Bibliography
Exemplary Programs and Practices
Online Newsletter

Davis, Pamela, Perry, James and Delmont, Timothy J. (1998). "Evolution of Team-Based Graduate Education Through a Survey of Prospective Employers." Journal on Excellence in College Teaching. 9 (1), 105-119.

Fanning, Ellen and Friedman, Katherine. " Creative Models for Integrating Graduate and Undergraduate Education in the Sciences, Math, and Engineering," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2006): http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/conference2006/proceedings.htm

Gonzales, Cristina. (2001). "Undergraduate Research, Graduate Mentoring, and the University's Mission." Science. (v.293). http://www.sciencemag.org.

Leatherman, Courtney. (1999). "A University Decides That Its Ph.D.'s Should Be Able to Talk to Average Joes." The Chronicle of Higher Education. A18.

Lynn, David and Comeau, Dawn. "Strategies for Effecting Rapid Translation of Ongoing Research in the Curriculum," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2004): http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/Conference_04/proceedings.htm

"Professional Master's Degrees Promise Quicker Entry into Industry Jobs." Physics Today. June 1999. 55.

Pukkila, Patricia and Arnold, Martha. "Bringing Instructional Innovations that Work in One Discipline to Other Disciplines," Reinvention Center Conference (Nov. 2004): http://www.sunysb.edu/Reinventioncenter/Conference_04/proceedings.htm

National Initiatives:

Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/CID/

Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT): An NSF-funded program that focuses on developing a generation of scientists and engineers to become experts at the integrative synthesis and analysis of biological interfaces. http://www.igert.rutgers.edu/researchsamples.php

National Association of Graduate & Professional Students
The NAGPS received a grant from the Alfred Sloan Foundation to conduct a survey of doctoral students on their graduate school experiences. Results are available online.
http://www.nagps.org

Preparing Future Faculty
http://www.preparing-faculty.org

Re-envisioning the Ph.D.
Reforms in graduate education are being studied by Re-envisioning the Ph.D., a project funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and headquartered at the University of Washington:
http://www.grad.washington.edu/envision/

The Responsive PhD, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
http://www.woodrow.org/responsivephd/

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
http://www.ndltd.org/

Undergraduate Research ACS-CPT Supplement, American Chemical Society
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/resources/?id=ebf9359c432811d6fb3c4fd8fe800100

Innovative Programs on Specific Campuses:

Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE), New York University
http://www.nyu.edu/cte/

Community Research & Learning Network (CoRAL), Georgetown University
http://www.coralnetwork.org/

Council of Academic Partners, University of California, Berkeley
A collaboration of varied campus units that encourage, support, and enhance excellence in teaching.
http://education.berkeley.edu/cap/

Discovery Program, Binghamton University
http://www.binghamton.edu/discover/

"Origins of ORDER” (On Recent Discoveries by Emory Researchers): A Freshman Seminar at Emory University in which students learn about cutting edge scientific research going on in laboratories at the university: http://www.cse.emory.edu/sciencenet/coll_curr/order/index.html;
http://www.news.emory.edu/Releases/lynn1069363205.html; http://www.news.emory.edu/Releases/davidlynn1090849234.html

The Graduate Research Consultants (GRC) program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Graduate students guide undergraduates within the lecture course as they undertake an individual or small group research project. http://www.unc.edu/depts/our/GRCprogram.html

The History of Consciousness Program, University of California, Santa Cruz: An interdisciplinary graduate program centered in the humanities with links to the social sciences, natural sciences and the arts.
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/histcon/HisCon.html

Intellectual Entrepreneurship Program, The University of Texas, Austin
https://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/

Keck Postdoctoral Research/Training Fellowships in Sciences/Mathematics, Bryn Mawr College
The program provides support for young scientists emerging from graduate programs with a traditional focus on research who want as well to make a strong commitment to teaching and to the mutually reinforcing benefits of teaching and research.
http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/local/keck/

Learning and Research Center for the Digital Age (LRCDA), North Carolina State University
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/administration/lrcda/

LiTgloss, University at Buffalo
A collection of texts of literary or cultural interest, written in languages other than English, and expertly annotated so as to facilitate comprehension by English-speaking readers. The collection consists of over a hundred texts in almost two dozen languages. Although French, Spanish and German are the best represented, LiTgloss aims to include substantial numbers of texts from as many languages as possible.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/litgloss/

Master's Program in Science Entrepreneurship, Case Western Reserve University
http://sep.cwru.edu

Mellon Faculty Institute on Undergraduate Research, University of California, Berkeley
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MellonInstitute/

Research Internships in Science and Engineering (RISE), University of Maryland, College Park
http://www.eng.umd.edu/wie/riseII.html

Research Site for Educators in Chemistry (RSEC), University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
An NSF-funded initiative designed to foster new and meaingful scientific interactions between a large, Ph.D. - granting chemistry department and the departments of 20-25 primarily undergraduate institutions.
http://www.chem.umn.edu/rsec/

Stanford Research Communications: I-RITE (Integrating Research Into the Teaching Environment)
In partnership with partnership with the National Communication Association and the Stanford Program in Writing and Rhetoric, I-RITE provides advanced graduate students and other researchers with short training in effectively communicating their ideas to a broader audience.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/i-rite/index.html

Summer Doctoral Fellows Program
Washington State University offers a summer doctoral fellows program for graduate students from other American universities. Designed primarily for U.S. citizens from diverse backgrounds who are nearing completion of their doctoral degrees and preparing for careers in higher education, the program includes seminars on the changing roles and expectations of faculty and the changing nature of higher education and the professoriate.
http://www.gradsch.wsu.edu/summerfellow.htm

The Colleges at LaRue Living & Learning Communities, University of California, Davis
Graduate and undergraduate students reside together and participate in a variety of activities such as films series and foreign language tables designed to enhance their educational experience.
http://thecolleges.ucdavis.edu/index.html

The Lewis and Clark Summer Undergraduate Research Program, University of South Dakota
http://usd.edu/ugrc/lewisclark/lewisclark.html

University of Washington Information Literacy Learning (uwill), University of Washington
Provides support for teaching information competencies in course contexts. It offers online instructional templates addressing a range of concepts related to information-seeking, as well as other strategies, to deliver instruction and generate assignments and course activities that help students develop mastery of information-seeking strategies.
http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/index.html

Tomorrow's Professor Listserv: "Desk-top faculty development, one hundred times a year." An electronic newsletter from the Stanford University Learning Laboratory,
http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/index.shtml
Anyone can SUBSCRIBE to Tomorrow's-Professor Listserv by sending the message [subscribe tomorrows-professor] to Majordomo@lists.stanford.edu

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