Excellence in doctoral education: defining best practices

College Student Journal, June, 2007 by Marianne Di Pierro

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Footnotes

(1) For the purpose of this study, STEM fields were defined as follows: biological science, mathematics, statistics, engineering, chemistry, physics, geoscience.

(2) WMU is currently partnered with the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Wayne State University in an Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) grant, sponsored by the National Science Foundation for the purpose of increasing enrollment among underrepresented groups in the STEM fields. WMU is also a Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) Project Partner in the CGS Ph.D. Completion Project, the objective of which is the recruitment, retention and persistence of underrepresented doctoral students, especially in the STEM fields.