Posted By Adam Fagen,
Friday, October 14, 2011
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 The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and the Educational
Testing Service (ETS) have convened a commission of academic and industry
leaders to consider students’ pathways through graduate school and into
careers. The need to develop a highly skilled workforce was first addressed in
a 2010 landmark report The Path Forward:
The Future of Graduate Education in the United States. That report argued
that the nation’s future prosperity and ability to compete in the global
marketplace depends on producing graduate degree holders prepared to address
the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. One major unmet need the
report identified was that of understanding pathways through graduate school
into the world of professional occupations.
The new commission will guide a research effort addressing
issues such as graduate student knowledge of career options and how they learn
about them, the role of graduate programs and faculty in informing and guiding
students, and the career pathways that those with graduate degrees actually
follow. The commission will also help create a national conversation about why
understanding of these pathways is important.
The members of the Commission on Pathways through Graduate School and into Careers are listed below: - William D. Green, Chairman, Board of Directors, Accenture
- Stan Litow, President, IBM Foundation, and Senior Vice President, IBM
- Joseph Miller, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Office, Corning
- Russ Owen, President, Managed Services Sector, CSC
- Ron Townsend, Executive Vice President, Battelle Memorial Institute
- Patrick Osmer (Chair), Vice Provost and Dean, Graduate School, The Ohio State University
- Jeffery Gibeling, Dean, Graduate Studies, University of California, Davis
- Maureern Grasso, Dean, Graduate School, University of Georgia
- Freeman Hrabowski, President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Jean Morrison, Provost, Boston University
- Suzanne Ortega, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of North Carolina
- Teresa Sullivan, President, University of Virginia
- Lisa Tedesco, Dean, Laney Graduate School, Emory University
- James Wimbush, Dean, University Graduate School, Indiana University
- Kurt Landgraf (ex officio), President and Chief Executive Officer, Educational Testing Service
- Debra W. Stewart (ex officio), President, Council of Graduate Schools
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