Students in graduate programs on the continent lack role models and mentors, strong academic and research networks, opportunities to participate in international conferences, and exposure to strong research environments.
Of those, a large number are in graduate programs abroad.
And the problem has been especially acute in graduate programs in education.
They also worry that the number of women is dropping in graduate programs and in industry.
Enrollment in graduate programs has risen by 33percentt since 2000, to 2.8 million students.
Given the broad variety of backgrounds of the students in graduate programs, teaching complex reaction engineering applications is challenging.
Second, ethnic gaps on the GRE persist, especially in quantitative reasoning, although representation of historically disadvantaged ethnic groups in graduate programs has increased.
I believe that the representation of women in graduate programs in economics is rising and many more women are being appointed to faculty positions at top institutions.
In addition, there are currently 100 former "Prep for Prep" students in graduate programs, including law school and medical school, and 5 are Fulbright scholars.
UConn has more than 26,000 students, with about 7,000 of them in graduate programs including law, dentistry, medicine and social work.
