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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED174125 AUTHOR: Hellweg, Susan A.; Churchman, David A.
TITLE: Sponsored Research as a Solution to Four Pervasive
Problems in Graduate Education. AIR Forum 1979 Paper.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1979
NOTE: 11 p.; Paper presented at the Annual Forum of the
Association for Institutional Research (19th, San Diego,
California, May 13-17, 1979)
ABSTRACT: Four problems that will be of major concern to
academic institutions granting graduate degrees in the
coming decade and ways in which sponsored research can help
solve them are discussed. The four problems are defined as:
(1) the threat posed to research performed by faculty by
increased teaching loads; (2) the increasing lack of
opportunities for new graduates of doctoral programs to
join
faculties; (3) the continuing pressures that academic
institutions are under to increase the number of women and
minorities on their teaching staffs; and (4) the changing
employment prospects of students completing their graduate
degrees, and thus the skills they need to acquire. A five
point model is proposed which is designed to provide a
solution to each of these problems through the generation
of
sponsored research. The model incorporates practical
experience for students in their fields; use of grant
monies
to provide financial aid for students; active involvement
of
professors in research in their fields; release of tenured
faculty to do research and concomitant hiring of adjunct
faculty to broaden the range of ideas and course offerings;
and use of the adjunct faculty positions created with grant
money to increase the number of women and minority faculty
members. Examples of specific Federal funding programs
available to support such research endeavors are mentioned,
such as the National Science Foundation's Minority
Institutions Graduate Traineeship Program. (SW)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Affirmative-Action; Conference-Reports;
Faculty-Development; Faculty-Workload; Federal-Aid; Females
; Higher-Education; Internship-Programs; Minority-Groups;
Models-; Research-Problems; Sabbatical-Leaves
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *College-Faculty; *Graduate-Study; *Grants
; *Research-Opportunities; *Research-Projects
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