Please join us in welcoming CGS' new institutional members:

2021 New Members

Associate:

• University of Mississippi Medical Center (Mississippi)
• Van Andel Institute Graduate School (Michigan)

International:

• Korea University (South Korea)

Regular:

• Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania)

• Fitchburg State University (Massachusetts)

• Jackson State University (Mississippi)

• John Jay College of Criminal Justice (New York)

• The University of New Orleans (Louisiana)

• University of Alaska Fairbanks (Alaska)

• University of North Alabama (Alabama)

• Wentworth Institute of Technology (Massachusetts)

The Role and Status of the Master's Degree in STEM

Tuesday, May 18, 2010
National Science Foundation
Arlington, Virginia
Room 375

WORKSHOP AGENDA

The CGS/NSF Workshop, "The Role and Status of the Master's Degree in STEM," convened on May 18, 2010 at the National Science Foundation and included approximately 88 attendees who broadly represented leaders in graduate education, and representatives of funding institutions, federal agencies, and disciplinary societies. The goals of the workshop were to:

• Offer an overview of the current role and status of the master's degree in STEM
• Encourage interdisciplinary dialogue as it concerned master's completion and attrition
• Provide updates regarding the CGS Professional Science Master's (PSM) Initiative and NSF Science Master's Program
• Gain information about the career outcomes for STEM master's degree recipients.

The workshop commenced with introductory remarks from CGS President, Debra Stewart, and the NSF Acting Assistant Director of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Joan Ferrini-Mundy. The keynote address entitled, "The Demand for STEM and Graduate Education through 2018," was delivered by noted economist, Tony Carnevale, who directs the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University. Each of the four workshop panels included experts from various sectors of graduate education and the STEM workforce.

Some of the key findings and recommendations for future inquiry will be summarized in a final draft of the CGS White Paper entitled, "Completion and Attrition in Master's Programs in STEM."

Workshop Agenda and Presentations

2009 Summer Workshop Program

Selected PowerPoint presentations from the 2009 NDI and Summer Workshop are below. Presentations are offered as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. File size is indicated after the name of each presenter.

New Deans Institute Presentations

Session II: Governance and Organization
Jeffery Gibeling (166 KB)
Larry Lyon (1.35 MB)
Susan Stites-Doe (656 KB)

Session IVA: Political Engagement
Karen DePauw (761 KB)
Maureen Grasso (46 KB)

Session IVB: Graduate Admissions and Financing: Overview for Associate/Assistant Deans
Nancy Stamp (173 KB)

Session V: Program Quality Assessment
Robert Augustine (347 KB)
Janet Weiss (181 KB)
William Wiener (896 KB)

Summer Workshop Presentations

Plenary I: Budgeting for Excellence in Challenging Financial Times
Andrew Comrie (1.20 MB)
Dennis Grady (353 KB)
Fred Hall (33 KB)
Pamela Stacks (192 KB)

Dean Dialogue 2: Ethics Education and the Responsible Conduct of Research: What Works?
Jean Feldman (1.02 MB) 
Michael Mumford (154 KB)
Lisa Tedesco (226 KB)
T.H. Lee Williams (339 KB)

Breakfast with UMI Dissertations Publishing
David Mendez (1.03 MB)

Plenary II: The Role of Technology in Graduate Education
Diana Oblinger (3.34 MB)

Dean Dialogue 3: Using NRC Research Doctorate Assessment Data to Improve Programs
Charlotte Kuh (71 KB)
Patrick Osmer (30 KB)

GRE/TOEFL Breakfast Meeting
David Payne (376 KB)
Kathy Pruner (197 KB)
Kathy Pruner (331 KB)
Kathy Pruner (75 KB)

Plenary III: The Future of the Master's Degree: Research, Professional and Other
Martin Kreiswirth (1.27 MB)   
Timothy Mack (1.16 MB)
Douglas Peers (384 KB)

Technical Workshop: PhD Completion Project
Sheila Kirby (149 KB)
Nancy Marcus (418 KB)
Janet Rutledge (1.05 MB)

Technical Workshop: Many Voices of the Graduate Dean
Pamela Benoit (2.17 MB)

Opportunities in Private Fundraising: Generating Revenue in Good Times and Bad
Barbara Ball-McMClure (886 KB)
Nancy Busch (999 KB)
Eva Pell (1.42 MB)

2009 CGS Annual Meeting Program

Selected PowerPoint presentations from the 2009 CGS 49th Annual Meeting are below. Presentations are in chronological order by each category. Presentations are offered as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. File size is indicated after the name of each presenter.

