Liberal Education Resources
Doctoral Education
Carnegie
Initiative on the Doctorate
The Carnegie
Initiative on the Doctorate (CID) is a multi-year research and action
project to support departments' efforts to more purposefully structure
their doctoral programs. We will work closely with the disciplinary communities,
as well as selected departments, in six fields of study.
Preparing
Future Faculty
A
project begun in 1993 by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), supported
by a grant from The Pew Charitable
Trusts, Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) is a national network
of academic leaders reshaping graduate education to prepare students for
the full range of faculty roles subsumed by the terms teaching, research,
and service. The PFF concept holds that doctoral students aspiring
to become faculty members require preparation not only to conduct research,
but also to teach and render service in a variety of institutions with
diverse student bodies. Doctoral degree-granting departments, partnering
with a cluster of similar academic departments in a wide range of institutions,
offer the appropriate laboratory for graduate students to learn about
future faculty responsibilities.
Graduate Education
This
site, developed by Scott and Bobbi Kerlin, is an evolving online directory
of research and resources pertaining to graduate education. Topics include
"Getting in to Grad School," "Surviving and Flourishing," "Adcademic Politics,"
"Grad Organizations," "Support Groups," "Journals and Publications," "Research
Papers and References," "Writing Your Thesis/Dissertation," "Professional
and Career Development," and "Gender Issues in Higher Education." The
editors encourage contributions from graduate students, faculty, researchers
and scholars interested in trends in graduate education in North America.
Graduate
School Professional Development Courses, University of Texas Consortium
Building
upon the national initiative Preparing Future Faculty (PFF), jointly sponsored
by the Association of American Colleges and Universities and the Council
of Graduate Schools, the Office of Graduate Studies at the University
of Texas at Austin established the Professional Development Program. Begun
in 1996, this program prepares graduate students to be intellectually
rigorous scholars and teachers (the next generation of professors), as
well as professionally astute citizens qualified to meet the needs of
society. The Graduate School offers 13 cross-disciplinary Graduate Student
Professional Development classes. These courses address topics such as
writing, ethics, consulting, pedagogy, communication, technology, and
multi-culturalism; the program includes both an academic as well as professional
internship course. The goal of the program and courses is to help graduate
students from all disciplines succeed in the academy, the public
sector, and private industry.
Re-envisioning
the Ph.D.
Re-envisioning the Ph.D. is a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts
that is developing ways to effect a national dialogue on how to re-envision
doctoral education to meet the societal needs of the 21st century. The
project aids in the preparation of graduate students as undergraduate
instructors and as future teaching scholars, and the project web site
contains an expanding set of promising practices in doctoral education
that are currently being used around the country. Also included is a synthesis
of concerns expressed from 365 interviews with stakeholders in doctoral
education, "Re-envisioning
Ph.D.: What Concerns Do We Have?".
The
Responsive PhD: An Initiative to Improve the Doctoral Experience in the
Arts and Sciences
This
new national initiative of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
aims to reform doctoral education by sharpening the findings of several
recent studies and projects on doctoral education, many of which have
been sponsored by The Pew Charitable Trusts, into recommendations for
action. With the cooperation of ten major universities, these recommendations
will be tested and innovations developed.
The
Survey on Doctoral Education and Career Preparation
This national survey of doctoral students, conducted in 1999, provides
a snapshot picture of their experiences and goals. Over 4,000 students
from 27 selected universities and one cross-institutional program, representing
11 arts and sciences disciplines, completed the 20-page survey. The summary
report, "At Cross Purposes: What the experiences of doctoral students
reveal about doctoral education," by Chris M. Golde and Timothy M. Dore,
was released in January 2001. The report was sponsored by The Pew Charitable
Trusts.
The
University of Texas Graduate School Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program
The Graduate School at the University of Texas at Austin developed and
administers the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program, with Richard A.
Cherwitz directing the program. Through 16 graduate-level, cross-disciplinary
courses and internships, eight doctoral and master's portfolio programs,
and a variety of workshops, the Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program
aims to produce "citizen-scholars" and to promote academic, cultural,
political, social, and economic change. The program's goal is to maximize
the value of graduate education for students and society at-large, enabling
students to own their education by deciding how best to contribute their
expertise and in what particular venues.
Survival
in The Academy
In
the early 1990's, the University of Indiana, Bloomington computer science
department put together a report on "Survival in the Academy." Most of
the material is still very much up to date and much of it is applicable
to graduate students and faculty in all disciplines. The material includes
sections on choosing a graduate advisor, survival skills for graduate
women, the ABD syndrome, an assistant professor's guide to the galaxy,
and an annual progress review checklist.
AAC&U offers these resources only as possible models of interest and has not submitted each of them to any substantial peer or quality review. If you have questions about any particular resource, please contact the institution sponsoring it directly.
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