These podcasts dropped March - July 2024
What is the April 15th Resolution?
Consider these questions when interviewing a potential research advisor.
In this episode, we discuss the role of the Graduate Records Examination (GRE) in graduate admissions and whether or not it is advisable to take it.
The Graddean lampoons a Moneywatch article from 2012 to dispel some common myths about getting the PhD.
1. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/12-reasons-not-to-get-a-phd/
2. Survey of Earned Doctorates, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, 2022, https://ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/earned-doctorates/2022
3. Learning and Earning by Degrees, Georgetown University, 2024 https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/CEW-attainment-gains-full_report.pdf
6. Doctoral Initiative on Minority Attrition and Completion, Council of Graduate Schools, 2015 https://cgsnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Doctoral_Initiative_on_Minority_Attrition_and_Completion-2015.pdf
7. The Role of Food Stamps in the Recession https://www.bostonfed.org/publications/communities-and-banking/2012/fall/the-role-of-food-stamps-in-the-recession.aspx
9. Is Grad School Worth It? A Comprehensive Return on Investment Analysis https://freopp.org/is-graduate-school-worth-it-a-comprehensive-return-on-investment-analysis-a84644f29f9
11. https://www.aaup.org/file/2022_AAUP_Survey_of_Tenure_Practices.pdf
12. Early Career Doctorates Survey (ECDS), National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, 2017 https://ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/early-career-doctorates/2017
13. https://www.amacad.org/humanities-indicators/workforce/job-satisfaction-humanities-phd-recipients
14. Are 81% of drivers actually happy with Uber? USAToday, 2015, https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/roadwarriorvoices/2015/12/08/are-81-of-drivers-actually-happy-with-uber-or-did-uber-release-selective-data/83074696/
15. The Path Forward: The Future of Graduate Education in the United States, 2011 https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED509441.pdf
16. Anthony T. Grafton and Jim Grossman, “No More Plan B”, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 9, 2011, https://www.chronicle.com/article/no-more-plan-b/?sra=true
17. Biomedical Research Workforce Working Group Report, 2012, https://acd.od.nih.gov/documents/reports/Biomedical_research_wgreport.pdf
https://www.chronicle.com/article/most-presidents-prefer-no-tenure-for-majority-of-faculty/?sra=true
https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/cew-college_payoff_2021-fr.pdf
National Survey of College Graduates, 2021 https://ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/national-survey-college-graduates/2021
National Center for Education Statistics https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=40
Survey of Earned Doctorates, December 2023 https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf24300/report/postgraduation-trends
The Graddean interviews the President of the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students (NAGPS) to learn more about Celebrating Graduate Students month.
Exactly what it says.
The Way We Was, The Simpsons, 1991, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_We_Was
Risky Business excerpt, https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=tom+cruise+risky+business+university+of+illinois#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:70e86e1e,vid:iFabpS3gAr8,st:0
The 50 Greatest Yogi Berra Quotes, USAToday, https://ftw.usatoday.com/2019/03/the-50-greatest-yogi-berra-quotes
Freewill, Rush, 1980, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freewill_(song)
Homer the Heretic, The Simpsons, 1992, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_the_Heretic
What flavors do advanced degrees come in? The Graddean tackles the "professional vs. academic" and "master's vs. PhD" paradigms with an analogy to baking a pie crust.
1. US Department of Education Institutional Accrediting Agencies https://www2.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/accreditation_pg3.html#RegionalInstitutional
2. Survey of Earned Doctorates, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, 2022, https://ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/earned-doctorates/2022
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. The Graddean describes some unique aspects of mental wellbeing in graduate students and provides some resources to students, staff, and administrators to improve wellbeing on campus.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline https://988lifeline.org/
The Mental Health Hotline at 866-903-3787 can answer your questions confidentially and free of charge. https://mentalhealthhotline.org/
Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a volunteer Crisis Counselor https://www.crisistextline.org/
Council of Graduate Schools, & The Jed Foundation. (2021). Supporting graduate student mental health and well-being: Evidence-informed recommendations for the graduate community. https://cgsnet.org/project/graduate-student-mental-health-and-well-being
The JED Foundation, https://jedfoundation.org/
Distribution of doctorate recipients in the United States in 2021, by age group:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/240152/age-distribution-of-us-doctorate-recipients/
University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Leave of Absence policy: https://rackham.umich.edu/navigating-your-degree/leave-of-absence/
1. Arain, M., Haque, M., Johal, L., Mathur, P., Nel, W., Rais, A., . . . Sharma, S. (2013). Maturation of the adolescent brain. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 9, 449-461. https://doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S39776
2. Evans, T. M., Bira, L., Gastelum, J. B., Weiss, L. T., & Vanderford, N. L. (2018). Evidence for a mental health crisis in graduate education. Nature biotechnology, 36(3), 282-284.
3. Lee, J. J. (2021). Unique challenges and opportunities for supporting mental health and promoting the well-being of international graduate students. Council of Graduate Schools.
4. Park, K. E., Sibalis, A., & Jamieson, B. (2021). The mental health and well-being of master’s and doctoral psychology students at an urban Canadian university. International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 16, 429.
5. Villarroel, M. A., & Terlizzi, E. P. (2020). Symptoms of depression among adults: United States, 2019.
Individual Development Plans are finding increasing use to assist graduate students with their career development goals. Some grad schools or programs even require them! Find out more here.