Pre-Meeting Workshop Presentations

Building Web Resources
Karen DePauw (2.09 MB)

Legal Issues
David Birnbaum (55 KB)

Fundraising
Debra Hess Norris (7.41 MB)
William Wiener and Amy Blumenthal (1.84 MB)

Assessment and Review of Graduate Programs - Master's
Robert Augustine (1.37 MB)
Timothy Mack (1.0 MB)

Dual and Joint Degrees
Andrew Comrie (413 KB)
Maxwell King (58 KB)

Designing and Assessing Career and Professional Development Programs for Master's and Doctoral Students: A Case Study
Judith Stoddart and Henry Campa (3.88 MB)

Strategies for Effective Diversity Programs in Graduate Schools
Maria Allison (52 KB)
Daryl Chubin (507 KB)

Assessment and Review of Graduate Programs-Doctoral
Patrick Osmer (70 KB)
Gita Ramaswamy (213 KB)

Institutional Strategies for Addressing Three-Year Degrees - Bologna and Beyond
Timothy Barbari (181 KB)
Daniel Bennett (218 KB)

Making the Case for Graduate Education at the State and Institutional Level
Charles Caramello (5.73 MB)
Jeffrey Engler and David Francko (714 KB)
George Justice (327 KB)

Professional Science Master's: How to Catalyze Success
Eleanor Babco (136 KB)
Patricia Bishop (1.01 MB)
Sally Francis (192 KB)
David King (579 KB)
Carol Lynch (86 KB)

Plenary Sessions Presentations

University Presidents Speak to Graduate Education: Protecting and Developing a National Resource
Linda Katehi (41 KB)

From 'Brain Drain' to 'Brain Circulation': Rethinking the Global Knowledge
AnnaLee Saxenian (291 KB)
Paul K.H. Tam (112 KB)

Report from the Commission on the Future of Graduate Education
John Seely Brown (2.16 MB)

Addressing National Priorities through Interdisciplinary Programs: Opportunities for Graduate School Leadership
Philip Cohen (37 KB)
Brian Mitchell (2 MB)
Ernst Rank (1.02 MB)
John Stevenson (19 KB)

Concurrent Sessions Presentations

Broadening Participation in Graduate Education
Maureen Grasso (56 KB)
James Wimbush (36 KB)

Collective Bargaining for Post Docs and Graduate Assistants: Latest Developments
Douglas Peers (100 KB)

Organizations of Graduate Deans and Graduate Studies Around the World
Helene Marsh (36 KB)
Kyung-Chan Min (1.64 MB)

Strategic Planning in Response to Growth Trends to Meet Projected Demand for Master's Degrees
Sue Joseph (959 KB)
Yvonne Murnane (772 KB)

Institutionalizing Research Ethics and Scholarly Integrity: Model Programs
Henry Pinkham (418 KB)
Richard Podemski and Carla Thompson (543 KB)
Jo Rae Wright (416 KB)

The Graduate Dean's Role in Student Recruitment and Retention: McNair Scholars' Perspectives
Cesar Rodriguez (604 KB)
Cameron Van Patterson (724 KB)

Work-Family Policies: Data and Institutional Responses
Mary Ann Mason (346 KB)

Innovations in Delivering Master's Degree Programs: Response to Changing Constituencies
Peter Diffley (69 KB)
Thomas Scott (55 KB)

Positioning for Recovery in Tough Budget Times
Steven Matson (157 KB)

PhD Completion Project: Promising Interventions
Sheila Bonde (883 KB)
Neville Pinto (962 KB)

Doctorate Recipients and Doctoral Outcomes: US and UK Perspectives
Lynda Carlson (400 KB)
Janet Metcalfe (1.68 MB)

Preparing for Accreditation at Master's Focused Institutions: Assuring Efficiency and Value
Karen Carey (25 KB)
Ramona Mellott (6.42 MB)
John Stevenson (737 KB)

Beyond the NRC Research Doc Study
Bruce Jacobs (41 KB)

Three Approaches to Community Engagement
Samuel Attoh (287 KB)
Lawrence Duffy (2.55 MB)
Edelma Huntley (907 KB)

