Increases in the time-to-completion of doctoral studies at the University of California prompted Berkeley to create dissertation-stage financial support and workshops that quickened completion rates.
How the University of California at Berkeley's graduate division has used quantitative analysis and qualitative methods to address the issues of time to doctoral degree and student retention is described. The graduate division used this research to develop recommendations and design programmatic outreach activities to improve graduate education.
An institutional perspective on doctoral student attrition is provided, demonstrating how Berkeley's graduate school went about investigating doctoral student attrition in order to increase student retention.
CSHE is delighted to share the data of the three national career path studies hosted by the Center for Innovation and Research in Graduate Education (CIRGE): PhDs – Ten Years Later (which surveyed PhDs in biochemistry, computer science, electrical engineering, English, mathematics, and political science from 64 institutions);...
This book provides an evaluation of changes and reforms in doctoral education since 2000. Recent decades have seen an explosion in doctoral education worldwide, and the increased potential for diverse employment has generated greater interest. Recognizing the diversity of academic cultures and institutional systems worldwide, the book advocates for a core value system to overcome inequalities in access to doctoral education. The chapters focus on the structures and quality assurance models of doctoral education, supervision, and funding from an institutional and comparative...
Senior Researcher and Visiting Scholars Coordinator
Anne J. MacLachlan is a retired senior researcher at CSHE who continues to be devoted to increasing access, persistence, and success in postsecondary education for underrepresented groups (URM) including domestic minorities, women, and those from uneducated/poor families with an emphasis on those in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Her research areas cover the spectrum of postsecondary populations including community college and transfer students, undergraduates in general, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty. Among these, doctoral...
Given the perceived imbalance in resource allocation and the recognized disparities in degree completion rates across academic disciplines in Japan's higher education system, this study explores the perceptions and experiences of graduate students through a comparison between graduate students in Humanities and Social Sciences and those in Sciences and Engineering. Osaka University has been chosen as the case study because it is one of the former empirical and research-intensive universities located in the international city of Osaka, Japan, which is well-known as one of the most DEI-...
