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Demystifying the Academic Research Enterprise: Becoming a Successful Scholar in a Complex and Competitive Environment
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Kelvin K. Droegemeier – MIT Press, 2023
The academic research enterprise is highly complex, involving multiple sectors of society and a vast array of approaches. In "Demystifying the Academic Research Enterprise," Kelvin K. Droegemeier shows next-generation scholars across all disciplines how to become more productive earlier in their career, as well as how to help shape the…
Descriptors: Scholarship, Competition, College Faculty, Grants
Challenges in Chemistry Graduate Education: A Workshop Summary
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National Academies Press, 2012
Chemistry graduate education is under considerable pressure. Pharmaceutical companies, long a major employer of synthetic organic chemists, are drastically paring back their research divisions to reduce costs. Chemical companies are opening new research and development facilities in Asia rather than in the United States to take advantage of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Chemistry, Graduate Study, Universities
Achieving an Inclusive Graduate Community. Inclusiveness Series.
Council of Graduate Schools, Washington, DC. – 2003
Since 1994, the Council of Graduate Schools has awarded the Peterson's Award for Innovation in Promoting an Inclusive Graduate Community to one graduate school each year for the leadership it has taken in modeling practices and programs for the graduate community as a whole. This volume is the first in a series that tries to bring the voices of…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Diversity (Institutional), Diversity (Student), Financial Support
Doctoral Programs in Marketing. Educational Workshop Series No. 2.
Littlefield, James E., Ed.; Shawver, Donald L., Ed. – 1977
The transcript of a workshop on doctoral education, this monograph is intended as an idea generator for those who teach doctoral students in marketing. Among the topics considered are the future of the Ph.D. in marketing, the ideal Ph.D. curriculum, the question of whether or not Ph.D. research can be more substantive, teaching Ph.D.'s to teach,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Conference Reports, Degree Requirements, Doctoral Degrees
The Administrative Aspects of Education for Librarianship: A Symposium.
Cassata, Mary B., Ed.; Totten, Herman L., Ed. – 1975
Some 25 contributors share their expertise on various aspects of the administration of library education programs. Subjects covered include the history of library education; accreditation standards; goals and objectives; curriculum; faculty; student characteristics, admissions, training, and evaluation; governance, administration, and financial…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Administration, Facilities, Financial Support
Of Time and the Doctorate: Report of an Inquiry into the Duration of Doctoral Study. SREB Research Monograph No. 9.
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Wilson, Kenneth M. – 1965
Research co-sponsored by the Conference of Deans of Southern Graduate Schools and the Southern Regional Education Board on the duration of doctoral study is reported in this book. Over 1,900 recipients of a doctoral degree (representing over l20 graduate departments) cooperated along with the graduate deans and selected faculty representatives.…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Comparative Analysis, Degree Requirements, Doctoral Degrees
The Research Student's Guide to Success.
Cryer, Pat – 1996
This practical guide offers a British perspective to beginning, pursuing, and completing a research degree and is designed to aid graduate students in addressing a wide range of new and unfamiliar roles, expectations, and needs. Some issues addressed are specific to foreign students. An introductory section describes the guide's rationale and…
Descriptors: College Choice, College Faculty, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Needs