Matching Program Mission to Student Goals in Master's Education
Janice Deakin (835 KB)
Pamela Stacks (38 KB)

To Graduate Deanship and Beyond: Career Paths
Timothy Mack (319 KB)

Other Presentations

Presentation from Educational Testing Service Breakfast: GRE/TOEFL Update
David Payne (674 KB)
Eileen Tyson (198 KB)

Presentation of the Award Winner of the CGS/Proquest UMI Dissertation Award in the Humanities and Fine Arts
Kristel Smentek (873 KB)

Presentation from LaPidus Luncheon
Linda Darling-Hammond (228 KB)

2010 Summer Workshop Program

Selected PowerPoint presentations from the 2010 NDI and Summer Workshop are below. Presentations are offered as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. File size is indicated after the name of each presenter.

New Deans Institute Presentations

Session II: Governance and Organization
Jeffery Gibeling (149 KB)
Lisa Tedesco (216 KB)

Session IVA: Political Engagement
Karen DePauw (83 KB)
Steven Matson (61 KB)
Patricia McAllister (188 KB)
James Wimbush (35 KB)

Session IVB: Graduate Admissions and Financing
Margrit von Braun (922 KB)

Session V: Program Quality Assessment
Robert Augustine (1.55 MB)
Janet Weiss (1.06 MB)
William Wiener (683 KB)

Summer Workshop Presentations

Plenary I: Enchancing Pathways To and Through Graduate School
Jo Rae Wright (1.33 MB)
Douglas Peers (275 KB)

Plenary II: Forecasting the Future for Funding Graduate Education
Ronald G. Ehrenberg (209 KB)

Dean Dialogue: Making the NRC Research Doc Study Work for Your Graduate School
Charlotte Kuh (148 KB)

ProQuest UMI Dissertations Publishing Breakfast Meeting
Marlene Coles (3.02 MB)

GRE/TOEFL Breakfast Meeting
David Payne (864 KB)

PhD Completion Project: Promising Practices to Promote Student Success
Maureen Grasso (99 KB)
Karen Klomparens (1.49 MB)
Steven Matson (71 KB)
Patrick Osmer (84 KB)

Institutional Approaches to Research and Scholarly Integrity
Jan Allen (392 KB)
Karen Klomparens (451 KB)

2010 CGS Annual Meeting Program

Pre-Meeting Workshop Presentations

Assessment and Review of Graduate Programs - Master's
Robert Augustine (780 KB)
Allan Headley (386 KB)
Nancy Stamp (153 KB)

Fundraising and the Use of Advisory Boards
Katie Busch (347 KB)
Steven Matson (136 KB)

Technology Tools for Graduate Education
Andrew Comrie, Karen DePauw and Jo Rae Wright (3.50 MB)

Assessment and Review of Graduate Programs - Doctoral
Charles Caramello (1.09 MB)
James Wimbush (57 KB)

Techniques and Strategies for Ensuring Quality in International Collaborations
Jacqueline Huntoon (149 KB)

Copyright in the Digital Age: Impacts on Universities, Faculty and Students
Kevin Norris (4.62 MB)

Legal Issues
Anne Bowden (50 KB)
Ada Meloy (182 KB)

Strategies for Effective Diversity Programs in Graduate Schools
Daryl Chubin (207 KB)
Janet Rutledge (103 KB)
Sweeney Windchief (486 KB)

Designing Effective Career Programs for Graduate Students and Postdocs: A Campus-Wide Approach to Professional Development
Henry Campa and Judith Stoddart (2.82 MB)

Plenary Sessions Presentations

Quality and Accountability in Graduate Education
Maxwell King (52 KB)

The Path Forward and Promising State Strategies
Robert Augustine (125 KB)
Philip Cohen (177 KB)
Carol Shanklin (33 KB)

Concurrent Sessions Presentations

Programs and New Directions for Scholarly Integrity and RCR
Andrew Comrie (1.30 MB)
Nancy Marcus (65 KB)
Mark Risjord (696 KB)

National Organizations of Graduate Deans: Exploring Opportunities for Global Dialogue
Rose Alinda Alias (1.40 MB)
F. Douglas Boudinot (73 KB)
Wang Enge (1.69 MB)

The Role and Status of the Master's Degree in STEM
Brenda Brouwer (1.21 MB)
Moheb Ghali (106 KB)
MJT Smith (214 KB)

