Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences Issues for the 21st Century: Report of a Workshop (2000) / Chapter Skim
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Laren Tolbert, Georgia Institute of Technology: I have faculty members who literally tell their students not to go to a seminar because they don't want them out of the lab, even for something that is obviously part of their education. Karen demonstrated that graduate students have a lot more power than they give themselves credit for making things happen, and this is important.
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It is making sure that our population is fully employed. Lynmarie Posey, Michigan State University: We have heard a lot of discussion over the past day and a half about trying to broaden the background of graduate students, while maintaining some control over the length of the Ph.D.
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It can simply be anything that puts us in touch with the outside world and addresses how graduate school helped people to make the transition. Lynmarie Posey: I think the faculty response is to add courses, which then potentially increases the amount of time that students spend in graduate school.
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You have to decide what you want to do, what you need in order to do it, and then go after what you need. Members of the faculty are not the graduate students' enemies.
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Sally Chapman presented a view of a chair from a small undergraduate university and the pressures of being affiliated with Columbia, but a liberal arts college nonetheless. We had a lot of interactions with Eduardo Macagno as students, and, as the dean of the graduate school, he seemed to be promoting the idea of broadening the curriculum and of encouraging students to do things outside the classic program.
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There is a good deal for students to learn there. Communicating thesis work in a largely nontechnical way to trained scientists outside one's own field, avoiding the jargon, and yet communicating the substance can assist the interviewing process.
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