They implored the board members not to adopt the policy, saying it would dilute the quality of science education and make graduates of the district, which is north of Atlanta, the laughingstock of college admission offices.
She said weakening tenure and lengthening school days in a system where class sizes are larger, salaries lower and conditions tougher than in the suburbs would inevitably make graduates of teacher colleges less interested in applying to work in New York.
As a supervisor, he had the gift of making graduates believe in the value both of their topic and of the contribution they were making to it.
In lecture halls around the world, university departments and organizations with names like "Employment Soon!" are hosting career panels, presumably with the goal of making graduate students and postdocs freak out.
While career development of postdoctoral scientists will continue to be important, these results reinforce the recommendation of the National Academies postdoc report that "beginning in the first year of graduate school, [host institutions and mentors should] make graduate students aware of the wide variety of career paths available for PhD recipients" (NAS, 2014, p. 4).
"De-emphasizing the GRE and augmenting admissions procedures with measures of other attributes such as drive, diligence and the willingness to take scientific risks would not only make graduate admissions more predictive of the ability to do well but would also increase diversity in STEM," Miller and Stassun write.
But that's part of what it means to be a scientist, and it's part of what makes graduate school a meaningful experience.
An analysis of career choices made by graduates of 24 MD-PhD programs.
An analysis of career choices made by graduates of 24 M.D.-Ph.D. programs.
But she wants to make sure graduates of Wheaton College, her alma mater, understand that even with graduating with student debt and no job, they are far more advantaged than most of their peers in the world.
