Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
October 8 - 9, 2006
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| "Conference Agenda.pdf (PDF, 20 KB)" | Ronald Ehrenberg |
| Improving PhD Education (1) | |
|---|---|
| "The Graduate Education Initiative Description and Preliminary Findings.pdf (PDF, 157 KB)" | Ronald Ehrenberg (Cornell University), Jeffrey Groen (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), Harriet Zuckerman and Sharon Brucker (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) |
| "The Council of Graduate Schools' PhD Completion Project" * | Debra Stewart and Daniel Denecke (Council of Graduate Schools) |
| "Confronting Common Assumptions Designing Future Oriented Doctoral Education.pdf (PDF, 153 KB)" | Maresi Nerad (University of Washington) |
| Improving PhD Education (2) | |
| "Apprenticeship and Intellectual Community Lessons from the Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate.pdf (PDF, 232 KB)" | George Walker, Chris Golde, Laura Jones, and Andrea Bueschel (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching) |
| "Three Ways of Winning Doctoral Education Rate of Progress Degree Completion and Time to Degree.pdf (PDF, 134 KB)" | Michael Nettles and Catherine Millett (Educational Testing Service) |
| "Accounting for the Difference in PhD Creation Rates Across Liberal Arts Colleges.pdf (PDF, 88 KB)" | Robert Lemke (Lake Forest College) |
| "The Impact of Undergraduate Research Experiences on Student Intellectual Growth.pdf (PDF, 153 KB)" | Myles Boylan (National Science Foundation) |
| Increasing Representation of People of Color in the PhD Pool | |
| "What Universites Still Do Not Understand about Race in America.pdf (PDF, 68 KB)" | Richard Tapia and Cynthia Johnson (Rice University) |
| "Increasing Minority Representation in the Mathematical Sciences.pdf (PDF, 153 KB)." | Carlos Castillo-Chavez (Arizona State University) |
| "Curriculum Intensity in Graduate Preparatory Programs.pdf (PDF, 391 KB)" | Charles Becker (Duke University) and Gregory Price (Jackson State Unviersity) |
| "Assessing Programs to Improve Minority Participation in STEM Fields.pdf (PDF, 107 KB)" | Cheryl Leggon and Willie Pearson, Jr. (Georgia Institute of Technology) |
| Programs to Increase Representation of Women in Science and Engineering | |
| "Increasing Femaile Representation in the Life Sciences" * | Jong-on-Hahm (George Mason University) |
| "Attracting and Retaining Women in Engineering The Tufts Experience.pdf (PDF, 79 KB)" | Linda Abriola and Margery Davies (Tufts University) |
| Internationalization of Doctorate Education | |
| "Do Foreign Doctorates Displace Native Doctorates in American Universities.pdf (PDF, 77 KB)?" | Liang Zhang (University of Minnesota) |
| "Internationalization of US Doctorate Education.pdf (PDF, 261 KB)" | Sarah Turner (University of Virginia) and John Bound (University of Michigan) |
| "What the War on Terrorism has Meant for United States Colleges and Universities.pdf (PDF, 65 KB)" | Michael A. Olivas (University of Houston) |
| Dinner Speaker | |
| "TBA" * | Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson (President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)) |