D. Initiative—exciting news. We are featuring an interesting article by Kathryn Adams on what employing institutions want in new faculty and the preliminary results of the American Historical Society’s Survey of doctoral programs.

In addition, our new menu drop-down feature allows for easier navigation of our website. It is now possible to position your pointer over a menu item, and the subcategories under it will become visible. By clicking on the subcategory you are interested in, you can skip the step of loading intermediate pages.

As always, we invite you to review the “Current News and Updates”: http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/news/index.html 
and we welcome new Promising Practices from your institution or organization: http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/practices/promprac_submit.html 
Please send comments to: envision@u.washington.edu

We appreciate your continued participation in the effort to effect change in doctoral education.

Jody Nyquist

Jody D. Nyquist
Associate Dean, The Graduate School
Principal Investigator, Re-envisioning the Ph.D. Project
University of Washington
396 Bagley, Box 351725
Seattle, WA 98195-1725
(206) 543-6588
Fax: (206) 685-1213
Email: nyquist@u.washington.edu

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