Evaluating Doctoral Education

Goal:
KU will prepare citizen scholars as innovators of knowledge ready to enter the workforce and take a leadership role in meeting the needs and demands of the academy and the global society.

Outcomes:

1. Rigorous data-based planning and accountability for doctoral education.
2. Establishment of standards for milestones, completion, time to degree, outcomes, and placement.
3. Mentoring of students to become professionals and scholars inside and outside academia.
4. Comprehensive and sustainable funding model for doctoral education.
5. Engagement of alumni, their employers, and other stakeholders in refining curriculum and extracurricular opportunities for doctoral students.
6. Increased diversity of graduate student body and of graduates.

• Elevating Doctoral Education
  • Roster (47 KB)
  • Final Work Group Report (743 KB)
  • Strategic Map (101 KB)

• January 13, 2011
  Agenda (53 KB)
  Minutes (114 KB)
  PowerPoint presentation (215 KB)
  Draft goals & characteristics (13 KB)
• February 4, 2011
  Agenda (119 KB)
  Minutes (25 KB)
• February 28, 2011
  Discussion Handout (86 KB)
  Minutes (26 KB)