American Chemical Society ChemIDP https://chemidp.acs.org/
AAAS myIDP https://myidp.sciencecareers.org
Imagine PhD, https://www.imaginephd.com/
1. Chang, C.-N., & Saw, G. K. (2021). Individual development plan, mentoring support, and career optimism among STEM graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting
2. Hobin, J. A., Clifford, P. S., Dunn, B. M., Rich, S., & Justement, L. B. (2014). Putting PhDs to Work: Career Planning for Today's Scientist. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 13(1), 49-53. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe-13-04-0085
3. National Academies of Sciences, E., and Medicine. (2019). The science of effective mentorship in STEMM. https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25568/the-science-of-effective-mentorship-in-stemm
As of May 20, 2024, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently instituted a required Mentoring Plan and certification of the use of Individual Development Plans (IDPs) for all graduate students and postdoctoral scholars funded on grants. In this episode, we discuss Mentoring Plans, IDPs, and how to use them effectively.
Individual Development Plans, National Institutes of Health, https://www.nigms.nih.gov/training/strategicplanimplementationblueprint/Pages/IndividualDevelopmentPlans.aspx
Mentoring Plan Requirements, Grant Proposal Guide 24-1, National Science Foundation, https://new.nsf.gov/policies/pappg/24-1/ch-2-proposal-preparation#ch2D2i-i
America COMPETES Act 2022 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-117publ167/pdf/PLAW-117publ167.pdf
CHIPS Act of 2022
Imagine PhD, https://www.imaginephd.com/
National Academies of Sciences, E., and Medicine. (2019). The science of effective mentorship in STEMM. https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25568/the-science-of-effective-mentorship-in-stemm
There's a lot of talk about the value of a college education, much less an advanced degree. In this episode, the Grad Dean discusses the impact an advanced degree can have on leadership.
Anthony P. Carnevale, Jeff Strohl, Kathryn Peltier Campbell, Artem Gulish, Ban Cheah, Emma Nyhof, and Lillian Fix. Learning and Earning by Degrees: Gains in College Degree Attainment Have Enriched the Nation and Every State, but Racial and Gender Inequality Persists. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2024. https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/attainmentgains/ .
https://www.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/edupathwaysofleadersreport_final.pdf
https://www.study.eu/article/the-academic-backgrounds-of-the-worlds-most-powerful-ceos
Episode 11 dealt with the general benefit advanced degrees have on our society in the development of leaders. In this companion episode, the Grad Dean focuses on the personal benefits you can obtain from getting an advanced degree, from professional development to pursuing your passion.
Anthony P. Carnevale, Jeff Strohl, Kathryn Peltier Campbell, Artem Gulish, Ban Cheah, Emma Nyhof, and Lillian Fix. Learning and Earning by Degrees: Gains in College Degree Attainment Have Enriched the Nation and Every State, but Racial and Gender Inequality Persists. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2024. https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/attainmentgains/
Rubio, D. M., Primack, B. A., Switzer, G. E., Bryce, C. L., Seltzer, D. L., & Kapoor, W. N. (2011). A Comprehensive Career-Success Model for Physician-Scientists. Academic Medicine, 86, 1571-1576. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0b013e31823592fd
Here's a simple tool to help you decide if an online or in-person advanced degree is a better option for you.
NCSES Survey of Earned Doctorates 2020 https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf22300/technical-notes
https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf24300/data-tables
The future of the Ed.D. degree – and how it will change over time, https://fortune.com/education/articles/the-future-of-the-ed-d-degree-and-how-it-will-change-over-time/
Foster, H.A., S. Chesnut, J. Thomas, and C. Robinson, “ Differentiating the EdD and the PhD in Higher Education: A Survey of Characteristics and Trends,” https://aquila.usm.edu/fac_pubs/21551/
Professional Science Masters https://professionalsciencemasters.org/
Cassuto, L., “The Sad Story of the P.M.A.,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 4, 2015, https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-sad-story-of-the-p-m-a/
https://www.statista.com/topics/2175/business-schools-in-the-united-states/#topicOverview
https://www.aacsb.edu/insights/videos/2017/10/the-future-of-the-mba
https://fortune.com/education/articles/online-mba-versus-traditional-mba/
https://www.aacsb.edu/insights/articles/2022/06/big-mba-programs-are-getting-bigger
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/chb/postbaccalaureate-enrollment
https://nursejournal.org/resources/in-person-vs-online-nursing-programs/
What do Carnegie classifications and college athletics have to do with one another? Have a listen to find out how the race to the top has impacted both in very similar ways over the past 15-20 years.
https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/survey-components/7
https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf24300/data-tables
https://www.ncaa.org/index.aspx
https://news.chapman.edu/2019/01/16/chapman-achieves-milestone-with-r-2-carnegie-classification/
https://www.augusta.edu/mcg/phy/faculty/phys_faculty_sullivan.php
https://www.augusta.edu/gradschool/
https://carterbaldwin.com/news/18462/
https://www.pvamu.edu/blog/pvamu-achieves-prestigious-carnegie-r2-classification/
https://www.nyit.edu/news/features/meet_jared_littman_vice_provost_for_research
https://www.unf.edu/newsroom/2022/02/R2-status-explained.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ten_Academic_Alliance
https://www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pages/Carnegie-Classifications-to-Make-Major-Changes.aspx
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