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The Ph.D. Completion Project: Phase II Technical Workshop

The Ph.D. Completion Project: Phase II Technical Workshop. Daniel Denecke, Helen Frasier, and Kenneth Redd December 9, 2006 Washington, DC. Pre-Meeting Workshop Goals. Provide project overview and a set of tools and templates for collecting and interpreting completion and attrition data

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The Ph.D. Completion Project: Phase II Technical Workshop

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  1. The Ph.D. Completion Project:Phase II Technical Workshop Daniel Denecke, Helen Frasier, and Kenneth Redd December 9, 2006 Washington, DC

  2. Pre-Meeting Workshop Goals • Provide project overview and a set of tools and templates for collecting and interpreting completion and attrition data • Hear from Phase I Project Research Partners • Provide information about the new Phase II RFP to ensure a pool of highly competitive proposals

  3. Ph.D. Completion Project (Phase I) • Supported by Pfizer & Ford Foundation • 45 Universities Submitted Proposals • 21 “Research Partners” w/ awards up to $100k • Three-Year Grants for: • Data Collection and Submission • “Interventions” Design and Implementation • Assessment of Impact and Best Practice Idea Exchange • 24 “Project Partners” • 1/3 of “Project Partners” are collecting and submitting quantitative data

  4. Project Activities • Data Collection, Submission, and Analysis • Completion Data, Demographic Data, Attrition Data • Exit Surveys • Factor Assessments • Program-level and University-wide Interventions or Treatments • Evaluation/Assessment • Campus and National Leadership

  5. Areas of Strategic Intervention

  6. Completion Management Graduate dean as: • Protector of Student Interests • Champion of Quality Across Programs • Steward of Financial Resources Graduate schools can and should: • Collect Data > Share Data > Determine Appropriate Solutions to Specific Problems > Reward and Monitor Changes

  7. Meeting External Demands and Internal (University) Objectives • Spellings Commission • Student Right-to-Know Act • The NRC Doctoral Assessment • Domestic Recruiting • International Competition

  8. Lessons Learned from the PhD Completion Project • Knowing data and feedback to departments is a powerful “intervention” • Graduate deans and faculty must work together in interpreting data and setting goals • Knowing and sharing data is not enough • Graduate deans and faculty must work together in designing activities and “interventions” • Data have multiple policy implications

  9. Peeling the Onion: National Data and Demographic Differences • Completion • Overall • Broad field • Disciplines • Attrition • Gender • Race/Ethnicity • Citizenship

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