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STEM Doctoral Students:
How Finance Mechanisms Influence the Quality of Their Education
AGENDA
National Academy of Sciences
2100 C Street, NW, Room 150
Washington, DC
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8:00 – 8:30
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Continental Breakfast
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8:30 – 9:15
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Welcome
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Martin Orland, National Research Council
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Introduction to the Day’s Assignment: An Explication of the Essential Qualities of a Quality Doctoral Education
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Mel George, University of Missouri
Bianca Bernstein, National Science Foundation
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9:15 – 10:30
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How is Doctoral Education Influenced by Current Financing Arrangements – three different perspectives:
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Computer Science – Randal Bryant, Carnegie Mellon University
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Geosciences - Randall Richardson, University of Arizona
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Physics+ – Dennis Hall, Vanderbilt University
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Discussants:
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Connie Cepko, Harvard University
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Joan Lorden, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
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10:30 – 10:45
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Break
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10:45 – 12:00
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Promising Approaches to Student Financing that Promote Desired Goals
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Eric Fromm, Drexel University
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Manual Gomez, University of Puerto Rico
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Discussants:
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Claudia Mitchell-Kernan, National Science Foundation
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Robert Lichter, Merrimack Consultants
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12:00 – 1:00
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Lunch
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1:00 – 2:30
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Alternate Approaches That Ought to be Widely Considered:
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• Starting from scratch with a new design |
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• An experiment with a mechanism never tried before |
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• Revision of a current highly inefficient policy |
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• A modest change that could yield a large effect |
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Robert Cohen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Tim Lant, National Association of Graduate-Professional Students
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Discussants:
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Robert Zimmer, Brown University
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John Brighton, National Science Foundation
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2:30 – 4:00
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What Evidence Would We Accept that a Policy Change was Having a Desired Effect……and What Does this Suggest for Building New Measures, Collecting Data and Conducting Research?
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Two current research initiatives:
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Harriet Zuckerman, Mellon Foundation
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Michael Nettles, Educational Testing Service
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Discussants:
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Ron Ehrenberg, Cornell University
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Samuel Myers, University of Minnesota
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4:00 – 4:30
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Concluding Observations
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Mel George
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