Tracking Career Outcomes for Graduate Degree Recipients
Patricia Calarco (1,012 KB)
Lynne Pepall (754 KB)

Utilizing the Data from the Recently Released Research Doc Study
Jeffery Gibeling (395 KB)
William Russel (263 KB)

Accelerated Bachelor's /Master's Degrees
Charles Amlaner (339 KB)
Duane Larick (209 KB)

Financing Graduate Education at Master's Focused Institutions
James Brennan (61 KB)
Peter Diffley (131 KB)

Counting on the Humanities: Humanities Indicators' Response to Changing Constituencies
Carolyn Fuqua (557 KB)
Gregory Sterling (3.09 MB)

Measuring Quality around the World: Plenary Discussion Continued
Westley Forsythe (983 KB)

Evolving Modalities for Doctoral Education
Orlando Taylor (83 KB)

Master's Completion, Retention and Time to Degree
Nathan Bell (130 KB)
Kenneth Tokuno (59 KB)

Graduate Student Quality of Life
Tim Davidson (228 KB)

Expanding Master's Programs in Challenging Budget Times
Lawrence Martin, Charles Taber, Axel Drees, and Mary Remmler (523 KB)

New Directions in Preparing Future Faculty (PFF): Assessing Student Learning
John Keller (63 KB)
Barbara Knuth (187 KB)

Transforming Community Engagement into Scholarship
Kathleen Long (385 KB)

Diverse Perspectives on Achieving Student Success
Larry Griffith (822 KB)

Sponsored Breakfast Presentations

Presentation from Pearson Breakfast
Mark Anderson (63 KB)

Educational Testing Service Breakfast: Update from the GRE and TOEFL Programs
David Payne and Eileen Tyson (2.24 MB)

2011 Summer Workshop Program

Selected PowerPoint presentations from the 2011 New Deans Institute and Summer Workshop are below. Presentations are offered as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. File size is indicated after the name of each presenter.

New Deans Institute Presentations

Session II: Governance and Organization
Jeffery Gibeling (43 KB)
Orlando Taylor (52 KB)
Jo Rae Wright (703 KB)

Session IVA: Political Engagement
Robert Augustine (240 KB)
Patricia McAllister (184 KB)
Lisa Tedesco (166 KB)
James Wimbush (33 KB)

Session IVB: Graduate Admissions and Financing
George Justice (922 KB)
Carol Shanklin (42 KB)

Session IVB: Program Quality Assessment
Patrick Osmer (345 KB)

Summer Workshop Presentations

ProQuest UMI Dissertations Publishing Breakfast Meeting
Marlene Coles and Austin McLean (922 KB)

Best Practices in Developing and Maintaining Decision Making Data at the Graduate Level
Gerald Baldasty (1.40 MB)
Patricia Bishop (1.35 MB)

Special Session: NSF Programs in Graduate Education
Doris Carver (173 KB)
William Eckberg and Jessie DeAro (655 KB)
Gisele Muller-Parker (541 KB)
James Wimbush (32 KB) 

GRE/TOEFL Breakfast Meeting
Eileen Tyson (922 KB)

Promoting a Diverse and Inclusive Student Population: How to Write an Award-Winning Grant
David Francko (922 KB)
Jeffery Gibeling (236 KB)
Judith Stoddart (452 KB)

New Resources in the PSI Toolbox
Daniel Denecke (675 KB)
Loc Nguyen-Khoa (please find link to video presentation at http://ori.hhs.gov/TheLab)
Neville Pinto (1.15 MB)
Jo Rae Wright (803 KB)

Graduate Enrollment and Degrees by Fine Field: 2000 to 2010 includes data on first-time and total graduate enrollment by field of study (chemistry, history, philosophy, etc.), gender, citizenship, and race/ethnicity, and also includes, for the first time, data on graduate degrees awarded by field of study, degree level (master's vs. doctoral), and gender.

Data for 2010 are presented, along with one-, five-, and ten-year trends.

Also available is an earlier report, First-Time and Total Graduate Enrollment by Fine Field, 1999 to 2009.

2011 CGS Annual Meeting Program

Selected PowerPoint presentations from the 2011 CGS 51st Annual Meeting are below. Presentations are in chronological order by each category. Presentations are offered as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. The file size is indicated after the name of each presenter.

