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19 Departments Selected as Partners in Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate
Stanford, CA, September 2003—The Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate (CID), a multi-year research and action project aimed at improving doctoral education at American universities, announces the selection of 19 Partner Departments in history and neuroscience.
Partner Departments will analyze all aspects of their doctoral programs and link specific activities to desired outcomes. Departments will begin this analysis by clarifying their goals for doctoral education in their respective disciplines, and will commit to creating "design experiments" in doctoral education to better meet their identified goals.
"We embarked on this project because we felt that this is a propitious time to study new opportunities and responsibilities resulting from evolution of the disciplines as well as general changes in education and society," said Carnegie Senior Scholar George E. Walker, who heads the five-year study.
Carnegie Senior Scholar Chris Golde explained that the project goals were to support and study experiments in doctoral education with leading graduate programs, to document and analyze the character of those initiatives and, working with these innovative departments, to help the disciplinary community create models and evidence of success to inform others in the field. "We're working with departments which are committed to being stewards of the discipline," Golde said. "We don't just mean a preservation of the heart and essence of the field, although that's important, but we chose those departments who have a critical eye toward the future, who are willing to take risks and move the discipline forward."
Carnegie President Lee S. Shulman said the doctoral degree is critical to the continued improvement of all American education, from the elementary school to the graduate school. "If educators hope to change the character of undergraduate education, the Ph.D. is critical; doctoral programs prepare and socialize the next generation of undergraduate teachers. If we wish to influence the course of elementary and secondary schools, the Ph.D. is critical, for those who hold the doctorate also educate those who teach our nation's schoolchildren."
The following departments were selected as CID Partners:
* Arizona State University: Department of History
* Boston University: Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
* Duke University: Department of History
* Duke University: Psychological and Brain Sciences
* Georgetown University: Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
* Michigan State University: Neuroscience Program
* Texas A&M University: Department of History
* The Ohio State University: Department of History
* The Ohio State University: Neuroscience Graduate Studies Program
* University of Connecticut: Department of History
* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Department of History
* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Neuroscience
* University of Kansas: Department of History
* University of Minnesota: Department of History
* University of Minnesota: Graduate Program in Neuroscience
* University of Pittsburgh: Department of History
* University of Pittsburgh: Center for Neuroscience
* University of Texas at Austin: Department of History
* University of Wisconsin-Madison: Neuroscience Training Program
The CID has also selected 12 Allied Departments who will help form a network in each discipline to provide further information collection and dissemination about the study. The Carnegie Foundation announced Partner Departments in chemistry, education, English, and mathematics earlier this year. These departments have already begun deliberations, and will be developing design experiments this fall. A list of Partner and Allied Departments by discipline is attached.
Further information about the study and all of the participants may be found on the Carnegie Web site at www.carnegiefoundation.org. Funding for the project is provided by the Atlantic Philanthropies and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1905 and chartered in 1906 by an act of Congress, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching is an independent policy and research center with a primary mission "to do and perform all things necessary to encourage, uphold, and dignify the profession of the teacher and the cause of higher education." The improvement of teaching and learning is central to all of the work of the Foundation. The Foundation is located in Stanford, Calif.
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