A Data-Based Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States (with CD) (2011) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
2 Context and Motivation
2 Context and Motivation
Pages 17-26
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 17... ...
It is the process that generates highly educated scholars and researchers, significant research results, and avenues for innovation, thereby creating the leaders needed to produce the research advances that will create new careers and economic vitality for the nation.1 Doctoral education trains the professors of the future -- it inculcates the habits of mind necessary for productive research and scholarship. Doctoral education is intimately involved in the creation of scholars whose ideas will shape both future innovations and how Americans use and understand innovation as it changes their lives.
|
From page 18... ...
Colleges and universities across the United States and around the world rely on American doctoral programs to educate the next generation of faculty and professional researchers. Corporations depend on highly trained doctoral students ready to bring cutting-edge technology and science to their labs and offices.
|
From page 19... ...
These measures were addressed in the student questionnaire. No one source, of course, can answer all questions about all doctoral programs for all prospective doctoral students, funding agencies, or university administrators.
|
From page 20... ...
Furthermore, countries that provide doctoral study in English, such as Great Britain, Canada, and Australia, capitalized on the situation in the United States by moving rapidly to recruit more international students. Students from other countries enrolled in the entire range of doctoral programs were surveyed for this study.
|
From page 21... ...
doctoral education, is the responsibility of research universities, of state and federal government policy makers, of powerful funding agencies and foundations, and of all other stakeholders in the American doctorate and the vast research enterprise that depends on it. Race, Ethnicity, and Gender of American Doctoral Students Doctoral programs across the nation have recognized the implications of powerful demographic trends in the general growth of the population and in college graduation rates that shape the educated workforce in an increasingly knowledge-based economy.
|
From page 22... ...
In response to this situation, many universities have introduced programs to emphasize the importance of recruiting and supporting underrepresented minorities in virtually all fields, as well as the need to increase the presence of women in many of them. Such programs are a high priority of most graduate schools, which have developed procedures and funding mechanisms to encourage minority and female undergraduates to consider doctoral education and to provide support for women and minorities who enroll in doctoral programs.
|
From page 23... ...
More broadly, since the 1995 study doctoral education has benefited greatly from dramatic increases in enrollments of international students and of domestic minorities and women. These gains demonstrate the ongoing desirability of American doctoral education in an educational world increasingly shaped by intense global competition for exceptional students.
|
From page 24... ...
Which universities provide adequate health insurance programs and child care services for their doctoral students? Most universities now produce compelling statements in support of diversity in graduate education, but which doctoral programs demonstrate strong records in recruiting, retaining, and graduating underrepresented students?
|
From page 25... ...
Individual doctoral programs, whether they were expected to organize their own records or check the data supplied from central sources, or, as in most cases, both, put much time and effort into the data collection process. Faculty asked to fill out questionnaires providing information about their scholarly records responded at an exceptionally high rate, as did doctoral students in the five disciplines selected for an experimental student survey.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.