| Description |
ix, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Changing the education of scholars: an introduction to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Graduate Education Initiative / Ronald G. Ehrenberg ... [et al.] -- The Council of Graduate Schools' PhD completion project / Daniel D. Denecke, Helen S. Frasier, Kenneth E. Redd -- Advocating apprenticeship and intellectual community: lessons from the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate / Chris M. Golde ... [et al.] -- Three ways of winning doctoral education: rate of progress, degree completion, and time to degree / Catherine M. Millett, Michael T. Nettles -- Confronting common assumptions: designing future-oriented doctoral education / Maresi Nerad -- Generating doctoral degree candidates at liberal arts colleges / Robert J. Lemke -- Undergraduate STEM research experiences: impact on student interest in doing graduate work in STEM fields / Myles Boylan -- Minority students in science and math: what universities still do not understand about race in America / Richard Tapia, Cynthia Johnson -- The Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute: a successful model for increasing minority representation in the mathematical sciences / Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Carlos Castillo-Garsow -- |
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Curriculum intensity in graduate preparatory programs: the impact on performance and progression to graduate study among minority students in economics / Charles Becker, Gregory Price -- Assessing programs to improve minority participation in the STEM fields: what we know and what we need to know / Cheryl Leggon, Willie Pearson Jr. -- First a glass ceiling, now a glass cliff? The changing picture for women in science and higher education careers / M. R. C. Greenwood -- Increasing women's representation in the life sciences / Jong-on Hahm |
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Attracting and retaining women in engineering: the Tufts University experience / Linda Abriola, Margery Davies -- Do foreign doctorate recipients displace U.S. doctorate recipients at U.S. universities? / Liang Zhang -- Opening (and closing) doors: country-specific shocks in U.S. doctoral education / Emily Blanchard, John Bound, Sarah Turner -- What the "war on terror" has meant for U.S. colleges and universities / Michael A. Olivas -- Looking to the future / Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Charlotte V. Kuh |
| Summary |
"In Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future, scientists, social scientists, academic administrators, and policymakers describe their efforts to increase and improve the supply of future faculty. They cover topics ranging from increasing undergraduate interest in doctoral study to improving the doctoral experience and the participation of under-represented groups in doctoral education."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Papers originally presented at a conference held in Oct. 2006 at the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-291) and indexes |
| Subject |
Doctor of philosophy degree -- United States -- Congresses.
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Universities and colleges -- United States -- Graduate work -- Congresses.
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Universities and colleges -- United States -- Faculty -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.
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Kuh, Charlotte V.
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Cornell Higher Education Research Institute.
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| LC no. |
2008027723 |
| ISBN |
9780801445439 cloth alkaline paper |
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0801445434 cloth alkaline paper |
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