Pre-Meeting Workshop Presentations

Assessment and Review of Graduate Programs - Master's
Allan Headley (562 KB)
Nancy Stamp (358 KB)
William Wiener (891 KB)

Technology and Graduate Education
Andrew Comrie and Karen DePauw (2.04 MB)

Mentoring through the Back Door: Creating Campus Buy-in for Graduate Student Career and Professional Development
Henry Campa and Judith Stoddart (1.34 MB)

Strategies for Promoting Excellence and Success in an Inclusive Graduate Community
David Francko (432 KB)
Karen Jackson-Weaver (154 KB)
Karen Weddle-West (504 KB)

Measuring and Monitoring Student Progress
Nancy Marcus (1.02 MB)
Janet Weiss (114 KB)

Enhancing and Tracking Graduate Student Employment
Janet Metcalfe (1.55 MB)

Quality and Economic Foundations for Successful Online Graduate Programs
Charles McClintock (195 KB)
David Wittrock (375 KB)

Graduate Fundraising in an Increasingly Competitive Environment
Steven Matson (639 KB)
Lisa Tedesco (618 KB)

Building and Gaining Recognition for PSM Programs
Sally Francis (208 KB)
Carol Lynch (294 KB)
John Venables (547 KB)
William Wiener (255 KB)

Effective Use of National and Regional Survey Data in Evaluating Graduate Program Performance
Jeffery Gibeling (794 KB)
David Holger (263 KB)
Lynne Pepall (1,019 KB)

Plenary Sessions Presentations

Public Perceptions for Charting the Future of Higher Education
Paul Taylor (259 KB)

Diversity, Leadership, and Innovation
Scott Page (3.57 MB)

Diversity, Inequality and the Pathways to Leadership: Graduate Education for the 21st Century
Marta Tienda (5.89 MB)

Report from the Commission on Pathways through Graduate School and into Careers
Patrick Osmer (407 KB)

Concurrent Sessions Presentations

Recruitment and Retention of Diverse Students at Master's Focused Institutions
Cynthia Brown (2.41 MB)
Jennifer Keane-Dawes (718 KB)

Making the Case for Graduate Education
Robert Augustine (899 KB)
F. Douglas Boudinot (720 KB)
Maureen Grasso (1.22 MB)

Structuring and Managing Interdisciplinary Degrees
Paul DeMarco (952 KB)
Noreen Golfman (691 KB)
Barbara Knuth (581 KB)

Graduate Professional Programs: Health Sciences, Education and Business
Dennis Grady (386 KB)

Pipelines to Graduate Education
John Keller (212 KB)
Miriam Pabon (326 KB)

Completion and Attrition in STEM Master's Programs
Samuel Attoh (633 KB)
Nathan Bell (116 KB)
Karen Butler-Purry (250 KB)
MJT Smith (251 KB)
Jerry Weinberg (146 KB)

Humanities for What? A Global Perspective
Graham Carr (128 KB)

Effective Strategies for Graduate Dean Leadership
Robert Augustine (257 KB)
James Wimbush (116 KB)

Mentoring to Ensure Inclusivenes
Ralph Ferguson (588 KB)
Janet Rutledge (699 KB)

NSF and NIH Programs in Support of Graduate Education: Update and Future Directions
Rodney Ulane (190 KB)

Academic and Research Integrity in Master's Educaiton
Edelma Huntley and Gerald Pogatshnick (687 KB)

Graduate Student Outcomes: An International Roundtable
Paul Tam (336 KB)

Dealing with Students in Crisis
Patricia Mooney-Melvin (560 KB)

Graduate Student Learning Outcomes at Master's and Doctoral Levels
Duane Larick (318 KB)

Building a Culture for Graduate Education at Master's Focused Institutions
Lawrence Fritz, Kathleen Long and Nan Yancey (715 KB)

Managing Budget Constraints While Achieving Access and Excellence
Andrew Comrie (1.12 MB)
Harry Richards (518 KB)

Technical Workshop Presentation

Completion and Attrition in AGEP and non-AGEP Institutions
Jeff Allum, Nathan Bell and Robert Sowell (132 KB)

Sponsored Breakfast Presentations

Presentation from Elsevier Breakfast
David Calto (4.12 MB)

Presentation from ProQuest UMI Breakfast
John Roberts (1.48 MB)