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CIRGE – a growing reputation of expertise
Wide dissemination of CIRGE’s findings from the national Social Science PhDs 5- Years Out study of anthropology, history, geography, sociology and political science PhDs career paths survey as well as the hosting of three international workshops on PhD education has resulted in high visibility worldwide as a leading research center on doctoral education, resulting in invitations and requests for our expertise from around the globe.
College of Education and UW participants contribute to success of international workshopstrong
“Forces and Forms of Change in Doctoral Education Worldwide III: the Policy Potential of Innovation and Internationalization in Doctoral Education” - the third and final in a series of NSF funded workshops on doctoral education developed by CIRGE - was held March 23-27 in Kassel, Germany.
Participants at the conference represent both international higher education authorities, funders, and early career researchers from six continents and 21 countries, including several from the University of Washington and from the College of Education.
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Scott Macklin videotaped the entire conference, editing the highlights and posting them on the CIRGE website each evening. He then developed a workshop summary video, which can be viewed at http://depts.washington.edu/cirgeweb/c/global-network/forces-and-forms-global-network/forces-and-forms-iii/.
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George Martinez, Communications Director at the UW Graduate School handled the communication aspect of the conference, arranging for media packages to be sent out which lead to Maresi being interviewed by the German University Newspaper (DUZ), The Independent University Newspaper in Germany . George, Dr. Elizabeth Rudd, CIRGE senor scientist and Maresi co-authored a conference report which will be published in: Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences.
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Professors Bill Zumeta and Angela Ginorio (UW Women Studies) were guest speakers at the international conference.
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Elizabeth Rudd and Emma Flores, doctoral student in higher education, not only actively participated in the week-long meeting, but contributed to the subsequent book which will result from the workshop.
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Gifford Cheung, CIRGE RA, doctoral student from the UW-iSchool, handled the technical aspects, assisting both George and Scott, and helping network members determine how to best communicate with each other after the workshop.
National Science Foundation requests
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In June, NSF asked Maresi to a brown bag luncheon,” Policies of Innovations and Internationalization in Graduate Education,” at which she presented results from the workshop, including the policy recommendations developed by the workshop participants. NSF was enchanted by Scott’s video and commented on this novel approach of immediately broad- casting the conference events and the policy recommendations.
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As a direct result of the brown bag lunch presentation, Maresi has been asked to develop a workshop to assist program officers in developing strategies and an implementation plan for assessment requirements in NSF grants that include international graduate education components.
Other Invitations
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The Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) asked Maresi to present at their annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland in June on “Time-to Degree and the Case for Enhanced PhD Skills Training: Is time-to-degree a program quality measure or an efficiency measure?”
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Maresi was asked to be one of two external peer evaluators for the Humboldt University, Graduate School in Berlin, Germany this May to assess the school and suggest improvements.
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From Berlin, Dr. Nerad flew to Paris, to speak at the plenary session of a workshop by the French office of the European Union on “Mobility of Doctoral Studies in Europe,” presenting the findings of the surveys CIRGE has done on PhD career paths and comparing them with European practices and policies in the field.
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During July, Maresi went to Johannesburg, South Africa as a member of the consensus panel to attend the second meeting for The Academy of Science of South Africa’s (ASSAf) study of the PhD in South Africa. This panel has been commissioned by the South Africa Government and the African Academy to Science to assess the current state of doctoral education in South African and to provide recommendations for the future development of doctoral education in South Africa.
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Elizabeth Rudd was interviewed by the American Psychological Association’s gradPSYCH magazine about CIRGE research findings on whether social science graduate students who complete their degrees more quickly are more likely to get a tenure-track position.
International Visiting Scholar
From December 2009 to May 2010, Dr. Shaoxue Liu, Professor and Vice Dean of the Graduate School of Education (GSE) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, will be a visiting scholar in the College of Education, hosted by CIRGE. Dr. Liu is part of the team at Shanghai Jiao Tong University who established the World University Ranking in which UW placed 16 in 2008. She has been researching Chinese PhDs and would now like to do a comparative study on PhD employment and contributions in China and the U.S.
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