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General Survival Skills

• Consensus report on graduate education, FASEB
http://opa.faseb.org/pages/Publications/educationreport.htm

• Graduate Education Report, Association of American Universities
The Association of American Universities (AAU) formed the Committee on Graduate Education to evaluate the conduct of graduate education on its member campuses. The Committee examined the institutional perspectives on graduate education, surveyed its institutions about their graduate programs, and developed guidelines on best practices for graduate education policies and programs.
http://www.aau.edu/reports/GradEdRpt.html

• GREAT Group of the Association of American Medical Colleges
The GREAT Group provides a national forum for professional development and the exchange of information and ideas related to biomedical graduate education and training.
http://www.aamc.org/members/great/start.htm

• National Science Board, NSF
Views on the role of the Federal government in graduate and postdoctoral education.
http://www.nsf.gov/nsb/documents/1997/nsb97235/nsb97235.htm

• Preparing Future Faculty
Preparing Future Faculty is a national network of academic leaders reshaping graduate education to include preparation for the full range of faculty roles subsumed by the terms teaching, research, and service.
http://www.preparing-faculty.org

• Reshaping the Graduate Education of Scientists and Engineers
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/grad

• Statistical Reports on U. S. Science and Engineering
http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/stats.htm

• Survival Skills Web page, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.survival.pitt.edu/events/index.asp

• Trends in the Early Careers of Life Scientists
This report extends the analyses of the previous reports by examining the changes that have occurred over the last 30 years in graduate and postgraduate training of life scientists and the nature of their employment on completion of training.
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/trends

• James Austin (2003): Interdisciplinarity and Tenure
http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2003/01/08/8


update: 12/22/06