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CIRGE book, Toward a Global PhD? – now in Chinese
CIRGE’s book Toward a Global PhD? (University of Washington, 2008), edited by Maresi Nerad and Mimi Heggelund has been getting national and international coverage. It was recently translated into Chinese and published in China. In addition, the National Science Board’s Science and Engineering Indicators 2010 includes a sidebar that displays the global trends in doctoral education identified in the book.
May 20 2010 11:34 am
Dr. Nerad member of NSF Panel on Gender and Science
Maresi Nerad was invited to speak on the panel “Gender and Science: International Perspectives” on June 2, 2010. The audience will be primarily program officers and other staff members from the National Science Foundation who are interested in learning more about various country’s approaches to increase the participation of women and minorities in science. The panelists have been asked to address:
1. What do you think are the unique issues (if any) for women in science, technology, mathematics and engineering in your country, for example, larger political climate, cultural issues, etc. that create specific opportunities or barriers for women’s advancement in STEM?
2. What do you think your country/your institution has specifically done well to promote women and men from minority groups in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields?
3. What best practice models have been most successful in raising the participation of women and men from minority groups in science? What about furthering innovative research in the area of gender & science more broadly speaking?
4. What are the key insights you have learned from your approaches? What challenges have arisen and how have you addressed them?
5. What experiences/results do you think might translate well to other places?
This panel is supported by Northeastern University’s ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Project, “Advancing Women in Interdisciplinary and International Networks,” and is sponsored by the Office of International Science and Engineering and the ADVANCE program of the National Science Foundation.
May 18 2010 02:26 pm
Maresi Nerad presents lead paper at INORMS conference in Capetown
Dr. Nerad presented a lead paper at the third INORMS (International Network of Research Management Societies) conference in Capetown in April. INORMS was formed in 2001 to bring together research management societies and associations from across the globe. Its purpose is to enable interactions, sharing of good practice, and joint activities between the member societies, to the benefit of their individual memberships. The INORMS 2010 conference theme – Managing for Impact: New Approaches to Research and Innovation Management – was embodied by eight thematic sessions,: Impact in the research institution; Impact on the research and innovation process; Impact on innovation; Impact on social and economic development; Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) for research and innovation excellence; Building a 21st century profession; Diversifying the funding base by internationalising the higher education research platform; and Developing the next generation of researchers. Dr. Nerad’s paper was titled Developing the next generation of researchers: A coordinated effort of many levels. She was also a member of the leadership panel.
The conference was hosted by The Southern African Research and Innovation Management Association (SARIMA) in collaboration with the Association for Commonwealth Universities (ACU) and was attended by over 400 delegates from 40 countries including the South Africa Minister for Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor MP. The proceedings from the Conference will be published as a special edition of an accredited South African academic journal, the Acta Academica.
April 20 2010 03:07 pm
Dr. Rudd speaks at EUA Workshop and NSF
Elizabeth Rudd, CIRGE senior researcher, gave a keynote talk at the European University Association-Council for Doctoral Education’s April 15-16 2010 Workshop “Building a Research Environment for Doctoral Education” in Wageningen, the Netherlands. Her return to Seattle was delayed by the volcanic eruption in Iceland.
On May 13, Dr. Rudd gave a talk at the National Science Foundation’s Division of Science Resource Statistics featuring findings on the quality of skills training and gender equality from CIRGE’s national survey of social science PhD recipients.
EUA Presentation Improving PhD Quality in the Small Worlds of Academia
April 17 2010 02:19 pm
Two new articles by Dr. Nerad
Maresi Nerad has recently had two articles – based on keynote speeches she has given in Canada and Japan - published:
Nerad, M. (2010) Globalization and the Interantionalization of Graduate Education: A Macro and Micro View. Canadian Journal of Higher Education. Volume 40, Issue 1.
Nerad, M. (2010). Increase in PhD Production and Reform in Doctoral Education Worldwide. Higher Education Forum. Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan. Vol 7. March.
March 20 2010 11:43 am
Maresi Nerad guest at the Technical University of Darmstadt
CIRGE Director, Maresi Nerad, was invited by the president of the Technical University of Darmstadt to providing consultation to the president’s office and the appropriate campus committees on:
1. internationalizing graduate and postdoctoral education and training
2. providing campus-wide guidelines for a future-oriented doctoral and postdoctoral education and training
3. helping to develop ideas for more structured professional development offerings for doctoral and postdoctoral fellows
She will be in Germany from April to September 2010.
March 18 2010 02:14 pm
Director Nerad appointed to NSF Advisory Committee
Maresi Nerad has been appointed to the NSF Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering, a 3 year appointment until December 2013. Established in 2005, the purpose of the Advisory Committee is to provide advice, recommendations and oversight concerning support for research, education and related activities involving the U.S. science and engineering community working within a global context, as well as strategic efforts to promote a more effective NSF role in international science and engineering.
Members of the Advisory Committee are asked to:
- Review and advise on the impact of research and education programs supported by the Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE);
- Advise OISE on program management, overall program balance, and other aspects of program performance;
- Advise OISE on program management, overall program balance, and other aspects of program performance;
- Advise OISE on its stewardship of NSF’s international leadership in science and engineering and of NSF’s partnership with other countries and other agencies
- Advise on NSF-wide strategic goals and initiatives in the international science and engineering research and education arena; and
- Advise on the impact of NSF and/or USG policies on the OISE community.
March 04 2010 03:32 pm
CIRGE Report on Postdocs from PhD-Ten Years Later Survey Published
CIRGE has completed an analysis of the data from their PhD –Ten Years Later survey regarding the outcomes of a prestigious postdoc position. Funded by the Sloan Foundation, this report, The Influence of Postdoctoral Training on Prestige and Time in Academic Careers: Findings from PhD’s—Ten Years Later, A National Survey of PhD Careers, examines the role of the postdoc in careers of PhD biochemists and mathematicians. Based on 10 or more years of career path data from more than 600 biochemists and 700 mathematicians who earned their doctorate between 1983 and 1985, we found that, in relation to attainment of prestigious faculty positions:
• The reputational rank of the PhD program far outweighed the impact of postdoctoral prestige;
• The reputational rank of the PhD program and performance in graduate school (publications, time-to-degree) were usually more important than demographic variables, however, in some analyses women, temporary residents and non-whites had lower chances of attaining a prestigious professorship;
• Years spent in postdocs did not decrease the amount of time biochemists spend on tenure track; however, mathematicians apparently got “credit” for postdoc years that shortened the time ultimately spent on tenure track.
Authors: Elizabeth Rudd, Joseph Piciano, Maresi Nerad, Joseph Cerny
February 28 2010 02:35 pm
Confronting Common Assumptions: Designing Future-Oriented Doctoral Education
Nerad, Maresi (2008). Confronting Common Assumptions: Designing Future-Oriented Doctoral Education. Ron Ehrenberg and Charlotte Kuh (eds). Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
January 19 2010 11:15 am
CIRGE Director on Advisory Board for Univ of Wisc NSF Grant
Maresi Nerad is serving on the advisory board for a multi-year grant received by the University of Wisconsin from the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program to conduct a study of the effects of future-faculty professional development programs on doctoral students in the STEM disciplines.
This study will examine the short- and long-term effects of future-faculty professional development programs on STEM doctoral students and their early career performance. Using a mixed-methods design, it will follow a number of STEM doctoral students currently enrolled at three major US research universities: Arizona State University, the University of Washington, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to annually interviewing doctoral students who have participated in future-faculty professional development programs, they will survey a large random sample of STEM doctoral students at each institution in the first and fifth years of the study.
January 15 2010 03:38 pm