Workshop for Evaluating Part-Time Doctoral Study for Growing the Underrepresented Student Population

该项目提出了一个研讨会，以调查国内工程博士学位的影响，特别是来自代表性不足的群体，通过博士学位课程，允许兼职学生在行业工作。传闻证据表明，非全日制学生完成论文的时间要长得多，有限的研究表明，这是由于学生缺乏支持和充分的规划。 研讨会将在马萨诸塞州大学举行，将分为三个部分，其中包括数据共享，演示和参与者之间的头脑风暴。参与者包括来自大型兼职计划的管理员，包括几个著名的HBCU，如霍华德，马里兰州的巴尔的摩县，北卡罗来纳州AT，摩根州和Prairie View AM。由于与全日制人口相比，博士生人口中代表性不足的学生比例明显较高，并且拥有大量兼职博士生的机构遍布全国各地，因此该项目具有深远影响的潜力。最初的研讨会旨在将利益相关者聚集在一起，收集兼职博士课程的数据，并为兼职博士生设计一个支持计划，以供随后的评估。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为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来支持。

This project proposes a workshop to investigate the impact of domestic engineering doctorates, especially from underrepresented groups, through PhD program that allow part-time students working in industry. Anecdotal evidence suggests that part-time students take significantly longer to complete their dissertations and limited research suggests that this is due to a lack of support and adequate planning by the students. The workshop is to be held at the University of Massachusetts and will be divided into three parts, which will include data sharing, presentations, and brainstorming among the participants. Participants include administrators from Programs with large part-time programs including several prominent HBCUs such as Howard, Maryland at Baltimore County, North Carolina A&T, Morgan State, and Prairie View A&M. As doctoral student populations have significantly higher proportions of underrepresented students when compared to full-time populations, and institutions with large part-time doctoral populations are located across the country, this project has the potential for far-reaching impact. The initial workshop seeks to bring stakeholders together, collect data on part-time doctoral programs, and design a program of support for part-time doctoral students for subsequent evaluation.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.