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8 Scholarly Research: Oxymoron, Redundancy, or Necessity?
8 Scholarly Research: Oxymoron, Redundancy, or Necessity?
Pages 82-88
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LaPidus Council of Graduate Schools INTRODUCTION In 1991, the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) , an organization of some 420 institutions that grant approximately 98 percent of the doctoral degrees awarded in the United States, published the results of a study entitled The Role and Nature of the Doctoral Dissertations Briefly, the study involved 50 universities, all of which were asked to respond to a survey about dissertations, using whatever campuswide group the institution usually convened to consider broad questions related to graduate education.
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3Burton R Clark, ea., The Research Foundations of Graduate Education: Germany, Britain, France, United States, Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993~.
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5Report of the Temporary International Consultative Committee on New Organisational Forms of Graduate Education, Postgraduate Research Training Today: Emerging Structures for a Changing Europe (The Hague: Netherlands Ministry of Education and Science, 1991~. 6Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Realizing Our Potential: A Strategy for Science, Engineering and Technology (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Of lice, 1993~.
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The report Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers arose in part from this kind of concern. The American research university was defined by Robert Rosenzweig some years ago as a place "whose mores and practices make it clear that enlar.gin.g and disseminating knowledge are equally important activities and that each is done better when both are done in the same place by the same people." 9 This once unique and now almost stereotypical kind of university provides a setting for graduate education that involves doing research and learning to do research as parts of the same process.
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"To be a member of a team directed by a distant and very busy leader, building just one technical link in a complicated experiment, is an inadequate apprenticeship to the art; it is as if the pupils of Rubens were to be accounted artists after five years of painting in the buttons on his larger compositions. High technical standards may be achieved by the student, without a grasp of the deeper intellectual issues." The point is that graduate education must be more than a simple apprenticeship, and that research in this context must be more than a technical exercise for producing research results.
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I was in Denmark a 14Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPUP) of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine, Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1995~.
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I was in Denmark about 4 or 5 years ago, as well as Sweden and Norway, talking about changes in the graduate education system in the United States and found very similar things going on there. Charles Zukoski, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: think I can point to Ph.D.
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