The Invisible University: Postdoctoral Education in the United States
The Invisible University: Postdoctoral Education in the United States
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隐形大学：美国博士后教育
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10.1080/00221546.1971.11776799
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1971
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通讯作者：
Ann M. Heiss
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作者：
Ann M. Heiss
《高等教育杂志》是美国高等教育中发展迅速但未得到充分阐明的一个方面。作为美国博士后教育综合研究项目的负责人，柯蒂斯和他的同事们收集了大量令人印象深刻的数据，这些数据显示了立即或延迟的博士后经历对个人、东道国机构和总体奖学金的影响。该研究由美国国家科学院发起和支持，旨在了解美国博士后教育的规模、活动和主要贡献。在调查结果公布之前，人们对这种高等教育水平知之甚少，只知道它的目的是为继续教育或博士学位以外的额外研究培训提供机会。报告显示了这些研究员是谁，他们是如何被选中的，他们集中在哪里，他们的活动和贡献是什么，在他们的职业生涯中，他们什么时候接受了这种临时任命。为什么这是高等教育的一个重要方面，需要鼓励，尽管有些不那么自由放任的监管。通过问卷调查、访谈和从博士后研究员、教师导师、非导师、研究同事、管理人员和其他知情人士那里收集的其他数据来源，柯蒂斯发现博士后现象的模糊性使得几乎每个州都有必要对其进行资格认证
JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION a rapidly growing but inadequately illuminated facet of American higher education. As director of a comprehensive study of postdoctoral education in the United States, Curtis and his associates assembled an impressive body of data which show the impact of the immediate, and of the delayed, postdoctoral experience on the individual, on host institutions, and on scholarship in general. Initiated and supported by the National Academy of Sciences, the study was designed to learn the dimensions, activities, and major contributions of postdoctoral education in this country. Prior to the publication of its findings, little was known about this level of higher education other than the fact that it was designed to provide opportunity for continuing education or additional research training beyond the Ph. D. The report shows who the fellows are, how they were selected, where they are concentrated, what their activities and contributions have been, when, in their careers, they accept this temporary appointment, and why this is an important aspect of higher learning that needs encouragement, albeit somewhat less laissez-faire regulation. Using questionnaire, interview, and other sources of data gathered from postdoctoral fellows, faculty mentors, nonmentors, research colleagues, administrators, and other informed persons, Curtis found that the ambiguities in the postdoctoral phenomena make it necessary to qualify almost every state-