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

本项目提出了一个研讨会，通过允许兼职学生在工业中工作的博士课程，调查国内工程博士的影响，特别是来自代表性不足的群体。轶事证据表明，兼职学生需要更长的时间来完成他们的论文，有限的研究表明，这是由于学生缺乏支持和充分的计划。该研讨会将在马萨诸塞大学举行，将分为三个部分，包括数据共享、演讲和参与者之间的头脑风暴。参与者包括来自大型兼职项目的管理人员，包括一些著名的hbcu，如霍华德，马里兰州巴尔的摩县，北卡罗来纳农工大学，摩根州立大学和Prairie View农工大学。由于博士生群体中未被充分代表的学生比例明显高于全日制学生，而拥有大量兼职博士人口的机构分布在全国各地，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，收集非全日制博士课程的数据，并设计一个支持非全日制博士生的计划，以供后续评估。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.