Studies in Doctoral Education:

These studies in doctoral education, listed alphabetically by author, are a rough cross-section of the current research being done on the topic. These citations are by no means comprehensive, and we welcome suggestions for further additions at envision@u.washington.edu. 

Citations below are broken into two sections, "Studies Online" and "Publications," depending on whether the study is available online or in paper form.

Studies Online

• Association of American Universities (1998, October). Committee on Graduate Education: Report and Recommendations. Retrieved from http://www.aau.edu/reports/GradEdRpt.html. 
  
  
• Department of Education. (2000). Digest of Education Statistics 2000: Post Secondary Education, U.S. Doctoral Degrees Granted. Retrieved from
  http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/digest/dt248.html.
  
  
• Freeman, R.; Weinstein, E.; Marincola, E.; Rosenbaum, J.; Solomon, F. (2001, August). Careers and Rewards in Bio Sciences: the disconnect between scientific progress and career progression. Retrieved from http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/resources/CareersBiosciences.pdf .
  
  
• Golde, C.; Dore, T. (2001). At Cross Purposes: What the Experience of Today's Doctoral Students Reveal about Doctoral Education. Retrieved from http://www.phd-survey.org/.
  
  
• Johnson, J. (2000, December). Presentation on the Survey of Earned Doctorates.
  Retrieved from http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/resources/earned_docs.pdf.
  
  
• Katz, P. (2001, April). CGE's E-Mail Survey Focuses on Challenges in Graduate Training.
  Retrieved from http://www.theaha.org/perspectives/issues/2001/0104/0104aha5.cfm.
  
  
• Kuh, C. (1997). Is There a Ph.D. Glut? Retrieved from http://www.cgsnet.org/vcr/kuh.htm. 
  
  
• Magner, D. (1998). Survey suggests teaching may be getting more emphasis at research universities. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/che-data/articles.dir/art-44.dir/issue-18.dir/18a01601.htm. Note: subscription required to access article.
  
  
• Millet, C.; Nettles, M. (2000). Race and Sex and Field Differences in Doctoral Student Experiences. Retrieved from
  http://www.nettlesmillett.org/presentations_events/CGS_2000_Present.pdf.
  
  
• National Association of Graduate-Professional Students. (2001, October).
   The 2000 National Doctoral Program Survey. Retrieved from http://survey.nagps.org/.
  
  
• National Center for Education Statistics. (2002). "Full-time instructional faculty in degree-granting institutions, by race/ethnicity, academic rank, and sex: Fall 1999." Digest of Education Statistics, 2001.
  Retrieved from http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/digest2001/tables/dt229.asp.
  
  
• National Center for Education Statistics. (2002). "Earned Degrees Conferred: Doctor's Degrees." Projections of Education Statistics to 2012. Retrieved from http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/proj2012/ch_4.asp#4.
  
  
• National Center for Education Statistics. (1995). New Doctoral Recipients Taking Jobs in Higher Education, By Field of Study. Retrieved from http://nces.ed.gov/pubs/ce/c9534a01.html.
  
  
• National Center for Education Statistics. (2002). 
  Ricccobono, J.A., Cominole, M.B., Siegel, P.H., Gabel, T.J., Link, M.W., and Berkner, L.K.
  National Postsecondary Student Aid Study 1999-2000 (NPSAS:2000) Methodology Report (NCES 2002-152). Retrieved from http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/quarterly/summer/5-1.asp.
  
  
• National Education Association Research Center. (2001, June). Tenure. Retrieved from http://www.nea.org/he/heupdate/vol7no3.pdf.
  
  
• National Institutes of Health, Office of Extramural Research. (2001, March).
  The Early Career Progress of NRSA Predoctoral Trainees and Fellows. Retrieved from http://grants.nih.gov/training/career_progress/index.htm.
  
  
• National Opinion Research Center. (1999). Summary Report, 1998. Doctorate Recipients from the United States. Survey of Earned Doctorates. Chicago: University of Chicago. Retrieved from http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/srs00410/pdf/srs00410.pdf.
  
  
• National Research Council, National Academy Press. (1998). Trends in the Early Careers of Life Scientists, Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel. Retrieved from http://books.nap.edu/catalog/6244.html.
  
  
• National Research Council Staff Board on Chemical Sciences Staff. (2000). Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences - Issues for the 21st Century: Report of a Workshop. Washington, DC: National Academy Press. http://books.nap.edu/books/0309071305/html/
  
  
• National Science Board. (2002). Science and Engineering Indicators—2002. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation. Retrieved May 30, 2002, from http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind02/ and http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind02/pdf/c02.pdf.
  
  
• National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Education, National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (2002). United States Universities: Summary Report 2001, Survey of Earned Doctorates.  Retrieved from http://www.norc.uchicago.edu/issues/sed-2001.pdf.
  
  
• Nerad, M.; Cerny, J. (2002, August-September). 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. Council of Graduate Schools Communicator, 35(7).  Retrieved from http://www.educ.washington.edu/COEWebSite/Cirge/pdfs%20for%20web/cgs1.pdf.
  
