Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education in Geography

本研究调查了三个问题：(1)地理研究生课程如何招募、培训研究生，并为其职业生涯做好准备？(2)地理硕士/硕士和博士的环境如何塑造这些项目中学生的能力和态度？(3)哪些类型的资源对加强地理研究生院系最有帮助？为了解决这些问题，我们正在对不同部门的主席、教师、雇主、管理人员和研究生进行详细的调查和访谈。我们也在收集专业发展资源，供各院系用来培养研究生，特别是那些在今天的研究生课程中相对较少受到关注的学术工作和文化方面，如课程设计、职业规划、职业道德和提案写作。最后，我们正在将这项研究的结果转化为加强部门和研究生教育的实用指南（EDGE指南），这是一个印刷和数字资源的集合，系主任和部门可以使用它来提高其研究生课程的质量。我们的合作伙伴包括高等教育专业和组织发展（POD）网络，几个地理学硕士和博士课程，以及在地理学和专业发展方面具有广泛专业知识的教师。

This study is investigating three questions: (1) How are graduate students being recruited, trained, and prepared for professional careers by geography graduate programs? (2) How do the environments of MA/MS and Ph.D. geography departments shape the abilities and attitudes of students in these programs? (3) What types of resources are most helpful for strengthening graduate departments in geography? To address these questions, we are conducting detailed surveys and interviews with chairpersons, faculty, employers, administrators, and graduate students in a diverse range of departments. We are also collecting professional development resources that departments are using to train graduate students, especially with regard to those aspects of academic work and culture that receive relatively little attention in today's graduate curriculum, such as course design, career planning, professional ethics, and proposal writing. Finally, we are translating the results of this research into a practical Guide for Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education (EDGE Guide), a collection of print and digital resources that chairpersons and departments can use to improve the quality of their graduate programs. Our partners include the Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network in Higher Education, several MA and Ph.D. geography programs, and faculty with extensive expertise in geography and professional development.