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Project Background
2000 Conference
In October, 1999, a 21-member Advisory Board convened in Seattle, Washington to review the progress of the inventory and contribute to shaping the project's outcomes. Via structured discussions and informal interaction, the group agreed on three priorities for doctoral education to be addressed at an invitational conference in April, 2000 (see below):
- to re-examine the "essence" of the Ph.D., including length and composition of requirements;
- to enhance preparation of Ph.D.s for a variety of professional options;
- to increase the diversity of doctoral students who complete the Ph.D.
Based on the information thus far collected and analyzed, the Advisory Board also helped to determine further activities and avenues to pursue in order to complete the inventory. The intellectual capital of these important thinkers was vital to processing the ideas and conceptions, and to the construction of the final products of the inventory process.
The results of the best thinking of the Advisory Board and other important contributors were prepared in various forms for presentation the national conference on Re-envisioning the Ph.D., hosted by the Graduate School at the University of Washington, April 13, 14 & 15, 2000. Invited to the conference were leaders from various constituencies concerned about doctoral education: research-intensive universities, comprehensive and doctoral universities, liberal arts and community colleges, doctoral students, business and industry, foundations, government, disciplinary and educational associations, K-12 education, and accrediting agencies.
The Conference had four goals:
- to share promising practices that represent current efforts to enhance doctoral education;
- to develop meaningful dialogue within and across the sectors that will lead to change focused on the three priorities;
- to identify what each sector will contribute to moving forward on the three priorities;
- to establish commitments from each sector for planning and executing a set of actions.
The full Conference Program is available in PDF format. You will need Acrobat Reader software to view the PDF file.
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The conference was a unique occasion for the different sectors involved in doctoral education to come together, exchange opinions, strengthen agreements, and mutually establish an agenda for change. The plans and ideas generated by participants are listed under the Town Meeting, Next Steps and the Conference
Metathemes.
2000 Conference
Participants
We are grateful to the representatives from the many organizations, corporations, agencies, and institutions that have taken the time to participate in our project and to share with us their perspectives on doctoral
education:
American Anthropological
Association
American Assembly
Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)-The International Association for
Management Education
American Association for
Higher Education
American Association for
the Advancement of Science
American Association of
Colleges of Nursing
American Association of
State Colleges and Universities
American Association of
Universities
American Chemical
Society
American Historical
Association
American Institute of
Chemical Engineers
American Institute of
Physics
American Musicological
Society
American Philosophical
Association
American Physical
Society
American Political
Science Association
American Psychological
Association
American Society for
Microbiology
American Society of
Mechanical Engineers
American Sociological
Association
Annenberg Institute for
School Reform
Antioch University
Arizona State
University, School of Accountancy & Information
Arizona State
University-West
Associated New American
Colleges
Associated Western
Universities
Association of American
Colleges and Universities
Association of American
Geographers
Association of Directors
of Doctoral Programs in Business
Association of Graduate
Schools
Bainbridge Island School
District
Board of Regents of the
University System of Georgia
Borough of Manhattan
Community College
Boston College
Boston Globe
Bowling Green State
University
Bronx Community College
Brown University
Cabrillo College
California State
University, Fresno
Claremont Graduate
University
Columbia University
Council of Chemical
Research (CCR)
Council of Colleges of
Arts and Sciences
Council of Graduate
Schools
Council on Social Work
Education
David and Lucile Packard
Foundation
Drake University
Educational Testing
Service
Elon College
Exxon Mobil Research
& Engineering Co.
Florida Agricultural and
Mechanical University
Gates Education
Initiative
Georgia Institute of
Technology
Graduate Management
Admission Council
Group for the
Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work
Hampton University
Harvard University
Higher Education
Programs, U.S. Dept of Agriculture
Highline Community
College
Hoffman-La Roche, Inc.
Howard Hughes Medical
Institute, University of California, San Diego
Howard University
Hudson County Community
College
ICOS Corporation
Immunex
Indiana University
Indiana
University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Institute for Advanced
Study
Institute for Electrical
and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Institute for K-12
Leadership, University of Washington
Institute for Systems
Biology
Institute of Management
Accountants
Intel Corporation
International Institute
for Aerospace Survey and Earth Sciences
Iona College
Kentucky Council on
Postsecondary Education
Library of Congress
Malaspina
University-College
Menlo College,
University of Michigan
Merck Research
Laboratories
Michigan State
University
Michigan Technological
University
Microsoft Research
Modern Language
Association Graduate Student Caucus
National Aeronautical
and Space Administration (NASA)
National Association of
Graduate and Professional Students (NAGPS)
National Black Graduate
Student Association, Inc.
National Communication
Association
National Endowment for
the Humanities
National Institute for
Science Education (NISE)
National Institutes of
Health / NCI Cancer Training Branch
National Institutes of
Health / National Institute of General Medical Sciences
National League for
Nursing Accrediting Commission
National Research
Council
National Science
Foundation
North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical State University
North Carolina State
University-Raleigh
North Seattle Community
College
Oakton Community College
Ohio Board of Regents
Ohio State University
Oklahoma State Regents
for Higher Education
Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory
Pew Health Professional
Commission
Portland State
University
Procter & Gamble
Professional and
Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Project Kaleidoscope
Proskauer Rose, LLP
Puyallup School District
Rutgers University
San Jose State
University
Society for Industrial
and Applied Mathematics
South Kitsap School
District
Southern Regional
Educational Board (SREB) Doctoral Scholars Program
Stanford University
State Board for
Community and Technical Colleges
State Higher Education
Executive Officers
State of Washington,
Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Strategic Marketing
Corp./United Information Group
Susquehanna University
Syracuse University
Technical University of
British Columbia
Temple University
The Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation
The Camille and Henry
Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
The Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching
The Chronicle of Higher
Education
The John D. &
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
The Pew Charitable
Trusts
The Society for
Ethnomusicology
The Spencer Foundation
The Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation
U.S. Department of
Agriculture
U.S. Department of
Energy
University of
Alabama-Birmingham
University of
California, Berkeley
University of
California, Irvine
University of
California, San Diego
University of Cincinnati
University of
Cincinnati, College of Business
University of Kansas,
Graduate and Professional Association
University of Maryland
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill
University of
Pennsylvania
University of Washington
University of
Washington, School of Nursing
University of
Wisconsin-Madison
Walden University
Washington State
University
Washington University
Western Interstate
Commission for Higher Education
Weyerhaeuser Company
White House Initiative
on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans
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