  
• Nerad, M.; Cerny, J. (1999). From Rumors to Facts: Career Outcomes of English Ph.D.’s., Results from the Ph.D.’s—Ten Years Later Study. Council of Graduate Schools Communicator, 32(7).  Retrieved from http://www.educ.washington.edu/COEWebSite/Cirge/HTML/publications.html.
  
  
• Nyquist, J.; Woodford, B. (2000). Re-envisioning the Ph.D.: What Concerns Do We Have?  Seattle, Washington: Center for Instructional Development and Research and University of Washington. Retrieved from http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/project_resources/concerns.html. 
  
  
• Re-envisioning the PhD. (2000). Seven Propositions from the National Conference. Center for Instructional Development and Research, University of Washington. Retrieved from  http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/project_resources/metathemes.html.
  
  
• Science Advisory Board. (2002, May). Motivations for Publishing and Presenting in the Life Science and Medical Professions. Retrieved from
  http://www.scienceboard.net/s/s017/www.scienceboard.net.pdf.
  
  
• Smith, S., Pedersen-Gallegos, C., & Riegle-Crumb, C. (2002). The training, careers, and work of Ph.D. physical scientists: Not simply academic. American Journal of Physics, 70, (11). 1081-1092. Retrieved from http://ojps.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=AJPIAS&Volume=70&Issue=11
  
  
• Syverson, P. (1997). Coping with Conflicting Data: The Employment Status of Recent Science and Engineering Ph.D.’s. Retrieved from http://www.cgsnet.org/vcr/cctr506.htm. 
  
  
• Syverson, P. (1997). It’s Not Just Employment/Unemployment Anymore—Realities of Ph.D. labor market lead to more complex measures of postgraduate employment.
  Retrieved from http://www.cgsnet.org/vcr/cctr704.htm.
  
  
• Syverson, P. (1997). When Simulation Becomes Reality: Press Reaction to Massy/Goldman Study Creates Erroneous Message. Retrieved from http://www.cgsnet.org/vcr/cctr508.htm.
  
  
• Trower, C. A., Ann E.; Sorcinelli, Mary Deane. (2001). Paradise Lost: How the academy converts enthusiastic recruits into early-career doubters. AAHE Bulletin, May 2001, 53(9), 3-6. Retrieved from http://www.aahebulletin.com/public/archive/paradiselost.asp.

Publications

• Committee on Science Engineering and Public Policy. (1995). Reshaping the graduate education of scientists and engineers. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
  
  

• Davis, G., and Fiske, P. (2001). The 1999 PhDs.Org Graduate School Survey Report of Results. AAAS Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs, vol. 3 (1), January 2001. 
  
  

• Fine Knowles, M.; Harleston, B. (1997). Achieving Diversity in the Professoriate: Challenges and Opportunities. American Council on Education.
  
  

• Gaff, J.; Pruitt-Logan, A.; Weibl, R. (2000). Building the Faculty We Need: Colleges and Universities Working Together. Association of American Colleges and Universities and the Council of Graduate Schools.
  
  

• Lovitts, B. Leaving the Ivory Tower: The Causes and Consequences of Departure from Doctoral Study. (2001). Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield Publishers. Funded by the Sloan Foundation. 
  
  

• Malcom, S.; Van Horne, V.; Gaddy, C.; George, Y. (1998). Losing ground: Science and engineering graduate education of Black and Hispanic Americans. American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  
  

• National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences. (1995). Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Continuity and Change. Washington, DC: NAS. 
  Summary available online at: http://books.nap.edu/html/researchdoc/
  
  

• National Research Council, National Academy Press. (1998). Trends in the Early Careers of Life Scientists, Office of Scientific and Engineering Personnel. Summary available online at: http://books.nap.edu/catalog/6244.html 
  
  

• National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Studies. (1998). Statistical profiles of foreign doctoral recipients in science and engineering: Plans to stay in the United States. Arlington: National Science Foundation.
  
  

• Nerad, M. M., Sands, D. (1996). Increasing student retention in graduate and professional programs. In J. G. Haworth (Ed.), New Directions for Institutional Research: Assessing graduate and professional education: Current realities, future prospects (Vol. 92, pp. 61-76). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
  
  

• Nerad, M. (1995). University of California, Berkeley: Beyond Traditional Modes of Mentoring. In N. A. Gaffney (Ed.), A Conversation about Mentoring: Trends and Models. (pp. 18-24). Washington, D.C.: Council of Graduate Schools. 
  
  

• Nyquist, J., Austin, A., Sprague, J. & Wulff, D. (2001). Development of Graduate Students. In The Development of Graduate Students as Prospective Teaching Scholars, A Four-Year Longitudinal Study: Final Report. Center for Instructional Development and Research, University of Washington.
  
  

• Smith, S., Pedersen-Gallegos, C., & Riegle-Crumb, C. (2002). The training, careers, and work of Ph.D. physical scientists: Not simply academic. American Journal of Physics, 70, (11). 1081-1092. Retrieved from http://ojps.aip.org/dbt/dbt.jsp?KEY=AJPIAS&Volume=70&Issue=11