{"id":367,"date":"2017-08-25T08:30:47","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T12:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/?p=367"},"modified":"2017-08-20T19:13:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T23:13:11","slug":"revitalizing-graduate-stem-education-for-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2017\/08\/25\/revitalizing-graduate-stem-education-for-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Revitalizing Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Academy of Sciences has a committee that is leading a study of graduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The goals of <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/pga\/bhew\/graded\/index.htm\">the study<\/a> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Identifying policies, programs and practices that could better meet the diverse education and career needs of graduate students,<\/li>\n<li>Identifying strategies to improve the alignment of graduate education courses, curricula, labs and fellowship\/traineeship experiences for students with the needs of prospective employers<\/li>\n<li>Identifying policies and effective practices that provide students and faculty with information about career paths for graduates holding master&#8217;s and Ph.D. degrees and provide ongoing and high quality counseling and mentoring for graduate students.<\/li>\n<li>Creating a set of national goals for graduate STEM education that can be used by research universities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The committee released <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.nationalacademies.org\/cs\/groups\/pgasite\/documents\/webpage\/pga_180970.pdf\">a discussion document<\/a> describing a set of competencies that might form core educational elements for both master&#8217;s and PhD programs in STEM fields. It seeks community input on the discussion document. The deadline for comment is 22 September 2017 and may be submitted either by a web form at <a href=\"http:\/\/nas.gradedinput.sgizmo.com\/s3\/\">http:\/\/nas.gradedinput.sgizmo.com\/s3\/<\/a> or via e-mail to <a href=\"mailto:STEMGradEd@nas.edu\">STEMGradEd@nas.edu<\/a>. If you are interested in STEM graduate education, I encourage you to read the document and submit comments.<\/p>\n<p>Disclaimer: I was part of the Council of Graduate Schools Committee that developed the <a href=\"http:\/\/cgsnet.org\/january-2017-gradedge\"><em>Alignment Framework for the Master\u2019s Degree<\/em> <\/a>that the document uses to describe core educational elements for STEM master&#8217;s degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Academy of Sciences has a committee that is leading a study of graduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The goals of the study include: Identifying&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/blog\/2017\/08\/25\/revitalizing-graduate-stem-education-for-the-21st-century\/\">Read more &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darwin.eeb.uconn.edu\/uncommon-ground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}