AAU PhD Program and Career Outcome Data Workshop

在过去的25年里，美国博士教育改革的必要性一直是许多国家研究的主题。人们注意到的一个特别挑战是职业道路。 研究生通常不会接触到向博士开放的广泛职业途径这使得学生无法就其教育道路和专业准备做出知情决定。 准确和透明的计划和职业成果数据是必要的，使学生能够确定和指导他们的研究对他们理想的职业目标。这个国家科学基金会奖给美国大学协会（AAU）将支持一个研讨会，该研讨会将汇集来自一些机构的代表，这些机构目前正在努力记录并公开有关博士课程入学，完成和职业成果的数据;学者对博士职业道路进行研究;和负责监督研究生教育的大学管理人员。研讨会的目标是调查现有的景观，以了解博士教育的成果，促进与会者之间的协同作用，并确定下一步的方向。为期一天半的研讨会将支持与会者讨论数据收集中使用的方法，收集的数据是如何打算或不打算使用，以及可以采取哪些努力来加强现有努力之间的沟通，标准化方法，并改善关于博士教育和职业成果的文件和数据的可用性。来自收集和分析博士教育成果数据的一些主要努力的代表，博士授予机构的行政领导人，以及努力拓宽学生职业道路的领导人将被邀请参加。研讨会将包括小组发言和主持讨论。获得可靠、准确和透明的数据是讨论的重要起点，可以导致有效的决策。本次研讨会的直接目标是确定直接步骤，使这些数据标准化，并提供给社区和利益攸关方。最终，期望这将导致工作，将识别和减轻制度，文化和学科的障碍，可能会阻止博士生识别，探索，并准备了广泛的职业pathways.This建议是由教育和人力资源局（EHR）核心研究（ECR）计划和NSF研究培训（NRT）计划共同资助。 ECR计划（NSF 15-509）专注于STEM教育的基础研究，为重要，广泛和持久的关键研究领域提供资金。 该NRT计划（17-585/18-507）旨在鼓励开发和实施新的，潜在的变革性模型或方法，为STEM研究生教育培训，以解决不断变化的劳动力和研究需求。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

The need to reform doctoral education in the United States has been the subject of a number of national studies over the past 25 years. One particular challenge that has been noted focuses on career pathways. Graduate students generally are not exposed to the breadth of career pathways that are open to Ph.D. recipients, thereby hampering students from making informed decisions about their educational paths and professional preparation. Accurate and transparent program and career outcomes data are necessary to enable students to identify and direct their studies toward their desired career goals. This National Science Foundation award to the Association of American Universities (AAU) will support a workshop that will bring together representatives from a number of institutions currently engaged in efforts to document and make publicly available data on doctoral program admission, completion, and career outcome measures; scholars conducting research on doctoral career pathways; and university administrators charged with overseeing graduate education. The goal of the workshop is to survey the existing landscape for understanding doctoral education outcomes, foster synergies among participants, and determine next directions.The one-and-a-half-day workshop will support discussions among participants regarding methodologies used in data collection, how collected data is intended or not intended to be used, and what efforts can be undertaken to increase communication across existing efforts, standardize approaches, and improve documentation and availability of data on doctoral education and career outcomes. Representatives from a number of major efforts to collect and analyze doctoral educational outcomes data, administrative leaders at doctoral-granting institutions, and leaders of efforts on broadening career pathways for students will be invited to participate. The workshop will include panel presentations and facilitated discussions. Access to reliable, accurate, and transparent data is an essential starting point for discussions that can lead to effective decision making. The immediate goal of this workshop is to determine direct steps that can make such data standardized and available to the community and stakeholders. Ultimately, the expectation is that this will lead to work that will identify and mitigate institutional, cultural, and disciplinary barriers that may prevent doctoral students from identifying, exploring, and preparing for a wide range of career pathways.This proposal is co-funded by the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) Core Research (ECR) program and the NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program. The ECR program (NSF 15-509) focuses on fundamental research in STEM education by providing funds in critical research areas that are essential, broad and enduring. The NRT Program (17-585/18-507) is designed to encourage the development and implementation of new, potentially transformative models or approaches for STEM graduate education training that address changing workforce and research needs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.